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Crop diversity needed today for tomorrow’s food security and nutrition

Although scientists have been sounding the alarm about the decline of crop diversity in agriculture for more than a century, questions about the magnitude, causes, and significance of this loss remain unanswered.   18 months ago, 15 s...

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We're recruiting a Finance and Operations Manager

The New Phytologist Foundation is seeking to recruit a Finance and Operations Manager. Reporting to the Executive Editor, the Finance and Operations Manager’s primary role will be to lead the financial management / control and office ad...

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Global Tree Assessment – special issue call for papers!

Trees form forested ecosystems and tree species composition and richness determine ecosystem properties. The conservation status of these tree species is therefore of key importance to planning resilient management strategies and prioritising acti...

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Call for papers: Fruit in focus

  From the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden, to thousands of years pressing grapes into wine, to the role of citrus in combating scurvy on long sea voyages, fruit have played an important role in shaping human history and cultur...

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Join our team!

The New Phytologist Foundation is seeking an enthusiastic and proactive individual to join our team as Forum Editor for New Phytologist. This post holder will take ownership of the Forum section of the journal; tasked specifically with develo...

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New Phytologist celebrates publication of over 1200 reviews

On what would have been the 150th birthday of the journal's founder, Sir Arthur Tansley, New Phytologist celebrates the publication of over 1200 reviews.   Many of these are from the journal's flagship Tansley series...

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100 questions for the future of plant science

Overlooked at our peril, plants, and the benefits they provide, are fundamental to human existence and life on this planet. Plant scientists at the University of Bristol, with support from leading plant science journal, New Phytologist, want to di...

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Epigenetics: a new way to improve drought tolerance in trees

The frequency of droughts is set to increase with climate change. To slow the decline of forests that we're already seeing, we need to better understand drought tolerance mechanisms in trees. Scientists from several institutions have studied t...

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New study sheds light on evolution of photosynthesis

The authors of a Tansley insight recently published in New Phytologist reviewed research on the photosynthetic amoeba Paulinella, which is a model to explore a fundamental question about eukaryote evolution: why was there a single origin of algae ...

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The birds and the bees: changing pollinators in the mountains

Pollinators such as bees, butterflies, bats and birds have contributed significantly to the creation of the great diversity of flowering plants. Closely related plant species can often have different pollination systems. For example, one plant spe...

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