A shout-out to the Young Plant Scientist Winner: Marta Nunes da Silva wins the FESPB prize!

FESPB Prize – Plant Biology Europe 2025

The Federation of European Societies of Plant Biology (FESPB) organizes a large international Plant Biology Congress every two years. As the sponsors for the FESPB Young Plant Scientist Award 2025, we are proud to present the winner, Marta Nunes da Silva Here is an interview we conducted with her earlier Can you tell us briefly … Read more

Journey from a Single Cell to a Flourishing Forest

In a compelling spotlight written for the Assistant Features Editor program, Haoran Peng explores the groundbreaking work by Carneros et al. (2024), offering fresh insights into sustainable forestry. The study focuses on somatic embryogenesis (SE), a transformative technique that regenerates plants from single cells—vital for propagating elite tree species like conifers and cork oak. Peng … Read more

The 7th Connecting Plants & People Webinar

Welcome to the 7th Plants & Peoples webinar -a joint venture between Physiologia Plantarum and the Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS) The focus is “Mechano – and cell-biology”. Register and watch the prerecorded presentations here. The webinar is divided in two, before the live event you have the opportunity to view the pre-recorded presentations (20 … Read more

AI in the peer review process

AI in the peer review process The peer-review system is under increasing pressure due to the exponential growth in submitted manuscripts. Between 2016 and 2022, there was an estimated 47% increase in published articles, while the pool of qualified reviewers has not grown at the same pace (Fox et al., 2023; Peterson et al., 2022). … Read more

Welcome to Plants, Big Data, and You!

This video by our Assistant Features Editor program participant, Noé Perron, is an engaging exploration of the intersection of plant biology and cutting-edge data technologies. The video dives into the workings of plant genetics, illustrating how genes, those small pieces of DNA, control every aspect of life by producing RNA and proteins. But what if … Read more