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New Phytologist is an online-only journal owned by the not-for-profit New Phytologist Foundation.

New Phytologist is an online-only journal owned by the New Phytologist Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the promotion of plant science.

29/10/2026

📢 New Phytologist Tansley Medal applications close in three days!

Your application checklist:
✅ Completed Tansley Medal 2027 pro-forma
✅ CV
✅ Letter of recommendation from a scientist who knows your work well and has agreed to support your application

📅 Deadline: 1 November 2026

https://www.newphytologist.org/grants-awards/tansley-medal

29/10/2026

'It sparked a lifelong journey that evolved from investigating the fundamental mechanisms by which plants shaped Earth's CO2 and climate history over millions of years, to deploying those same mechanisms to safeguard its future'

In Profile: David J. Beerling
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📖 https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.71468

28/10/2026

We are pleased to sponsor Integrating scales in planetary biology, Uppsala, Sweden, 28–30 October: https://lyyti.events/p/Integrating_Scales_in_Planetary_Biology_5919

27/10/2026

5 days to go! The New Phytologist Tansley Medal 2027 competition closes on 1 November!

Seeking inspiration? Check out our recent webinar with 2025 Tansley Medal winner Camille Delavaux: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4K_Y2tChmY

Apply for the Tansley Medal: https://www.newphytologist.org/grants-awards/tansley-medal

27/10/2026

The New Phytologist Foundation is pleased to sponsor the 12th International Symposium on Plant Soil Interactions at Low pH (PSILPH), Gifu, Japan, 27–31 October:

This is a tentative program; updates will be announced in due course. Detailed timing of the program will be updated later.

26/10/2026

Drought and salinity stress remodel Asian rice (Oryza sativa) leaf development through cell-type-specific regulatory programs

A Community resource by Robertson et al.
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📖 https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.71378

23/10/2026

Operationalizing soil persistence in soil and ecosystem ecology

A Letter by Rillig, Philippot & Lehmann
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📖 https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.71492

22/10/2026

Here's your latest update from The New Phytologist Foundation! In this edition: Tansley Medal deadline approaching; time to submit your abstract for our next symposium; join next generation scientists online, and more!

https://www.newphytologist.org/news/latest-updates-from-the-new-phytologist-foundation-october-2026

22/10/2026

GCR6, a novel QTL regulating grain chalkiness in rice

A Letter by Cheng et al.
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📖 https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.71563

21/10/2026

Congratulations to the poster prize winner, runner up and five honourable mentions at last week's 48th New Phytologist Symposium: Forest interactions!

🏆Winner: Lena Sachsenmaier
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig & Leipzig University, Germany
Stomatal behaviour across 38 tree species is not explained by commonly measured leaf traits

🏆Runner up: Eva Kubove
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
Dual removal of ecto- and ericoid mycorrhizal fungi stimulates saprotrophs to decompose humus stocks in a boreal pine forest

Honourable mentions

⭐ Milagros Barcelo
Hasselt University, Belgium
Aboveground vegetation misrepresents global patterns of mycorrhizal dominance: a root-based perspective

⭐ Matilde Maria Bragadini
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Soil microbes contribute to forest carbon stock across secondary succession of tropical moist forest in Panama

⭐ Louis Graup
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Switzerland
Interactions between tree hydraulic strategies and soil water dynamics determine forest drought stress

⭐ Cas Verbeek
Naturalis Biodiversity Centre, the Netherlands
Understories as biodiversity reservoirs for arbuscular mycorrhizal and root endophytic fungi in temperate European forests

⭐ Anita Weissflog
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Insect herbivores and fungi alter seedling dynamics in recovering tropical forests

Photos courtesy of Yadvinder Malhi.

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