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ArticleeLife2025

Making conferences in the plant sciences more inclusive through community recommendations.

Marcia Puig-Lluch, Mary Williams, Eric Wada, Imeña Valdes, Carrie Tribble, Andrew Read, Kanwardeep S Rawale, Chelsea L Newbold, Bathabile Mthombeni, Michael Moody and 18 more

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Article in eLife, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Building a diverse and inclusive plant science community.Journal of experimental botany · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

28 authors.

Marcia Puig-LluchROOT & SHOOT Research Coordination Network, Rockville, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0009-4063-2364
Mary WilliamsAmerican Society of Plant Biologists, Rockville, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4447-7815
Eric WadaFolsom Lake College, Folsom, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0003-6928-0776
Imeña ValdesChicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0003-4209-0331
Carrie TribbleUniversity of Washington, Seattle, United States.
Andrew ReadUniversity of Minnesota, Saint Paul, United States.
Kanwardeep S RawaleGeneshifters, Pullman, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3894-4712
Chelsea L NewboldPennsylvania State University, University Park, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2765-1503
Bathabile MthombeniUntangled Resolutions, Binghamton, United States.
Michael MoodyBotanical Society of America (BSA), St. Louis, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0327-267X
Laura MineroAlchemy Psychology Colectivo Inc, Los Angeles, United States.
Annarita MarranoROOT & SHOOT Research Coordination Network, Rockville, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9560-2706
Melanie Link-PerezWisconsin State Herbarium, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5435-5750
Roger W InnesIndiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9634-1413
Cody Coyotee HowardOklahoma State University, Stillwater, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7662-9102
Adriana HernandezCornell University, Ithaca, United States.
Corri HamiltonUniversity of Missouri, Columbia, United States.
Denita HadziabdicUniversity of Tennessee, Knoxville, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1991-2563
Morgan GostelBotanical Research Institute of Texas, Fort Worth, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3169-627X
Joanna FriesnerNorth American Arabidopsis Steering Committee, Corvallis, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6799-7808
John E FowlerOregon State University, Corvallis, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9254-5934
Mindy FindlaterUniversity of California, Merced, Merced, United States.
Sakina ElshibliUniversity of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3292-1029
Steven J BurgessUniversity of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2353-7794
Hank W BassPlant biologist, Rockville, United States.
Burcu AlptekinUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States.
R Shawn AbrahamsUniversity of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, United States.
Patricia BaldrichUniversity of California, Davis, Davis, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4669-6632

Funding

National Science Foundation DBI-2134321
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An unwelcoming climate and culture at scientific conferences is an obstacle to retaining scientists with marginalized identities. Here we describe how a number of professional societies in the plant sciences, mostly based in the United States, collaborated on a project called ROOT & SHOOT (short for Rooting Out Oppression Together and SHaring Our Outcomes Transparently) to make conferences in the field more inclusive. The guidelines we developed, and our efforts to implement them in 2023 and 2024, are summarized here to assist other conference organizers with creating more inclusive conferences.

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BotanyCongresses as TopicHumansUnited Statesdiversityequityinclusionnoneplant biologyresearch culturescientific conferences

Identifiers

PMID40833388
PMCPMC12367295

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