Welcome to your February update from The New Phytologist Foundation. This month we're thanking all the individuals that reviewed manuscripts for New Phytologist and Plants, People, Planet in 2025. Additionally, find out how you can help to shape our future Symposia, and discover Flora Obscura.
Thank you to our reviewers in 2025
We greatly appreciate the input of these individuals, which is crucial in maintaining the excellence of The New Phytologist Foundation's journals.
Learn more about reviewing in our short series of posts for 2025's Peer Review Week.
Call for New Phytologist Symposia proposals: 2028 onwards
Help to shape the New Phytologist Symposia series by suggesting topics for symposia to be held from 2028 onwards.
48th New Phytologist Symposium
Forest interactions
📅 13–16 October 2026
đź“Ť Leysin, Switzerland
Explore plant interactions in forest environments at all levels from micro- to macro-scales and across the whole spectrum of plant biology.
Over 20 invited speakers now confirmed.
Travel grant and abstract submission deadline: 20 May 2026
Discover Flora Obscura
Flora Obscura is a series of short articles highlighting extraordinary plant biology.
These articles offer insights into the biology of unusual plants (for example, parasitic or carnivorous plants and those with bizarre life histories or reproductive strategies) and their interactions (with other plants, animals or fungi, for example).
New Phytologist Symposia for 2027
49th New Phytologist Symposium
Biological timing in photosynthetic organisms
The meeting will focus on fundamental advances in photoperiodism, phenology and chronobiology of photosynthetic organisms.
50th New Phytologist Symposium
Evolution of plant mating systems
Explore the diversity of plant mating systems through integration of perspectives across evolutionary biology, genetics, ecology, physiology, and developmental biology.
51st New Phytologist Symposium
The past and future of plant domestication
Event: Next generation scientists
New Phytologist next generation scientists 2026
New Phytologist next generation scientists will return in 2026.
Applications will open in Spring 2026
47th New Phytologist Symposium
Extreme Heat: extending the thermal limits of life
Explore how extreme heat affects plants and other ectothermic organisms that underpin ecosystem productivity.
Registration is now full, register for the waiting list
News
124 years of New Phytologist
We’re celebrating the 124th anniversary of the publication of New Phytologist’s first issue with a look at some recent highlights.
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