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Juice sac granulation is a common and economically damaging disorder in citrus production…

YouTube video by Dr. Maryna Kuzmenko

Food Dive reports on an attempt by Mars to keep chocolate affordable and make your M&Ms CRISPR.

This is a very interesting Perspective article by Barry et al. that should be of interest to anyone who has benefitted from Indigenous Knowledges or who teaches about scientific writing. The authors…

We are putting our spotlight in this section on how secondary cell walls acquire the precise shape, structure, and polarity necessary for explosive seed dispersal in the small weed Cardamine hirsuta.

You moved to a different country to do your PhD. You are navigating a new language, a complex academic system, and a life far from family and friends. After six months of failed attempts…

The bid to understand long distance Ca2+ signaling patterns in co-ordinating whole-plant responses to systemic or induced defense have been scarce in soil-grown plants mainly due to limitations of…

Kalenchoe plants, sometimes called “Mother of Thousands” are instantly recognizable by the abundance of little plantlets that form on their leaf margins. Kalenchoe daigremontiana is probably the most…

Join UNESCO on 11 February 2026 for a global event celebrating women in science and shaping a future where science and gender equality advance together

Plant science drives the future of sustainable agriculture, climate resilience, and food security. Yet, the impact of plant science research remains invisible to the public eyes, and we call this…

This is the last edition of PSRW before the new year. Although we have spent the past year celebrating the breakthroughs in plant science, I am going to end on a more sober note…

Abstract. Phytophthora theobromicola is an emerging cacao pathogen recently identified in Brazil as an aggressive agent of black pod rot. We generated geno

There is ample evidence for the impacts of plant microbiomes to plant growth and metabolism, but there are also challenges to obtaining reproducible data. In a first of its kind multi-laboratory…

A message from Silvia Restrepo, President, Boyce Thompson Institute As the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) embarks on our second century of plant science innovation, I’m deeply honored to announce the…

At the height of the Covid pandemic, epidemiologists carried out mass sequencing of the circulating virus populations to track their movements and the emergence of new variants.

Think about the wildest imagination you have had – what if the right technology was available to make it possible? For farmers and plant scientists working long hours in the field…

This article, we will shed light on how changes in science policies over the years have helped evolve a new generation of women scientists…

In the ever-evolving landscape of scientific research and academia, women from developing countries are breaking barriers and redefining success…

This community blog harbors personal viewpoints on how to navigate parenthood and academia from two perspectives, one a current academic parent and another future academic parent. As a female…

The Decline of Classical Botany Though many of us may recognize the word ‘botany’, we may also associate it with dusty books and 18th century science. ‘Botany’ is not used frequently in our…