''New Phytologist'' is a
peer-reviewed
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scientific journal
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Content
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published on behalf of the New Phytologist Foundation by
Wiley-Blackwell
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. It was founded in 1902 by botanist
Arthur Tansley
Sir Arthur George Tansley FLS, FRS (15 August 1871 – 25 November 1955) was an English botanist and a pioneer in the science of ecology.
Educated at Highgate School, University College London and Trinity College, Cambridge, Tansley taught a ...
, who served as editor until 1931.
Topics covered
''New Phytologist'' covers all aspects of
plant science
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, with topics ranging from intracellular processes through to global environmental change, including:
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Physiology
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and
development
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Arts
*Development hell, when a project is stuck in development
*Filmmaking, development phase, including finance and budgeting
*Development (music), the process thematic material is reshaped
* Photograph ...
: intra/inter-cellular signalling, long-distance signalling, physiology, development,
eco-devo -
phenotypic plasticity
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, transport,
biochemistry
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.
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Environment
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* Natural environment, all living and non-living things occurring naturally
* Biophysical environment, the physical and biological factors along with their chemical interactions that affect an organism or ...
:
global change
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and Earth system functioning, environmental stress, ecophysiology, plant–soil interactions,
heavy metals.
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Interaction
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Science
* Interaction hypothesis, a theory of second language acquisition
* Interaction (statistics)
* Interactions o ...
: multitrophic systems,
mycorrhizas and
pathogen
In biology, a pathogen ( el, πάθος, "suffering", "passion" and , "producer of") in the oldest and broadest sense, is any organism or agent that can produce disease. A pathogen may also be referred to as an infectious agent, or simply a germ ...
s,
fungal
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genomics
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, nitrogen-fixing
symbioses.
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Evolution
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:
molecular evolution
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,
population genetics
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, mating systems,
phylogenetics
In biology, phylogenetics (; from Greek language, Greek wikt:φυλή, φυλή/wikt:φῦλον, φῦλον [] "tribe, clan, race", and wikt:γενετικός, γενετικός [] "origin, source, birth") is the study of the evolutionary his ...
, speciation, plant-enemy coevolution.
Article categories
The journal publishes articles in the following categories:
* Original research articles
* Research reviews
* Commentaries
* Letters
* Meeting reports
* Modelling/Theory and Methods papers
* Tansley reviews
* Tansley insights
* Viewpoints
* Community resources
References
External links
Journal HomepageNew Phytologist FoundationNew Phytologistat
SCImago Journal Rank
New Phytologistat
HathiTrust Digital Library
New Phytologistat Botanical Scientific Journals
Publications established in 1902
Botany journals
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