Excited to announce this Friday’s seminar speaker will be Dr. Mason Heberling (Mason Heberling) Associate Curator of Botany at Carnegie Museum of Natural History ! Join us at 10:45 to hear about how museum specimens can teach us about the living world 🌿🍂🔎

Some giant clusters of very copper tolerant Nepenthes fusca seen here.

Not all translucent galls are acidic. 🤷‍♂️ I tested the gall of Neuroterus quercusbaccarum and its pH is 5. I lost my bet that it could be another acid gall. #gall #gallwasp

Thrilled to share this study by Jacob Suissa, Fay-Wei Li 李飛葦, and me published today in Nature Communications "Convergent evolution of fern nectaries facilitated independent recruitment of ant-bodyguards from flowering plants" nature.com/articles/s4146…

Two epic talks by MSU botanist, Madison Plunkert and Kadeem Gilbert on rhizomes and leaf ph modulation respectively #botany2024 🌱

#botany2024 was a reunion of the great friends and colleagues I’ve been lucky to have from grad school and beyond! Super shoutout to Kadeem Gilbert, 闵娅 (Min Ya | Minya), PhD, Renner Lab and Jacob Suissa ❤️❤️

Big shoutout to our trivia winners at #PlantBio2024…. THE PLANTAHOLICS!! CONGRATULATIONS AGAIN!!! Thank you to everyone who joined us for another unforgettable ECPS Trivia Night! 🤩🌸🥳

🙏We are hiring, Please share🙏 Our lab in the Dept of Entomology at National Taiwan University is looking for motivated Postdocs/PhD students interested in plant-insect interactions (start date flexible). Plz contact [email protected] with your CV attached. Thanks😄

I had a great time birding at the Kellogg Biological Station LTER for the Kellogg Birding Buddies! With Nasser Mohammed (Rabi) Nick Haddad Kadeem Gilbert and others!

The MSU Plant Resilience Institute is excited to announce the hiring of Dr. Andrea Glassmire as an Assistant Professor! Dr. Glassmire will hold joint appointments in the departments of Plant Biology and MSU Entomology. Read the full story here: plantresilience.msu.edu/pri-news/pri-w…

We're thrilled to announce the publication of the Plant Resilience Institute 2023-2024 Annual Report! 🌱 Read about the PRI members, events, and programs that made this past year unforgettable. Together, we are PRI. plantresilience.msu.edu/about/annual-r…

How do domatia develops? Fun work w Nat Walker-Hale, Peter Etchells, Eleanore J. Ritter, @weber_mg ! We describe the morphological and phylogenetic diversity of these structures and speculate about how these key, often complex mutualistic traits develop sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Plant and agricultural sciences must make rapid and significant changes to ensure global food security in the face of climate change, according to a MSU Plant Resilience Institute-led international group of plant researchers. Read the story: plantresilience.msu.edu/pri-news/MSU-p…

Given the rapid pace of climate change, innovative solutions for #plantresilience are crucial to ensure global food security. Read more about the urgency of advancing plant resilience in this MSU PRI-led article for free for a limited time: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kDGg4rGdjaO…

Construction costs and tradeoffs in carnivorous pitcher plant leaves: towards a pitcher leaf economic spectrum Really enjoyed being part of this. Expertly lead by Kadeem Gilbert Please read and comment :) Loughborough Geography and Environment Loughborough University ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

In a collaborative PRI Seed Grant project, two MSU #plantbiology graduate students have teamed up to investigate how plants’ natural defense mechanisms can be leveraged to help improve crop resilience. Read the full Q&A story: plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/posts/012025_m…

Our paper on a chromosome-level genome of the carnivorous #butterwort plant #Pinguicula gigantea and other species is now published on bioRxiv ! Exciting to get this project close to done 😀 See the preprint here: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

CSEE SCEE Meetings CSEE_SCEE Kadeem Gilbert from MSU closes the Phyllosphere Symposium 🍃🍁🌳🌱 Kadeem argues that🍃phylloplane pH varies across plant species and it could be an adaptive trait of the plants, allowing them to influence their associations with microbes. #CSEE2025 CSEE SCEE Meetings CSEE_SCEE