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The New Phytologist Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the promotion of plant science. We own two journals: New Phytologist, and Plants, People, Planet. Our activities range from funding symposia and workshops, to sponsoring prizes for early career researchers, to ensuring free access for a wide range of published research articles.
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Where can a plant take you?Herbaria 3.0 (www.herbaria3.org), is a collaborative digital environmental humanities project that offers a platform for sharing the stories of plants and people. Herbaria 3.0 explores how the stories we tell about plants illuminate the intertwined nature of humans and plants.Nonna's Garden and Dad's Hedge are a sample of…
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Where can a plant take you?Herbaria 3.0 (www.herbaria3.org), is a collaborative digital environmental humanities project that offers a platform for sharing the stories of plants and people. Herbaria 3.0 explores how the stories we tell about plants illuminate the intertwined nature of humans and plants.Nonna's Garden and Dad's Hedge are a sample of…
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Harry Shearer features a recent paper about tropical tree mortality by Nate McDowell on @leshowharryshearer.Read more about the research:https://www.newphytologist.org/blog/increasing-tree-mortality-in-a-warming-world/Read the paper: https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.15027Listen to the full show: https://soundcloud.com/leshowharryshearer/le-show-with-har…
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Sascha Ismail and Chris Kettle describe their recent New Phytologist paper, 'Evaluating realised seed dispersal across fragmented tropical landscapes: a two-fold approach using parentage analysis and the neighbourhood model', their careers, and top tips for early career researchers.Read the paper: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.1442…
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Sascha Ismail and Chris Kettle describe their recent New Phytologist paper, 'Evaluating realised seed dispersal across fragmented tropical landscapes: a two-fold approach using parentage analysis and the neighbourhood model', their careers, and top tips for early career researchers.Read the paper: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.1442…
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In the second of our two-part series, Editor-in-Chief Alistair Hetherington describes how to best navigate the submission and peer review process.Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IZgTyrxMD4Listen to part one: https://soundcloud.com/new-phytologist/publishing-in-new-phytologist-part-oneRead New Phytologist: http://nph.onlinelibrary…
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Editor-in-Chief Alistair Hetherington describes how you can decide whether your work is suitable for publication in New Phytologist.Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kHYwSHGjpwListen to part two: https://soundcloud.com/new-phytologist/publishing-in-new-phytologist-part-two-submission-and-peer-reviewRead New Phytologist: http://nph.…
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"There are three important qualities in a good scientist: dedication, communication, and openness."Prof Francis Martin is Section Editor for the Interaction section of New Phytologist. Listen to the interview to find out what he thinks the hot topics in plant-soil interactions are, and his advice for early career researchers.…
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'Don't be put off if your experiment doesn't seem to have worked if you're doing experiments, or if your data doesn't seem to fit - that's probably going to be the most interesting thing that you've done so far.'Listen to our interview with Prof Colin Brownlee to find out how he became interested in plant science and hear his tips for early career …
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'Pursue questions that really interest you, do things that you like to do - I think that that's the best advice - because if you can maintain that enthusiasm, if you really maintain the joy in what you're doing in science, that will transmit itself into a successful career.'Professor Amy Austin, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, is an Editor f…
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Etienne Laliberté, winner of the 2016 New Phytologist Tansley Medal for excellence in plant science, describes how he became interested in plant science, the thought process behind his Tansley insight 'Below-ground frontiers in trait-based plant ecology', the hot topics in the field and his advice for early-career researchers.Read Etienne's Tansley…
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"I think one of the most exciting results of the paper is the clear phenotype. When you are doing an experiment in the greenhouse and you harvest the plants, you really see a very strong effect when the plants are colonised by beneficial microbes."New Phytologist author Ainhoa Martínez-Medina tells us why a fungus might not be such a bad thing for …
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"Be curious, be passionate, and learn from people around you. Trust your curiosity and let it be your teacher."New Phytologist Editor Maarja Öpik talks about her work in plant science and plant-fungi interactions, describes why she became a scientist, and provides some advice for early-career researchers.Recorded at the 38th New Phytologist Symposi…
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"My advice for early career researchers: once you've written a manuscript, ask friends and colleagues, particularly those outside your field, to have a look at it."Editor-in-Chief, Alistair Hetherington, talks about his role at the journal, what makes a great paper, why you should submit your manuscript to New Phytologist, and some tips for early c…
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New Phytologist Editor Mark Rausher received the Sewall Wright Award at the 2016 Evolution Conference in Austin, Texas. Our Development Coordinator Mike Whitfield caught up with Mark to find out more about the award, Mark's career in plant science and evolutionary biology, and his advice for early career researchers.Visit the New Phytologist Trust …
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New Phytologist Editor Keith Lindsey in conversation with Geraint Parry for the Arabidopsis Research Roundup (http://blog.garnetcommunity.org.uk/arabidopsis-research-roundup-3/). Keith describes work that aims to dissect the complex hormonal regulation of root growth, published in an Open Access paper by Rowe, et al.:Rowe JH, Topping JF, Liu J, Lin…
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An interview with Dr Alexander Jones of the Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge University, UK, and winner of the 2015 New Phytologist Tansley Medal for excellence in plant science. In this interview, Alexander describes his research on the role of phytohormones in plant cell physiology and development, and how he was inspired to revisit an old questio…
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New Phytologist Editor Dr Amy Austin was recently awarded the L’Oréal-UNESCO prize for Women in Science in Argentina, for her project ‘Effects of afforestation on carbon and nitrogen cycling in natural ecosystems of Patagonia, Argentina’. Amy is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Agronomy at the University of Buenos Aires, a Principal Researc…
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Interview with Hua Wang (Université Toulouse, France) at the 26th New Phytologist Symposium (May 2011, Nancy, France) www.newphytologist.org/symposiums/view/10Hua was a poster prize winner at the symposium. Her poster was entitled 'Studies of auxin responses mediators in wood formation in Eucalyptus'. In the interview she discusses her research int…
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Interview with Oana Dima (Ghent University, Belgium) at the 26th New Phytologist Symposium (May 2011, Nancy, France) www.newphytologist.org/symposiums/view/10Oana was a poster prize winner at the symposium. Her poster was entitled 'Profiling and localization of phenolics in Arabidopsis lignin mutants'. In the interview she discusses her research in…
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Interview with Stéphane Maury (Université d'Orléans, France) at the 26th New Phytologist Symposium (May 2011, Nancy, France) www.newphytologist.org/symposiums/view/10Stéphane was a poster prize winner at the symposium. His poster was entitled 'Epigenomics in poplar: the methylome of non-condensed chromatin'. In the interview he discusses his resear…
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Interview with former New Phytologist Editor Steve Strauss (Oregon State University, USA) at the 26th New Phytologist Symposium on Bioenergy Trees (May 2011, Nancy, France) www.newphytologist.org/symposiums/view/10Listen to hear some excellent advice for early career scientists on presentating a poster at a scientific conference, and what makes a g…
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Interview with Francis Martin (INRA, France), at the 26th New Phytologist Symposium (May, 2011)
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Interview with New Phytologist Interaction Section Editor Francis Martin, (INRA, France) who was the lead organiser at the 26th New Phytologist Symposium on Bioenergy Trees (May 2011, Nancy, France) http://www.newphytologist.org/symposiums/view/10Francis discusses his highlights from the symposium, the importance of encouraging early career scienti…
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Interview with New Phytologist Editor-in-Chief Alistair Hetherington (University of Bristol, UK) from July 2012. Alistair discusses his career and his long-serving relationship with New Phytologist resulting in his appointment as Editor-in-Chief.Alistair discusses his research and its implications for environment change and food security. He also l…
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An interview with the winner of the 2014 Tansley Medal for excellence in plant science, Dr William R. L. Anderegg of Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. William discusses his research and how it contributes to our understanding of the effects of climate change. He goes on to tell us how the spark for his research was seeing that the forests h…
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