Welcome to your March update from The New Phytologist Foundation. This month, submit your abstract for our symposium on forest interactions, discover Community resources in New Phytologist, and check out some of the events we're supporting this year.
48th New Phytologist Symposium
Forest interactions
📅 13–16 October 2026
📍 Leysin, Switzerland
Explore plant interactions in forest environments at all levels from micro- to macro-scales and across the whole spectrum of plant biology.
Submit your abstract to be considered for an oral or poster presentation. A limited number of travel grants and fee waivers will be awarded to accepted oral and poster presenters. Find out how to apply for a travel grant.
Travel grant and abstract submission deadline: 20 May 2026
New Phytologist Editor-in-Chief Symposium 2026
📅 3 July 2026
📍 Oecologicum, University of Tartu, Estonia
Our annual New Phytologist Editor-in-Chief Symposium will be held on Friday 3 July 2026 at the University of Tartu, home institution of New Phytologist’s Editor-in-Chief Maarja Öpik.
The New Phytologist Editor-in-Chief symposia aim to provide an annual forum for researchers to share their work on all topics across the broad scope of New Phytologist.
New Phytologist next generation scientists meetings are free events with the unique aim to provide the next generation of plant scientists a chance to share their work with their peers and outstanding international scientists in a stimulating, supportive and exciting environment.
Applications open soon!
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New Phytologist Community resources
Community resources provide a detailed methodological overview of a topic or to report a project or dataset that will be of significant use and interest to the plant science community.
Community resources are part of the New Phytologist Forum. Always free to read, the Forum provides timely research, comment, and debate. It serves to highlight important research published within each issue, bringing a wider perspective and stimulating cross-disciplinary interest, but also reports on global developments within the plant sciences.
Catch up on the latest issues of Plants, People, Planet and New Phytologist
Plants, People, Planet
Vol. 8, Iss. 2, March 2026
New Phytologist
Vol. 249, Iss. 6, March 2026
New Phytologist
Vol. 250, Iss. 1, April 2026
Support for events in 2026
The New Phytologist Foundation supports symposia, conferences, meetings and other initiatives that further innovation and advancement in plant-focused research around the world. Often this will be in the form of part-support / sponsorship of a scientific meeting or awards such as poster and lecture prizes.
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
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