New Phytologist Editors’ Choice

 

Launched in October 2014, New Phytologist Editors’ Choice pieces are short, accessible, personal perspectives on an article chosen and endorsed by a New Phytologist Editor. We are not commissioning new Editors' Choice pieces at the moment, but you can browse the archive of Editors' Choice pieces and selected articles below.

 


 

Editors' Choice March 2017, 213:4

The New Phytologist Tansley Medal by Liam Dolan, Tansley reviews Editor, New Phytologist

Selected paper: Below-ground frontiers in trait-based plant ecology

 

 

Editors' Choice November 2016, 212:3

Plant senescence by Sarah Lennon, Managing Editor, New Phytologist

Selected paper: Introduction to a Virtual Issue on Plant senescence

 

 

Editors' Choice April 2016, 210:1

The New Phytologist Tansley Medal by Liam Dolan, Tansley reviews Editor, New Phytologist

Selected paper: A new look at stress: abscisic acid patterns and dynamics at high-resolution.

 

 

Editors' Choice March 2016, 209:4

Plant volatiles by Sarah Lennon, Managing Editor, New Phytologist

Selected paper: Introduction to a Virtual Special Issue on plant volatiles.

 

 

Editors' Choice January 2016, 209:1

Ozone, VOCs, and pollinator attraction by David Ackerly, New Phytologist

Selected paper: Ozone degrades floral scent and reduces pollinator attraction to flowers.

 

 

Editors' Choice Archive 2015 (click here to show list)

Editors' Choice December 2015, 208:4

Photosynthetic bark by Nate G. McDowell, Editor, New Phytologist

Selected paper: The benefits of recycling: how photosynthetic bark can increase drought tolerance.

 

 

Editors' Choice October 2015, 208:1

Plant synthetic biology by Sarah Lennon, Managing Editor, New Phytologist

Selected papers: Standards for plant synthetic biology: a common syntax for exchange of DNA parts.; An introduction to synthetic biology in plant systems :ERASynBio/OpenPlant summer school for early career researchers, September 2014.; Profile: Anne Osbourn.

An introduction to synthetic biology in plant systems: ERASynBio/OpenPlant summer school for early career researchers, September 2014. - See more at: https://www.newphytologist.org/news/view/102#sthash.tLFIaSzf.dpuf
Standards for plant synthetic biology: a common syntax for exchange of DNA parts. - See more at: https://www.newphytologist.org/news/view/102#sthash.tLFIaSzf.dpuf
 

 

Editors' Choice August 2015, 207:3

´Selfie´ DNA: friend or foe by Amy T. Austin, Editor, New Phytologist

Selected paper: Self-DNA: a blessing in disguise?

Self-DNA: a blessing in disguise?
 

 

Editors' Choice July 2015, 207:2

Rain forest radiations in the Amazon by Colin Hughes, Reto Nyffeler and Peter Linder, Guest Editors, New Phytologist

Selected paper: Recently evolved diversity and convergent radiations of rain forest mahoganies (Meliaceae) shed new light on the origins of rain forest hyperdiversity.

 

 

Editors' Choice June 2015, 206:4
Root biochemistry, root traits, and soil carbon – making the links - See more at: https://www.newphytologist.org/news/view/87#sthash.zU7EsOar.dpuf

Root biochemistry, root traits, and soil carbon – making the links by Richard Norby, Editor, New Phytologist

Selected paper: Phenolic profile within the fine root branching orders of an evergreen species highlights a disconnect in root tissue quality predicted by elemental- and molecular-level carbon composition.

 

 

Editors' Choice April 2015, 206:2

Septoria leaf blotch disease in wheat by Alistair Hetherington, Editor-in-Chief, and Sarah Lennon, Managing Editor, New Phytologist

Selected paper: Functional analysis of a Wheat Homeodomain protein, TaR1, reveals that host chromatin remodelling influences the dynamics of the switch to necrotrophic growth in the phytopathogenic fungus Zymoseptoria tritici.

 

 

Editors' Choice April 2015, 206:1

Chemical mimicry and Aristolochia by André Kessler, Editor New Phytologist

Selected paper: The betrayed thief – the extraordinary strategy of Aristolochia rotunda to deceive its pollinators.

 

 

Editors’ Choice March 2015, 205:4

Mycorrhizal fungal community composition: host identity and ecosystem development by Maarja Öpik, Editor New Phytologist

Selected paper: Host identity is a dominant driver of mycorrhizal fungal community composition during ecosystem development.

 

 

Editors’ Choice February 2015, 205:3

The New Phytologist Tansley Medal 2014 by Sarah Lennon, Managing Editor New Phytologist

 

 

 

Editors’ Choice January 2015, 205:2

Transcriptional targeting branches out by Elena Kramer, Editor New Phytologist

Selected paper: The Populus ARBORKNOX1 homeodomain transcription factor regulates woody growth through binding to evolutionary conserved target genes of diverse function.

 

 

Editors' Choice: January 2015, 205:1

Kin recognition in plants by John Christie, Editor New Phytologist

Selected paper: Photoreceptor-mediated kin recognition in plants.

 

Editors' Choice Archive 2014 (click here to show list)

 

Editors’ Choice: December 2014, 204:4

Land use and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal (AMF) diversity by Maarja Öpik, Editor New Phytologist.

Selected paper: Land use influences arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in the farming–pastoral ecotone of northern China.

 

 

Editors’ Choice: November 2014, 204:3

New clues to the molecular basis of vegetative regeneration in plants by Andrew Groover, Editor, New Phytologist.

Selected paper: Irrepressible MONOPTEROS/ARF 5 promotes de novo shoot formation.

 

 

Editors' Choice: October 2014, 204:2

Connecting the dots in jasmonate signalling by Amy T. Austin, Editor, New Phytologist and Carlos L. Ballaré, Guest Editor, New Phytologist.

Selected paper: The squeeze cell hypothesis for the activation of jasmonate synthesis in response to wounding.