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Looks like a boulder, smells of pines.
Editor Guillaume Tena says his favourite plant is the llareta (Azorella compacta). It is an amazing alien-looking plant with a quechua name, growing at very high altitudes in the Andes and the...
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Meet the team: Shannon Evans
You don’t hear much from the editorial assistants of research journals (unless you’re reviewing one of our papers – then you hear from us more than you’d like). So I thought I’d use our new blog to say...
View ArticleNature Plants is a reality!
Today I am very excited and not a little apprehensive. That is because today we properly launch a new journal, Nature Plants. It has been a long time coming, some will say too long. Certainly the idea...
View ArticleAgriculture in focus
The latest IPCC climate impacts report (http://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg2/) suggests that food production could be compromised by climate change over the coming century. Strategies to bolster...
View ArticleCrop nutrient content compromised
The nutritional quality of key food crops could be compromised by growth under elevated concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide, reports a paper published online in Nature...
View ArticleConvivial Rice, Decoded Cotton and Bronze Medals
Last week was a busy week for Nature Plants for a number of reasons. Various members of the team were out at meetings so if you were at the TIP conference on the “Dynamics of Plant DNA” in Strasbourg...
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New Shoots at the NAS
I know that this is pretty much old news as the announcement of the new members of the National Academy of Sciences was made almost a month ago. However I’d very much like to congratulate all 84 new...
View ArticlePlant science in the public domain
Nature Plants is now supporting the wonderfully informative Plant Science Panel run by Sense About Science, a charitable organization geared towards helping the public make sense of scientific...
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Pushing the Reset Button for Vernalization
Recent years have witnessed great advance in our mechanistic understanding of vernalization in overwintering plants. The FLC locus, the hub of vernalization network, is epigenetically silenced by...
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European Plant Biotech in the Balance
These are pivotal times for plant biotechnology in Europe. The new European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Vyentis Andriukaitis, is not due to take up his role until the 1st November but he...
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