Announcing New Phytologist Now, Season Two!
Last updated: 31 Mar, 2022
We are excited to welcome you to the spring 2022 season of New Phytologist Now! This season features first authors of articles recently published in New Phytologist, selected by members of our Editorial and Advisory boards.
Each event will feature up to three authors presenting their work along a common theme, hosted by a New Phytologist Editorial or Advisory Board member, followed by a live audience Q&A. All events will be recorded and available to watch on demand.
Check out the schedule below. Click here for more details and free registration!
Circadian clocks
Wednesday 13 April 2022 – 14:00 BST (UTC +1)
Hosted by New Phytologist Editor, Elena Kramer
Featuring
- Nicky M. Creux, author of Flower orientation influences floral temperature, pollinator visits and plant fitness
- Luíza Lane de Barros Dantas, author of Field microenvironments regulate crop diel transcript and metabolite rhythms
- Manas Prusty, author of Genetic loci mediating circadian clock output plasticity and crop productivity under barley
Plant adaptation, domestication and invasion ecology
Thursday 12 May 2022 – 15:00 BST (UTC +1)
Hosted by New Phytologist Editor, Andre Kessler
Featuring
- Anani Fernandez, author of Intentional and unintentional selection during plant domestication: herbivore damage, plant defensive traits and nutritional quality of fruit and seed crops
- Ayub Odour, author of Native plant species show evolutionary responses to invasion by Parthenium hysterophorus in an African savanna
Plant signalling and stress
Wednesday 18 May 2022 – 10:00 AM BST (UTC + 1)
Hosted by New Phytologist Advisor, Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso
Featuring
- Amy Jacobsen, author of Root growth responses to mechanical impedance are regulated by a network of ROS, ethylene and auxin signalling in Arabidopsis
- Joris Jourquin, author of Two phylogenetically unrelated peptide-receptor modules jointly regulate lateral root initiation via a partially shared signaling pathway in Arabidopsis thaliana
- Yingxuan Ma, author of FLA11 and FLA12 glycoproteins fine-tune stem secondary wall properties in response to mechanical stresses
Stomata
Wednesday 25 May 2022 – 16:30 BST (UTC +1)
Hosted by New Phytologist Advisor, Rob Roelfsema
Featuring
- Maoya Bassiouni, author of Parsimony versus predictive and functional performance of three stomatal optimization principles in a big-leaf framework
- Xiaoyu Guo, author of Establishing asymmetry: stomatal division and differentiation in plant
- Silvere Vialet-Chabrand, author of Light, power, action! Interaction of respiratory energy- and blue light-induced stomatal movements
Plant–animal interactions
Thursday 9 June 2022 – 15:00 BST (UTC +1)
Hosted by New Phytologist Advisor, Christelle Robert
Featuring
- Rocio Escobar-Bravo, author of Leafminer attack accelerates the development of soil-dwelling conspecific pupae via plant-mediated changes in belowground volatiles
- Quint Rusman, author of Flowers prepare thyselves: Leaf and root herbivores induce specific changes in floral phytochemistry with consequences for plant interactions with florivores
- Camila Souza, author of Plant-centred sampling estimates higher beta diversity of interactions than pollinator-based sampling across habitats
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