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Call for articles – Polar, alpine and mountain plants in climate change
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: December 2024 Extreme latitudes, like those of Arctic and Antarctic areas, share several features with mountain habitats, like short growing seasons with seasonally high solar irradiation, mostly cool temperatures and rugged terrains. Relatively rich flora can still be found especially in some of the Arctic and mountain regions
Continue readingCALL FOR ARTICLES – Light on Flowering: the role of light spectrum in regulating flowering in horticultural crops
Horticultural crops, including fruits, vegetables, ornamental plants, medicinal herbs, and aromatic spices, are pivotal in addressing diverse agricultural needs. Recent advances in understanding how different light spectra influence flowering in horticultural crops, especially with LED technology, have created new research opportunities, especially in controlled environments like greenhouses and vertical farms.
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Webinar: Trends in crop improvement and development
Welcome to the Sixth Plants & Peoples webinar -a joint venture between Physiologia Plantarum and the Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS) The focus is “Trends in Crop Improvement and Development” Register and watch the prerecorded presentations here. The live event will take place on November 29, 2023 11:30 CET and 18:30 Beijing
Continue readingCall for articles – From Photosynthesis to Industrial Applications
Climate change, energy use and food security are the main challenges that our society is facing nowadays. The impact of carbon dioxide on the Earth´s climate forces us to investigate possibilities for using sustainable energy resources. One potential approach to address this problem is to recycle carbon dioxide to fuel- or
Continue readingApply to our Assistant Features Editor Program
Physiologia Plantarum is looking for PhD students or postdocs in plant science who are willing to learn how to communicate science simply and in a relatable context for the general public. With guidance from the editorial office and associate editors, you will deliver popular science short pieces. We welcome written
Continue readingCall for articles – Modern plant breeding for achieving global food security
Food and Agriculture Organization has estimated that the global human population will reach approximately 9 billion by 2050. The world farming system must produce 50% more food than the current production to meet growing food demands. Plant breeding-based technologies have contributed significantly to hunger reduction during the last few decades.
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Call for articles – Role of phytohormones and plant-growth regulators in the regulation of plant immunity
DEADLINE CHANGED TO 31st MARCH 2024. Pathogenic microbes are responsible for enormous crop loss during pre and post-harvest storage conditions and, thus, are one of the major threats to sustainable crop production. In particular, fungal pathogens cause some of the most devastating diseases of staple crops, including blast disease of
Continue readingCall for articles – Large-scale data approaches in non-model species
NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: April 2024 This special issue focuses on data resources and computation approaches for non-model organisms. In the past decade, there has been a revolution in high throughput methods. This has liberated studies from the need to use model systems, as evidenced by the explosion in available genome
Continue readingWebinar: “Recent breakthroughs in lignin chemistry and phenoloxidases for plant development and response to stresses”
Welcome to the Fifth Plants & Peoples webinar -a joint venture between Physiologia Plantarum and the Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS) The focus is “Recent breakthroughs in lignin chemistry and phenoloxidases for plant development and response to stresses”. Register and watch the prerecorded presentations here. The live event will take
Continue readingCall for articles – From water to land: Which factors drove plant terrestrialization?
Some 500 million years ago plant life on land started to flourish and diversify. This transformative event required the ability to resist to earth’s challenges—abilities hard-wired in extant plants today. Some prerequisites for terrestrial life already evolved in streptophyte algae, thus offering building blocks and networks that enabled adaptation to
Continue readingSPPS and PPL prizes 2022….who are the winners?
We gladly present the winners of the SPPS Prizes of 2022 that are given during the 29th SPPS conference! Several prizes have been given: the Physiologia Plantarum prize, Early career prize, PhD prize, Innovation prize and SPPS prize. For some, the jury could not decide and 2 prizes were given!
Continue readingMeet our 2 new Subject Editors
Yuling Jiao takes over our “Development, growth and differentiation” area after Ykä Helariutta. Yuling Jiao’s lab combines multidisciplinary approaches to study plant development, in particular shoot lateral appendage formation and patterning. In combination with mathematical simulation, they study the 3D form acquisition of leaves, the primary aerial organ. In addition,
Continue readingYkä Helariutta – Physiologia Plantarum’s new Editor-in-Chief
Since January, Ykä Helariutta is the new Editor-in-chief of Physiologia Plantarum. He is currently sharing the position with Vaughan Hurry for a smooth transition. A word from Ykä Helariutta – PPL new Editor-in-Chief I initially trained as a plant molecular biologist and obtained my PhD at the University of Helsinki,
Continue readingWinners of the reviewer award 2021
We are happy to announce the 2021 Reviewer award winners! Soichi Kojima Dr Soichi Kojima did his PhD at Tohoku University, Japan, under Prof. Tomoyuki Yamaya, studying the gene expression of glutamate synthase in rice. As a post-doc, he worked with Prof. Nicolaus von Wiren at the University of Hohenheim,
Continue readingCall for articles- From the biosynthesis of volatiles and colors to their role in eco-environments-CLOSED
Plant-specialized metabolites, including anthocyanin and carotenoids, and floral volatiles such as terpenoids, phenylpropanoids/benzenoids, and fatty acids play crucial roles in plants. Importantly, they are features of flowers’ colors and fragrance, which are essential traits in maintaining the ecological linkage between flowers and a diverse range of visitors, such as pollinators,
Continue readingA bit more salt? How do plants cope with it?
The phrase “to be worth one’s salt” speaks to the importance with which this mineral was held by ancient peoples, as—in addition to its flavour-enhancing properties—it was the crucial factor allowing food preservation in the absence of refrigeration or canning technologies. However, the same microbe-killing properties that make it so
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