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This image, of Balanophora fungosa ssp. Fungosa, keeps popping up in my newsfeed. But what looks like a mushroom turns out to be a plant. 🧵1/5 Image credit: Petra Svetlikova #PlantScience

📢 One month left to apply to speak at the #47NPS: Extreme Heat – extending the thermal limits of life! Deadline for abstracts and travel grant applications: 2 February 📍 Córdoba, Spain 📅 2–5 June 2026 👉 www.newphytologist.org/events/47-nps #PlantScience

Wishing you a happy and successful 2026 – from all of us at The New Phytologist Foundation central office!

Explore '#Anthromes and terrestrial carbon: From the deep past to net-zero' – a new joint Special Collection from Plants, People, Planet and New Phytologist 👇 📚 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/anthrome... #PlantScience

Our Forum provides timely comment and debate. We highlight important research published within each issue, bringing a wider perspective and stimulating cross-disciplinary interest, and report on global developments within #PlantScience. Explore now 👇 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...

In our #VirtualIssue on #Herbivore-derived elicitors of plant responses we bring together New Phytologist articles that highlight recent developments in the study of how plants respond to herbivores 👇 📚 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... #PlantScience

Our #VirtualIssue on Plant terrestrialization focuses on piecing together #streptophyte trait #evolution and curating research that has contributed to advances in the evolutionary inference of (early) land plant form and function 👇 📚 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... #PlantScience 🧵1/2

H isotopes in #plant #carbohydrates as a metabolic proxy 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #TansleyReview by Holloway-Phillips et al. @WIleyPlantSci #PlantScience @arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social @ma-cormier.bsky.social @lucascernusak.bsky.social

'I am grateful that #PlantScience is so international and so full of people who are really motivated to try to improve the world for many living things.' – Dominique Bergmann Explore New Phytologist's Profiles 👇 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...

The New Phytologist Foundation supports symposia, conferences, meetings and other initiatives that further innovation and advancement in #PlantScience research around the world 👇 www.newphytologist.org/grants-award...

Season's greetings from all of us at New Phytologist and The New Phytologist Foundation!

Abstract submission and registration for the #47NPS Extreme Heat: extending the thermal limits of life, are open! 2–5 June 2026 Travel grant, selected speaker application deadline: 2 February 2026 Poster abstract deadline: 2 March 2026 Full details at www.newphytologist.org/events/47-nps

Resources for assessing protein-protein interactions in #arbuscular #mycorrhizal roots: CKL2 as a case study 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #CommunityResource by Ivanov et al. @WileyPlantSci #PlantScience

Soil history of extreme weather effects new plant growth inducing transcriptomic and structural changes 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by Donnelly et al. @WileyPlantSci #PlantScience This figure was created with BioRender, Laukens, K. (2025): biorender.com/3ufqplg

#Leaf economics links #drought and #heat tolerance across contrasting habitats 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by Wang et al. @WileyPlantSci #PlantScience

H3K37ac promotes gene expression in response to salinity in #rice 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #Letter by Ma et al. @WileyPlantScience #SaltStress

✨ Paper spotlight ✨ (🧵 1/6) Soil organic matter dynamics under changing precipitation regimes nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @teamrat.bsky.social @aaberhe.com

#TansleyInsight The environmentally responsive plant epigenome: insights from jasmonate signaling Zander and Vesper nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Discovery of the roles of SmMAPK4 in regulating tanshinone biosynthesis in Salvia miltiorrhiza Zhang et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/AZJTJ4...

#TansleyReview SOM under changing precipitation regimes Min et al. @teamrat.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #plantscience

Quinoa guard cells adapt ABA response for efficient gas exchange under salinity Huang et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/JMGQUZ...

The maize mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinase gene ZmMAPKKK45 is associated with multiple disease resistance Zhong et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#TansleyReview: Mycelial dynamics in arbuscular mycorrhizal #fungi Vasilis Kokkoris 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

#TansleyReview: Shortcutting photorespiration: avenues and challenges toward realizing higher-yielding photorespiratory bypass #crops Meacham-Hensold et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

#TansleyInsight | TIR innovations in plant immunity Zhongshou Wu 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience #TansleyMedal

#TansleyInsight: Trait-based island biogeography as a tool for studying future ecological communities @julianschrader.bsky.social 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience #TansleyMedal

#TansleyInsight | The genetic architecture and spatiotemporal dynamics of adaptation across human-modified landscapes @jmkreiner.bsky.social 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience #TansleyMedal

#TansleyInsight | The pulse of global vegetation: do individual rainfall events create a lasting imprint on photosynthesis? Andrew F. Feldman 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience #TansleyMedal

#TansleyInsight | Distal to proximal: a continuum of drivers shaping tree growth and carbon partitioning @acabon.bsky.social 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience #TansleyMedal

#TansleyInsight | On growth and flow: hydraulic aspects of aboveground meristems @jalonsos.bsky.social 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience #TansleyMedal

#TansleyInsight | On the role of mutualisms in plant biogeography: consequences for ecology, evolution, and invasion @camilledelavaux.bsky.social 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience #TansleyMedal

Novel major loci shape habitat-associated flowering time variation in Yellowstone monkeyflowers Berg et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/79IPVZ...

L-DOPA elicits an atypical iron deficiency response Hsieh et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/374RX7...

Transfer cells in Horneophyton lignieri illuminate the origin of vascular tissues in land plants Kenrick and Long nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

An effect of biomass removal on functional traits of clonal and non-clonal herbs during establishment Martínková et al. @exfumo.bsky.social @ibotcz.bsky.social @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/QK9WCM...

Nutrient addition and herbivore exclusion alter plant traits and biomass via distinct mechanisms: intraspecific variability vs species turnover Yan et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Ecological predictors of plant responses to sequential herbivory: a meta‐analysis Delamore et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

My @newphyt.bsky.social Tansley Insight is now published in an issue: Trait-based island biogeography as a tool for studying future ecological communities I provide an overview of recent advances in integrating plant traits into island ecology and highlight key themes for future research.

'There are few other jobs that involve both writing software and climbing trees to perform measurements, sometimes within days of each other, and I could not imagine living without this diversity.' Roman Mathias Link: 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

'It still amazes me that invisible overlooked organisms under our feet can influence plant biology, community diversity and biogeography.' In Profile: 2025 New Phytologist #TansleyMedal winner @camilledelavaux.bsky.social 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

#Viewpoint: Expanding frontiers: harnessing plant biology for #space exploration and planetary #sustainability Fountain et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

Evidence for plastome loss in the holoparasitic Mystropetalaceae A #Letter by Yu et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

HOS1 Modulates SnRK1 Stability to Promote Nitrate-Driven #Root Development in #Arabidopsis A #Letter by Liu et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

Soon starting our campaign! Super excited to be part of this!

I am honored to have received the 2025 Tansley Medal @newphyt.bsky.social! Thank you to everyone who pushed, challenged, and supported me along the way to complete the underlying work.

#Pathogen mediated plant community #ecology 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 👆 A #Commentary by Richard C. Cobb on this article by Sun et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

Mutualisms shape root traits and #carbon cycling under global change 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 👆 A #Commentary by Arnaud et al. on this article by Milligan et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

Our #OA meta-analysis on ecological predictors of plant responses to sequential herbivory is out in @newphyt.bsky.social. It was an enjoyable collaboration with Zoë Delamore & Erik Poelman from @w-u-r.bsky.social and Zoë did a great job leading the project nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Very happy that the last chapter of my PhD thesis on hyperparasitoid wasps is finally out in @newphyt.bsky.social ! 🌱🪲🦟