The New Phytologist Foundation: Recent Episodes
The New Phytologist Foundation
The New Phytologist Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the promotion of plant science. We own two journals: New Phytologist, and Plants, People, Planet. Our activities range from funding symposia and workshops, to sponsoring prizes for early career researchers, to ensuring free access for a wide range of published research articles.
Where can a plant take you?
Herbaria 3.0 (www.herbaria3.org), is a collaborative digital environmental humanities project that offers a platform for sharing the stories of plants and people. Herbaria 3.0 explores how the stories we tell about plants illuminate the intertwined nature of humans and plants.
Nonna's Garden and Dad's Hedge are a sample of two stories taken from Herbaria 3.0.
Herbaria 3.0 is open access and nonprofit. It has been generously funded by the Seed Box: A Mistra-Formas Environmental Humanities Collaboratory hosted at Linköping University, in Linköping, Sweden, with additional funding provided by the Division of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the Colorado School of Mines, USA.
Where can a plant take you?
Herbaria 3.0 (www.herbaria3.org), is a collaborative digital environmental humanities project that offers a platform for sharing the stories of plants and people. Herbaria 3.0 explores how the stories we tell about plants illuminate the intertwined nature of humans and plants.
Nonna's Garden and Dad's Hedge are a sample of two stories taken from Herbaria 3.0.
Herbaria 3.0 is open access and nonprofit. It has been generously funded by the Seed Box: A Mistra-Formas Environmental Humanities Collaboratory hosted at Linköping University, in Linköping, Sweden, with additional funding provided by the Division of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the Colorado School of Mines, USA.
Harry Shearer features a recent paper about tropical tree mortality by Nate McDowell on @leshowharryshearer.
Read more about the research: https://www.newphytologist.org/blog/increasing-tree-mortality-in-a-warming-world/
Read the paper: https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.15027
Listen to the full show: https://soundcloud.com/leshowharryshearer/le-show-with-harry-shearer-march-11-2018
Sascha Ismail and Chris Kettle describe their recent New Phytologist paper, 'Evaluating realised seed dispersal across fragmented tropical landscapes: a two-fold approach using parentage analysis and the neighbourhood model', their careers, and top tips for early career researchers.
Read the paper: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.14427/abstract
Sascha Ismail and Chris Kettle describe their recent New Phytologist paper, 'Evaluating realised seed dispersal across fragmented tropical landscapes: a two-fold approach using parentage analysis and the neighbourhood model', their careers, and top tips for early career researchers.
Read the paper: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.14427/abstract
In the second of our two-part series, Editor-in-Chief Alistair Hetherington describes how to best navigate the submission and peer review process.
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IZgTyrxMD4
Listen to part one: https://soundcloud.com/new-phytologist/publishing-in-new-phytologist-part-one
Read New Phytologist: http://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1469-8137/
Submit your manuscript: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/newphytologist
Editor-in-Chief Alistair Hetherington describes how you can decide whether your work is suitable for publication in New Phytologist.
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kHYwSHGjpw
Listen to part two: https://soundcloud.com/new-phytologist/publishing-in-new-phytologist-part-two-submission-and-peer-review
Read New Phytologist: http://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1469-8137/
Submit your manuscript: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/newphytologist
"There are three important qualities in a good scientist: dedication, communication, and openness."
Prof Francis Martin is Section Editor for the Interaction section of New Phytologist. Listen to the interview to find out what he thinks the hot topics in plant-soil interactions are, and his advice for early career researchers.
'Don't be put off if your experiment doesn't seem to have worked if you're doing experiments, or if your data doesn't seem to fit - that's probably going to be the most interesting thing that you've done so far.'
Listen to our interview with Prof Colin Brownlee to find out how he became interested in plant science and hear his tips for early career researchers.
'Pursue questions that really interest you, do things that you like to do - I think that that's the best advice - because if you can maintain that enthusiasm, if you really maintain the joy in what you're doing in science, that will transmit itself into a successful career.'
Professor Amy Austin, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, is an Editor for New Phytologist, in the Environment section of the journal. She is the 2018 L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Laureate for Latin America: https://www.fondationloreal.com/posts/2018-l-oreal-unesco-for-women-in-science-awards/fr
Etienne Laliberté, winner of the 2016 New Phytologist Tansley Medal for excellence in plant science, describes how he became interested in plant science, the thought process behind his Tansley insight 'Below-ground frontiers in trait-based plant ecology', the hot topics in the field and his advice for early-career researchers.
Read Etienne's Tansley insight: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.14247/full
Find out more about the New Phytologist Tansley Medal: https://www.newphytologist.org/tansleymedal
"I think one of the most exciting results of the paper is the clear phenotype. When you are doing an experiment in the greenhouse and you harvest the plants, you really see a very strong effect when the plants are colonised by beneficial microbes."
New Phytologist author Ainhoa Martínez-Medina tells us why a fungus might not be such a bad thing for tomatoes, in the fight against nematodes, provides some tips for early career researchers, and shares who inspired her to be a scientist.
Read the paper: Martínez-Medina, A., Fernandez, I., Lok, G. B., Pozo, M. J., Pieterse, C. M. J. and Van Wees, S. C. M. (2016) Shifting from priming of salicylic acid- to jasmonic acid-regulated defences by Trichoderma protects tomato against the root knot nematode Meloidogyne incognita. New Phytologist. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.14251
Ainhoa was speaking to Mike Whitfield.
"Be curious, be passionate, and learn from people around you. Trust your curiosity and let it be your teacher."
New Phytologist Editor Maarja Öpik talks about her work in plant science and plant-fungi interactions, describes why she became a scientist, and provides some advice for early-career researchers.
Recorded at the 38th New Phytologist Symposium: Colonization of the terrestrial environment, by Leeds Media, July 2016.
"My advice for early career researchers: once you've written a manuscript, ask friends and colleagues, particularly those outside your field, to have a look at it."
Editor-in-Chief, Alistair Hetherington, talks about his role at the journal, what makes a great paper, why you should submit your manuscript to New Phytologist, and some tips for early career researchers.
http://www.newphytologist.com
Recorded at the 38th New Phytologist Symposium: Colonization of the terrestrial environment by Leeds Media, July 2016.
New Phytologist Editor Mark Rausher received the Sewall Wright Award at the 2016 Evolution Conference in Austin, Texas. Our Development Coordinator Mike Whitfield caught up with Mark to find out more about the award, Mark's career in plant science and evolutionary biology, and his advice for early career researchers.
Visit the New Phytologist Trust website for a transcript of the interview: https://www.newphytologist.org/news/view/123
More information on the American Society of Naturalists Sewall Wright Award: http://www.amnat.org/awards.html#Wright
New Phytologist Editor Keith Lindsey in conversation with Geraint Parry for the Arabidopsis Research Roundup (http://blog.garnetcommunity.org.uk/arabidopsis-research-roundup-3/). Keith describes work that aims to dissect the complex hormonal regulation of root growth, published in an Open Access paper by Rowe, et al.:
Rowe JH, Topping JF, Liu J, Lindsey K (2016) Abscisic acid regulates root growth under osmotic stress conditions via an interacting hormonal network with cytokinin, ethylene and auxin. New Phytolologist. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.13882
An interview with Dr Alexander Jones of the Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge University, UK, and winner of the 2015 New Phytologist Tansley Medal for excellence in plant science. In this interview, Alexander describes his research on the role of phytohormones in plant cell physiology and development, and how he was inspired to revisit an old question in plant science for his Tansley insight review.
Listen to the interview to hear Alexander's tips for early career plant scientists, and how his passion for plant science grew out of a love of gardening.
Alexander's Tansley insight can be read here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.13552/abstract
Find out more about the New Phytologist Tansley Medal competition here: https://www.newphytologist.org/tansleymedal
New Phytologist Editor Dr Amy Austin was recently awarded the L’Oréal-UNESCO prize for Women in Science in Argentina, for her project ‘Effects of afforestation on carbon and nitrogen cycling in natural ecosystems of Patagonia, Argentina’. Amy is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Agronomy at the University of Buenos Aires, a Principal Research Scientist at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas (CONICET) and has been an Editor of New Phytologist since 2009. Speaking to New Phytologist, Amy explained that one of the main aims of the award is to increase the visibility of women in science by highlighting the work of female researchers in all fields of science, adding that 2015 is the first year that the prize has been awarded to an ecologist in Argentina. One of her next projects, making use of the $200,000 Pesos award, will be to continue to support her research group in an effort to determine the impact of ponderosa pine plantations on the natural ecosystems of the Patagonian region in South America.
Interview with Hua Wang (Université Toulouse, France) at the 26th New Phytologist Symposium (May 2011, Nancy, France) www.newphytologist.org/symposiums/view/10 Hua was a poster prize winner at the symposium. Her poster was entitled 'Studies of auxin responses mediators in wood formation in Eucalyptus'. In the interview she discusses her research into auxin mediatiors involved in wood formation in Eucalyptus and its applications to bioenergy.
Interview with Oana Dima (Ghent University, Belgium) at the 26th New Phytologist Symposium (May 2011, Nancy, France) www.newphytologist.org/symposiums/view/10 Oana was a poster prize winner at the symposium. Her poster was entitled 'Profiling and localization of phenolics in Arabidopsis lignin mutants'. In the interview she discusses her research in lignin biosynthesis and its applications to bioenergy.
Interview with Stéphane Maury (Université d'Orléans, France) at the 26th New Phytologist Symposium (May 2011, Nancy, France) www.newphytologist.org/symposiums/view/10 Stéphane was a poster prize winner at the symposium. His poster was entitled 'Epigenomics in poplar: the methylome of non-condensed chromatin'. In the interview he discusses his research in DNA methylation and its applications to bioenergy.
Interview with former New Phytologist Editor Steve Strauss (Oregon State University, USA) at the 26th New Phytologist Symposium on Bioenergy Trees (May 2011, Nancy, France) www.newphytologist.org/symposiums/view/10 Listen to hear some excellent advice for early career scientists on presentating a poster at a scientific conference, and what makes a good poster.
Interview with New Phytologist Interaction Section Editor Francis Martin, (INRA, France) who was the lead organiser at the 26th New Phytologist Symposium on Bioenergy Trees (May 2011, Nancy, France) http://www.newphytologist.org/symposiums/view/10 Francis discusses his highlights from the symposium, the importance of encouraging early career scientists, and the future of research in bioeneregy.
Interview with New Phytologist Editor-in-Chief Alistair Hetherington (University of Bristol, UK) from July 2012. Alistair discusses his career and his long-serving relationship with New Phytologist resulting in his appointment as Editor-in-Chief. Alistair discusses his research and its implications for environment change and food security. He also looks at the future of New Phytologist and the publishing landscape in general.
An interview with the winner of the 2014 Tansley Medal for excellence in plant science, Dr William R. L. Anderegg of Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. William discusses his research and how it contributes to our understanding of the effects of climate change. He goes on to tell us how the spark for his research was seeing that the forests he had gone camping and hiking in as child were now dead or dying. His advice for early career researchers is to “start writing early and often – you’re never going to have the perfect paper or the perfect dataset!” When he’s not out in the field , William enjoys hiking, writing short stories and composing music. Listen to the full interview to also find out William’s favourite thing about his job and how the legacy of Arthur Tansley inspired him to apply the Tansley Medal.
Find out more at http://newphytologist.org/tansleymedal
Recording edited by Leeds Media Services http://www.leedsmediaservices.co.uk
Plenary lecture by Sarah O'Connor, John Innes Centre entitled 'Chemistry and biology of plant alkaloid biosynthesis'. This lecture took place during the New Phytologist next generation scientists conference, held at the John Innes Centre in July 2014 (http://www.newphytologist.org/nextgensci). New Phytologist next generation scientists was a unique event, fully funded by the New Phytologist Trust and Wiley, which aimed to provide the next generation of plant scientists a chance to share their work with their peers and leading international scientists in a stimulating, supportive and exciting environment.
Audio recorded and produced by Leeds Media Services http://www.leedsmediaservices.co.uk
Plenary lecture by Philip Benfey, Duke University and HHMI entitled 'A systems approach to improved root traits ' This lecture took place during the New Phytologist next generation scientists conference, held at the John Innes Centre in July 2014 (http://www.newphytologist.org/nextgensci). New Phytologist next generation scientists was a unique event, fully funded by the New Phytologist Trust and Wiley, which aimed to provide the next generation of plant scientists a chance to share their work with their peers and leading international scientists in a stimulating, supportive and exciting environment.
Audio recorded and produced by Leeds Media Services http://www.leedsmediaservices.co.uk
Plenary lecture by Kirsten Bomblies, Harvard University entitled 'Meiotic adaptation to whole genome duplication'. This lecture took place during the New Phytologist next generation scientists conference, held at the John Innes Centre in July 2014 (http://www.newphytologist.org/nextgensci). New Phytologist next generation scientists was a unique event, fully funded by the New Phytologist Trust and Wiley, which aimed to provide the next generation of plant scientists a chance to share their work with their peers and leading international scientists in a stimulating, supportive and exciting environment.
Audio recorded and produced by Leeds Media Services http://www.leedsmediaservices.co.uk
Plenary lecture by Charles Godfray, University of Oxford entitled 'What do we mean when we talk about sustainable intensification?' This lecture took place during the New Phytologist next generation scientists conference, held at the John Innes Centre in July 2014 (http://www.newphytologist.org/nextgensci). New Phytologist next generation scientists was a unique event, fully funded by the New Phytologist Trust and Wiley, which aimed to provide the next generation of plant scientists a chance to share their work with their peers and leading international scientists in a stimulating, supportive and exciting environment.
Audio recorded and produced by Leeds Media Services http://www.leedsmediaservices.co.uk