This action funds an NSF Plant Genome Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology for FY 2025. The fellowship supports a research and training plan in a host laboratory for the Fellow who also presents a plan to broaden participation in biology. The title of the research and training plan for this fellowship to Ronald James Myers Jr. is “Investigating Rapid Spatial Metabolomic Responses in Local and Systemic Plant Tissue Following Stress Sensation”. The host institution for the fellowship is the University of Missouri-Columbia and the sponsoring scientist is Dr. Lloyd W. Sumner. Plants frequently encounter rapidly changing conditions within their environment that have the potential to cause substantial damage. These conditions can encompass numerous environmental factors, such as large temperature fluctuations, changes in water availability, light intensity, and combinations of multiple environmental alterations. When these changes are extreme, these factors have historically resulted in substantial monetary losses for the agricultural industry and have impacted food availability due to resulting detrimental effects on plant growth, yield, and survival. Understanding the processes through which plants rapidly respond to environmental stress is key for the development of new strategies with the potential to reduce and mitigate crop losses. This research aims to increase plant resiliency against rapidly changing environmental conditions using a combination of approaches from