Aaron Rashotte
@aaronrashotte.bsky.social
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Professor, cytokinin enthusiast, and all around plant person. https://rashottelab.auburn.edu
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RSVP to join the Dec 16th webinar and hear from the 2025 Arabidopsis Community Dissemination of Arabidopsis Knowledge Awardees! bit.ly/naascawards
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Very thankful for this award and really look forward to working with talented researches at JGI to make this project come to fruition
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Using machine learning to analyze gene expression data, @aaronrashotte.bsky.social of Auburn University will investigate how the plant hormone cytokinin maintains photosynthesis longer for increased biomass production.
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A headshot sits beside the researcher's name and affiliation, with the project title below: Deciphering cytokinin signaling cascades to prolong photosynthesis and boost yield
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Is there more on what these SWEET11 peaks are somewhere in the paper or the supplemental data?
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This is a great program. We started in in 2016 and it just gets better and better!
Check out some past fellows who are on Bluesky: @philcarella.bsky.social @mattbnt.bsky.social @psaima.bsky.social @fromani.bsky.social @sjb287.bsky.social @aribidopsis.bsky.social @cavycavs.bsky.social
plantaeofficial.bsky.social
📣 Are you a creative and articulate plant scientist looking to connect with other like-minded folks? Application is now open for the 2025-2026 Plantae Fellows program!🌱

👉 Learn more and apply by August 31! buff.ly/JqoDSHq

#plantscience
Image Text: Call for 2026 Plantae Fellows. Application Deadline: August 31, 2025. plantae.org/2025fellowsapp. Featuring the Plantae and Plantae Fellows logo on a Plantae-branded background.
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You know that thing when you are starting a new project and exploring the regulated genes, then you find a gene that you don't know regulated by what you work on. Then you look up the reference for it and it is your own paper from ~20 years ago.

Yeah, that happened today. - A real full circle event
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IPGSA 2025 is over, but there were many great talks and meetings with old and new plant hormone friends. See you all in Vienna if not sooner. #IPGSA
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Excited to head out to IPGSA and see lots of great science on plant hormones! The lab is busy making posters to show what we have all been doing.
ipgsa2025.bsky.social
It's in a few days! IPGSA 2025, the premier conference for research on ALL substances that regulate plant growth and responses to the environment: small molecules, phytohormones and peptide hormones. See you soon in Colorado! #IPGSA2025
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Forgot to add the Graphical Abstract for - Khanna et al 2025 - that sums up the questions we asked in this paper at a Physiological, Transcriptomic, Proteomic, and Cytokinin Hormone level.
Graphical Paper Abstract - What is the role of trans-Zeatin and its 7G and 9G conjugated forms in delaying leaf senescence in response to salt stress
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Very happy to have our latest multi-omics cytokinin work published - "trans-Zeatin N-glucosides Can Delay Salt Accelerated Leaf Senescence in Arabidopsis thaliana" in Plant Physiology and Biochemistry #cytokinin
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These are the types of reviews with commentary (Unanswered questions) that I really like seeing, as they combine expert opinions with what we don't know - and should be working on!
jxbotany.bsky.social
🧬 🌱 🔬 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🔬 🌱🧬

❓5️⃣ unaddressed questions about cytokinin biosynthesis

Hitoshi Sakakibara delves into the mysteries of the cytokinin world - from lonely guy-independent pathways to the elusive cis-zeatin synthesis 🌿🧭

📖 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

#PlantScience 🧪
Figure 2 legend: Schematic representation of the metabolic flow of cytokinins at the subcellular level. IPTs (blue) localize in plastids, mitochondria, and the cytosol, and CYP735A (pink) localizes to the endoplasmic reticulum membrane. LOG (orange) localizes in the cytosol. Transport systems for cytokinin precursors to plastids and mitochondria have not been identified. Solid arrows represent metabolic flow, and the dashed line represents recognition by cytokinin sensory histidine kinase AHK. 1, phosphatase;?, indicates an unidentified transporter; AK, adenosine kinase; CPN, cytokinin/purine riboside nucleosidase; CYP735A, cytochrome P450 monooxygenase 735A; GY3, 5'-ribonucleotide phosphohydrolase grain yield 3; IPT, adenosine phosphate-isopentenyltransferase; LOG, cytokinin riboside 5'-monophosphate phosphoribohydrolase lonely guy.
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Wrapped up a great ASPB Southern Section meeting - full of amazing Talks and Posters. Thanks to all that helped make it a success! #ASPB #PlantScience #SS-ASPB
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Really enjoying the Science at the SS-ASPB conference in Raleigh this weekend #PlantScience #ASPB #SS-ASPB
SS-ASPB conference presentation
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Please come join us! This meeting is a great place to have graduate students give talks. Abstract and Travel Award deadlines - Monday the 17th!
aspbofficial.bsky.social
📣 Join ASPB’s Southern Section on March 28-30, 2025, in NC State University, Raleigh, NC!🌱

Learn more and register soon 👉 https://southern.aspb.org/!

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86th Annual Southern Section Meeting. Kriton Hatzios Symposium Theme: Gravitropism. March 28-30th, 2025 Raleigh, NC. Feb 17th – Submit abstract to be considered for a talk. March 1st – Early Registration Ends. https://southern.aspb.org. Featuring ASPB logo on themed-background.
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ASPB "remains committed to robustly supporting and strongly advocating for diversity and inclusion in the plant sciences, period."

Read full statement 👉 https://blog.aspb.org/aspb-reaffirms-its-commitment-to-diversity-and-inclusion/.
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Daily campus walk for physical health, now more important for mental health
Campus nature walk
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plantphys.bsky.social
The physiological and molecular responses of potato tuberization to projected future elevated temperatures (Abigail M Guillemette, Guillian Hernández Casanova, John P Hamilton, Eva Pokorná, Petre I Dobrev, Václav Motyka, Aaron M Rashotte, Courtney P Leisner) https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiae664
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Please share! Nominate your Arabidopsis community colleagues, trainees (or yourself) by January 31! Open to people working with Arabidopsis from all parts of the world. Only nominees that advance to round 2 are required to have a full nomination package submitted: bit.ly/3DtjNEi
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Today's finding of Cytokinin action in the wild - in a "green island" on a leaf
Leaf Green Island
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Enjoyable senescing leaf from today's walk
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TAIR is and has been an amazing indispensable website, which I still use weekly if not daily to go look up gene function or something else. 🐐 #plantscience
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TAIR officially turned 25 on October 1, 2024! Read our blog post covering the highlights from the last 25 years. tinyurl.com/TAIR25
Infographic and timeline of TAIR's 25 year history
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Check out this announcement for a fantastic meeting on plant hormones #plantscience
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The email announcement of International Plant Growth Substances Association (IPGSA) Conference in 2025 in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA is just out! Please spread the word of what will be a very exciting conference in a beautiful place. #IPGSA2025
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Since we are reintroducing ourselves. My lab and I have been working on understanding the role of the plant hormone cytokinin (including N-conjugated forms) and CRFs (Cytokinin Response Factors) in senescence and abiotic stress.
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OK, I am making the move. Maybe a little late, but am looking forward to being here.