GPC E-Bulletin July 2016

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In Journal of Experimental Botany: C4 photosynthesis at 50 – from intrigue to Hall of Fame
JXB‘s Jonathan Ingram highlights two new Darwin Reviews celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Hatch & Slack’s 1966 discovery of C4 photosynthesis. 

From Nature Plants: Learning from the past
This Nature Plants editorial discusses the role of seed banks and other genetic resources for crop breeding and future food security. 

New Phytologist Call for Manuscripts: Special Issue on Plant Volatiles
New Phytologist is currently accepting submissions for a Special collection on Plant volatiles. The journal welcomes submissions of synthetic reviews as well as experimental studies, in all areas and scales of plant science. 

Solving a Plant-Based Rubik’s Cube Puzzle
John Innes Centre scientists have discovered a key “twist” in a Rubik’s cube-like plant puzzle, which could pave the way to new, or more effective pharmaceuticals.

Hidden Moss Chloroplast ‘Wall’ Discovered
Japanese researchers have succeeded in the world’s first visualization of a peptidoglycan ‘wall’ present in the chloroplasts of bryophytes (moss plants). 

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GARNet 2016: Innovation in the Plant Sciences
06–07 September 2016. Cardiff, UK. 

10th Tri-National Arabidopsis Meeting
14–16 September 2016. Vienna, Austria.

2nd Asian Horticultural Congress
26–28 September 2016. Chengdu, China.

1st International Symposium on Genomic Selection in Crop Breeding
29–30 September 2016. Rabat, Morocco.

Lots of new reports, and an archive of useful documents from the last few years, are available on our website. Head to the Resources page and click ‘Reports’.

Set for Success: Climate-proofing the Malabo Declaration (PDF)
This Montpellier Panel briefing paper outlines the need for African governments to unlock the continent’s agriculture sector in a way that captures the synergies between climate adaptation and mitigation and identifies and reduces the inevitable trade-offs.

UK Climate Change Risk Assessment 2017 Synthesis report: priorities for the next five years (PDF)
The Climate Change Act requires the UK Government to compile every five years an assessment of the risks and opportunities arising for the UK from climate change. This document provides a synthesis of the Evidence Report in preparation for the next assessment due in 2017.

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Congratulations to Drs. Maria Andrade, Robert Mwanga, Jan Low (International Potato Center), and Howarth Bouis (HarvestPlus), who were announced as the 2016 World Food Prize Laureates last month.
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Congratulations are also in order to the UK and Brazil-based scientists who are to receive funding for four collaborative wheat projects, made possible thanks to the BBSRC and Embrapa.
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A postcard from the Spanish Society of Plant Physiology
Meet the Global Plant Council’s newest Member Society!

Interview with Laura Lagomarsino, winner of the Ernst Mayr award at Evolution 2016
In this New Phytologist blog post, Mike Whitfield meets Laura Lagomarsino, an evolutionary biologist and botanist who studies the evolution and systematics of Andean flora, and winner of the 2016 Ernst Mayr Award.

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