New Phytologist is an international journal publishing outstanding original research in plant science and its applications. Research falls into five sections: Physiology & Development, Environment, Interaction, Evolution, and Transformative Plant Biotechnology. Topics covered range from intracellular processes through to global environmental change. New Phytologist is owned by the New Phytologist Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of plant science.

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Ion flux and control of the electrochemical potential across membranes is a master controller of plant function.

Light-activated channelrhodopsins: a revolutionary toolkit for the remote control of plant signalling

Read the Read the Tansley insight by Rainer Hedrich and Matthew Gilliham.

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Mechanisms for sink activity at the organismal scale are overlapping but distinct from those regulating ecosystem-scale sink activity.

Source vs sink limitations on tree growth: from physiological mechanisms to evolutionary constraints and terrestrial carbon cycle implications

Read the Tansley review by Anna T. Trugman and Leander D.L. Anderegg.

Enhancement of canopy CO2 assimilation rates in sugarcane from a 20% increase in Rubisco.

Increasing Rubisco as a simple means to enhance photosynthesis and productivity now without lowering nitrogen use efficiency

Read the Tansley review by Coralie E. Salesse-Smith, Yu Wang, and Stephen P. Long.

New approaches for ex situ and in situ single-cell mass spectrometry (MS)-based proteomics and metabolomics are being developed for plant biology.

The promising role of proteomes and metabolomes in defining the single-cell landscapes of plants

Read the Viewpoint by Christopher R. Anderton and R. Glen Uhrig

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Aging-dependent temporal regulation of MIR156 epigenetic silencing by CiLDL1 and CiNF-YB8 in chrysanthemum

Xuekai Gao, Lei Liu, Tianle Wang, Chuyan Jiang, Yujin Xue, Yahui Sun, Zhaoyu Gu, Yanjie Xu, Cai-Zhong Jiang, Junping Gao, Bo Hong, Chao Ma, 
  •  17 January 2025

Insights into the subdaily variations in methane, nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide fluxes from upland tropical tree stems

Laëtitia M. Bréchet, Roberto L. Salomόn, Katerina Machacova, Clément Stahl, Benoît Burban, Jean-Yves Goret, Kathy Steppe, Damien Bonal, Ivan A. Janssens, 
  •  17 January 2025
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Two reductases complete steroidal glycoalkaloids biosynthesis in potato

Ryota Akiyama, Daiki Terami, Aozora Noda, Bunta Watanabe, Naoyuki Umemoto, Toshiya Muranaka, Kazuki Saito, Yukihiro Sugimoto, Masaharu Mizutani, 
  •  17 January 2025
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The aerial epidermis is a major site of quinolizidine alkaloid biosynthesis in narrow‐leafed lupin

Karen Michiko Frick, Marcus Daniel Brandbjerg Bohn Lorensen, Nikola Micic, Eddi Esteban, Asher Pasha, Alexander Schulz, Nicholas James Provart, Hussam Hassan Nour-Eldin, Nanna Bjarnholt, Christian Janfelt, Fernando Geu-Flores, 
  •  14 January 2025

At least two functions for BdMUTE during the development of stomatal complexes in Brachypodium distachyon

Laura Serna, 
  •  14 January 2025
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MEDIATOR15 destabilizes DELLA protein to promote gibberellin-mediated plant development

Naohiko Ohama, Teck Lim Moo, KwiMi Chung, Nobutaka Mitsuda, Kulaporn Boonyaves, Daisuke Urano, Nam-Hai Chua, 
  •  14 January 2025
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From division to ‘divergence’: to understand wood growth across timescales, we need to (learn to) manipulate it

Valentina Buttò, Drew M. P. Peltier, Tim Rademacher, 
  •  12 January 2025
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A test of the Grant–Stebbins pollinator‐shift model of floral evolution

Matthew Moir, Hannah Butler, Craig Peter, Tony Dold, Ethan Newman, 
  •  10 January 2025
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Flexible or fortified? How lichens balance defence strategies across climatic harshness gradients

Inger K. de Jonge, Peter Convey, Ingeborg J. Klarenberg, Johannes H. C. Cornelissen, Stef Bokhorst, 
  •  10 January 2025
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Elevated CO2 alters soybean physiology and defense responses, and has disparate effects on susceptibility to diverse microbial pathogens

Melissa Bredow, Ekkachai Khwanbua, Aline Sartor Chicowski, Yunhui Qi, Matthew W. Breitzman, Katerina L. Holan, Peng Liu, Michelle A. Graham, Steven A. Whitham, 
  •  9 January 2025
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The mycorrhizal symbiosis: research frontiers in genomics, ecology, and agricultural application

Francis M. Martin, Marcel G. A. van der Heijden, 
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Soil organic matter dynamics mediated by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi – an updated conceptual framework

Songlin Wu, Wei Fu, Matthias C. Rillig, Baodong Chen, Yong-Guan Zhu, Longbin Huang, 
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Beyond knockouts: fine-tuning regulation of gene expression in plants with CRISPR-Cas-based promoter editing

Xu Tang, Yong Zhang, 
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Regulation of Rubisco activity in crops

Joana Amaral, Ana K. M. Lobo, Elizabete Carmo-Silva, 
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MOTHER‐OF‐FT‐AND‐TFL1 regulates the seed oil and protein content in soybean

Zhandong Cai, Peiqi Xian, Yanbo Cheng, Yiwang Zhong, Yuan Yang, Qianghua Zhou, Tengxiang Lian, Qibin Ma, Hai Nian, Liangfa Ge, 
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Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation

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