Congratulations to New Phytologist's Editor-in-Chief, Maarja Öpik, on being elected to the Estonian Academy of Sciences! omi.ut.ee/et/uudis/pro...

Very happy to have Silvia Ramundo @sramundo.bsky.social join our NonSeed UK meeting for the opening keynote talk!

Today I read in Le Figaro that the oldest traces of domestication of fire have been discovered in England dating back 400 000 years ago… but in Ménez Dregan, Plouhinec in Brittany, traces of fire dated to about 465 000 years ago!

Do all the ash trees dying across the United States concern you? It’s time to fight back with fungi. New paper just out on the fungi that can kill emerald ash borer adults: doi.org/10.3390/f161...

Plant EvoDevo and EvoMPMI people - consider applying to UBC, their science (and weather) is great!

Researchers present three new species and two new records of the genus 𝐿𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑎 from subtropical China based on morphological and multi-locus phylogenetic evidence. 🔗 doi.org/10.3897/myco...

Meet Plenary speakers of @icom2026.bsky.social Prof. Marc-André Selosse - from Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (Paris) - will be opening the session "Moving forward while looking into the past: How the evolutionary history of mycorrhizas informs future adaptation pathways" #ICOM2026

It was a pleasure to visit the fossil plant sites around Angers with Prof Jiri Kvacek and his student from Prague last week

📢 Last chance to submit your abstract, apply for a travel grant and take advantage of early bird registration for our upcoming #symposium, '#Microbes as hidden or prominent players in plant life'! Deadline: 12 May 👉 www.newphytologist.org/symposia/eic #PlantScience

A fossilised 113-million-year-old hell ant from Brazil adds to the evidence that the first ants evolved in the southern hemisphere before moving north – and beyond

New paper out in: “Bring back the phenotype”. Sewall Wright was right all along. After a century, it is time to catch up! Nice writing with Mike Wade from Indiana University, who has provided empirical evidence of group selection since 1976! doi.org/10.1111/nph.... @newphyt.bsky.social

Most land plants team with mycorrhizal fungi to survive. This ancient partnership has helped both plants and fungi thrive over much of Earth. Learn more on #EarthDay: scim.ag/4cMgplJ

Et voilà le résultat ! Si vous l'avez manquée en direct, vous pouvez (ré)écouter l'émission : tinyurl.com/2a62nz3y ou sur l'application RadioFrance !

[RDV 16h !] Il y a env. 500 Ma, les plantes aquatiques colonisaient la terre ferme. Que connaît-on des mécanismes à l’origine de cette sortie des eaux ? Quelles ont été les adaptations nécessaires ? tinyurl.com/2a62nz3y avec Pierre-Marc Delaux, @huguesrenault.bsky.social & Christine Strullu-Derrien