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Thank you to everyone who joined us at the XXI SMB Plant Biology Congress & 4th ASPB Mexico Section Meeting! 🌿 Your enthusiasm made this a global celebration of plant science and collaboration. 🌱 #SMBPlant2025 More pics on our Facebook pages!

🌿 Zachary Lippman (CSHL) shared new insights into how plant stem cell networks evolve, driving hidden genetic complexity and shaping traits in nature and agriculture. #SMBPlant2025

🌾 Azalea Guerra (Cinvestav Irapuato) discussed the genetic diversity of orphan crops and their wild relatives, emphasizing their importance for building resilient agroecosystems. #SMBPlant2025

From history to data science 🌿 — Dan Chitwood (MSU) explored Mexican plant iconography and Indigenous knowledge through the De la Cruz–Badiano Nahuatl Herbal (1552). #SMBPlant2025

Damien Formey (CCG-UNAM) showed the new platform Phabase with a High-Quality Genome Assembly of Phaseolus vulgaris cv. Negro Jamapa

🌿 In his talk “One Call, Many Responses,” Ken Birnbaum (New York University) discussed how plants decode auxin signals in a cell-specific manner to coordinate growth and development. #SMBPlant2025

Minerva Trejo (Institute of Science and Technology, Austria) discussed how evolutionary information from genomic and epigenomic databases can be leveraged to reconstruct DNA methylation systems. 🔬 #SMBPlant2025

Day 2 of #SMBPlant2025 opened with an inspiring keynote by Dr. Alejandra Covarrubias (IBT-UNAM, Mexico) highlighting the crucial roles of LEA proteins in plant responses to drought and water limitation. 💧

An excellent opening keynote by Dr. Siobhan Brady (UC Davis) on how roots integrate environmental signals, reinforce barriers with suberin and lignin, and engage soil microbes to boost stress tolerance. 🌿 #SMBPlant2025

Our pre-congress workshops — Plants & Python, Genome Editing, and Plants of the Future — set the tone for an exciting week at #SMBPlant2025! 🌿

After months of preparation, the XXI SMB Plant Biology Congress and 4th ASPB Mexico Section Meeting officially began with 300 participants!! #SMBPlant2025

🌱 Don’t miss the Workshop on Plant Genome Editing at the SMB XXI Plant Biology Congress! 🗓 Oct 20, 2025 📍 Mérida, Yucatán 🔬 Sponsored by AMSAC – Mexican Seed Association 👉 es.surveymonkey.com/r/8BF9GPX #SMBPlantBiology2025 #GenomeEditing #AMSAC

🚨Registration for poster presentation at the XXI Plant Biology Congress in Mérida closes TOMORROW, August 29! Don't miss Azalea Guerra, Keiko Torii, Bob Van Buren, and Dan Chitwood 🌱 👉 Register now: smbplant.quimica.unam.mx #SMBPlant2025 #PlantScience #Mérida2025

📢 You can still register for the XXI Plant Biology Congress 🌿 in Mérida until August 29! Don’t miss Tzvetanka Dinkova, Marisa Otegui & Cyril Zipfel 🌱 👉 Register now: smbplant.quimica.unam.mx #SMBPlant2025 #PlantScience #Mérida2025

We have registration fellowships available for the #SMBPlant2025! Email smbplantbiologycongress@gmail.com Include: ✅ Subject: “Registration fellowship application” ✅ Reason to attend ✅ Abstract ✅ Proof of student status ⏰ Deadline: August 7, 2025 🌿 Join us in Mérida!

🚨 Abstract deadline extended! Submit to #SMBPlant2025 by July 8 🌿 Join us in Mérida this Oct 20–24 and present your science! 🧬 Submit here: smbplant.quimica.unam.mx #PlantBiology #CallForAbstracts #ExtendedDeadline

Don’t miss Sue Rhee (@SueRhee2) at #SMBPlant2025! She’s leading global efforts to develop sustainable solutions for agriculture using genomics, chemistry & AI 🌱 📍 Mérida, Oct 20–24 🔗 smbplant.quimica.unam.mx

🎙️Meet your speakers at #SMBPlant2025! Jean-Michel Ané @UWMadison will talk about Biological Nitrogen Fixation on the Aerial Roots of Maize & Sorghum 🌽🌱 Join us in Mérida this October! 🔗 smbplant.quimica.unam.mx

Don’t miss out! 🌱🧬 Join us at the XXI @SMB Plant Biology Congress / 4th @ASBPMexico in Mérida, Oct 20–24! 🚀 Cutting-edge science, top speakers & networking 🎟️ Early bird registration is still open! 🔗 smbplant.quimica.unam.mx #SMBPlant2025

Really excited to have been part of the @SMBPlant2023, where I connected with brilliant minds! . Grateful for the opportunity to share knowledge and explore new horizons in plant-related innovations! Thanks to LHE lab for support my MSc. project! #SMBPlant2023 #plantscience 🌿✨