Phytogen Blog

ASPS publishes a society newsletter, Phytogen, in order to reach our own members plus general readers with an interest in developments in Australian plant science. Phytogen is thus a vehicle for communicating new ideas, recent professional experiences, and forthcoming events. Routine items include: invitations to submit applications for Society awards that identify outstanding researchers, nominations for election of Corresponding members overseas, nominations for RN Robertson and JG Wood lectures, advance notice of plant science meetings and of course, reminders to renew subscriptions! Phytogen is published in electronic format as a blog, and is also summarised 2-3 times per year in a PDF and email newsletter format.  For content submissions contact Dr Janet Wheeler Janet.Wheeler@latrobe.edu.au

 

Past Phytogen Editors: Dr Paul Kriedmann (1995-2001), Professor Helen Irving (2001-2013),  , Dr Gonzalo Estavillo, Adjunct Professor Tina Offler, Dr Christopher Cazzonelli (2013-2019), Georgia Koerber (2019-2023).

 

Leaf respiration in a warmer world is substantially lower than previously thought

By Sebastian Pfautsch ASPS Representative ‘Environment and Ecophysiology: Global Change’ Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University   Every year plants respire about 64 Gt CO2 back into the atmosphere. That is six times as much as released from burning fo
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Science meets Parliament 2016 report

by ASPS student member Hannah Osborn (@han_osb321) The sixteenth Science meets Parliament was held in Canberra last week, an event where over 200 scientists descend on Parliament House to learn about politics, policymaking and the media. I was fortunate enough to represent the Austral
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Plants in Action 2nd edition PDFs now available

Your current membership is paid to [wpmlfield name=”paidtodate”] (year, month, day). Dear ASPS members, Plants in Action 2nd edition is the on-line text book produced by the Australian and New Zealand societies of plant sciences freely available to users across the world.
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38th New Phytologist Symposium: Colonization of the terrestrial environment 2016

38th New Phytologist Symposium: Colonization of the terrestrial environment 2016 25-27 July 2016, Bristol, UK Travel grant submission deadline: Thursday 21st April 2016 Poster abstract submission deadline: Thursday 19th May 2016 The purpose of this symposium is to explore the contribu
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37th New Phytologist Symposium: Plant developmental evolution

37th New Phytologist Symposium: Plant developmental evolution Beijing, China Travel grant submission deadline: Thursday 25th February 2016 Poster abstract submission deadline: Thursday 17th March 2016 The relatively new field of plant evolutionary-developmental biology (‘evo-dev
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Ninth Australian Conference on Grassland Invertebrate Ecology

Ninth Australian Conference on Grassland Invertebrate Ecology 4-7 April 2016, Western Sydney University, Australia The conference focuses on the biology, ecology and management of both pest and beneficial invertebrates in native and introduced grasslands including pastures, pasture/cr
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Report of Education Sessions at ComBio 2015

Adapted from an article published in the December 2015 issue of the ASBMB magazine, the “Australian Biochemist”, by Gonzalo Estavillo and Janet Macaulay. High profile educators, science communicators and academics passionate about teaching participated in the two education focused ses
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Report from Dr Samantha Grover, Plant Nutrition Trust Award recipient 2015

5th International Symposium on Soil Organic Matter, Göttingen, Germany, September 20-25th A whole week of soil organic matter! While many Europeans commented that it was a long way to come for a conference, the nine Australians lucky enough to attend SOM2015 all agreed that we found i
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GPC Dec e-bulletin, the 4th International Conference on Plant Vascular Biology‏ and new job opportunities.

Your current membership is [wpmlfield name=”membershiptype”] which is paid until [wpmlfield name=”paidtodate”] (year, month, day).   The 4th International Conference on Plant Vascular Biology‏ will be held in Shenzhen, China between July 19th and 23rd 2016
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