100 Plant Science Questions

27/03/2022

Congratulations to Dr. Ahmet Bakirbas who joins the Americas panel. Ahmet is a graduate research assistant at UMass Amherst

25/03/2022

Welcome to Dr Amanda Cardoso. Amanda hails from Brazil and is now working in the states - specialising in Drought Responses, Xylem & Stomata. Amanda joins us on our Americas panel.

25/03/2022

Introducing our second to last panellist, Dr Deepak Jaiswal. Deepak joins our Asia panel, representing Palkkad IIT and years of research undertaken around the world.

25/03/2022

Last, but certainly not least, we're pleased to introduce Dr Sanna Sevanto, a research leader at . Sanna bridges physics and biology to investigate thermodynamics and fluid mechanics through a plant lens.

24/03/2022

Please extend a warm welcome to Reecie Levin! Reecie is an archaeobotanist and anthropologist, lecturing at Valdosta State University Reecie is able to offer unique insights into plant histories and sociologies.

23/03/2022

Please welcome our next panellist, who joins our Asia sub-panel - Dr. Nawaporn Onkokesung , a lab manager and senior postdoc at .

Welcome!

22/03/2022

Please extend a warm welcome to our next panellist, Dr. Russell Arnott. Russell helms Incredible Oceans - WhaleFest and also runs GATSBY's plant science educational program- promoting plant engagement and aquatic understanding to a general audience. Russell joins our European panel.

22/03/2022

Welcome to our panellist Dr. Ida Wilson. Ida joins our Africa panel with her plant health expertise.

21/03/2022

Welcome to our fantastic European panellist, . Dr. Cerian Webb works as an epidemiologist and modeller at Cambridge. She brings a fantastic perspective.

21/03/2022

Please extend a warm welcome to our next panellist who joins our Asia sub-panel, Dr. Xiangyan Feng. Xiangyan Fen works on drought tolerance at the Chinese National Academy of Sciences.

20/03/2022

Please welcome our panellist Dr Benoit Lacombe, who provides a unique blend of hands-on farming experience and molecular plant biology research at INRAE

19/03/2022

We're excited to welcome Dr. Arthur Gessler of Swiss Forest Lab to our European Panel. Arthur brings wealth of knowledge on trees to our panel.

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19/03/2022

Welcome to our panellist Dr Yoseph Araya, who joins our Africa panel and works at the The Open University. Yoseph recently helped advise on the BBC's series!

Welcome Yoseph

18/03/2022

Next up we're pleased to be introducing Dr Frank Dohleman. Frank is an independent consultant specialising in grasses and crop production. Frank sits on our Americas sub panel.

Welcome Frank!

18/03/2022

Our fifth panellist introduction is Dr Shyam Phartyal - Associate professor at Nalanda University Shyam joins us on our Asia panel with his years of international experience.

17/03/2022

Welcome Dr Delphine Fleury joins us on our European panel, representing her experience in industry as head of applied genomics - vegetables at KWS UK

Welcome, Delphine!

17/03/2022

Today we're introducing Dr Varsha Pathare. Varsha works at Washington State University & joins us on our Americas panel. Welcome, Varsha!

16/03/2022

We're pleased to be introducing our next panellist, Dr Vinita Gowda! Vinita is an assistant professor & "accidental scientist" TrEE Lab at the Institute of Science Education & Research in Bhopal. Vinita is on our Asia sub-panel.

16/03/2022

Welcome to Dr Amanda Cardoso! Amanda hails from Brazil and is now working in the states - specialising in Drought Responses, Xylem & Stomata. Amanda joins us on our Americas panel.

16/03/2022

We're excited to begin introducing our incredible global panellists!

First up is Benard Muyoke (Twitter)
- Chief plant health inspector at Kenya's Plant Health Inspectorate Service.

He joined us after hearing about our project through the Connected Virus Network

11/02/2022

Happy 7th to all women, girls, and NB folks working hard in STEM!

We see you, we support you, we admire your global hard work. Love from , and from the team!

03/02/2022

We're looking to redress panellist disparities in our Asia*/Oceania panellist sub-group.

If you're a woman, who lives in or was born in Asia*/Oceania who works with PLANTS in any way - we'd LOVE to hear from you!

Fill the form below by 11th Feb!
www.tinyurl.com/100PSQsPanel

26/01/2022

We received a huge 561 questions! Thank you all so much to everyone who dug deep and asked us anything - many fun, insightful, thoughtful, and interesting questions asked.

The team & New Phytologist will be working hard to refine these Qs for our panellists!

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18/01/2022

Calling all prospective panellists! Keep an eye on your email inboxes today as we'll be sharing our selection and diversity monitoring forms! You have until the 1st of February fill it in. DM us if you have any questions!

18/01/2022

Q: Can plants adapt fast enough to climate change without human intervention?

A: David Nogues-Bravo et al wrote this great review "Cracking the Code of Biodiversity Responses to Past Climate Change" - shared in Trends in Ecology & Evolution 2018.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2018.07.005

16/01/2022

Q: To what extent are the stress responses of cultivated plants appropriate for current and future environments?

A: "Abiotic stress responses in plants" (2021) great review by Zhang et al in Nature Reviews

In this Review, Zhang et al. summarize our current understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying the responses of plants to abiotic stresses, and how this knowledge can be used to improve crop resilience through genetic, chemical and microbial approaches.

14/01/2022

Q: Can we understand the succession of plant species and crop varieties under climate change?

A: "A socio-ecological model for predicting impacts of land-use and climate change on regional plant diversity in the Austrian Alps" - Dullinger et al Global Change Biology

http://ow.ly/T7a250HtwpS

Land-use and climate change will have important effects on the future of biodiversity. We predict changes to the potential distribution of vascular plants in response to these two drivers in a region...

14/01/2022

We're revisiting our original 2011 questions!

Q: Can we develop crops that are more resilient to climate fluctuation without yield loss?

A: Zhang et al "Developing naturally stress-resistant crops for a sustainable agriculture" in

doi.org/10.1038/s41477-018-0309-4

There are multiple strategies to fortify crop nutrition and support global food security and sustainable agriculture. Here the authors propose to increase the diversity of crops by devoting more efforts to studying minor crops that are naturally stress resistant.

31/12/2021

Happy new year everyone! Questions close today, and the team are taking a little and well-earned 7 day rest.

Thanks for your support, questions, ideas, and shares. You're all great!

30/12/2021

YOU HAVE 24 HOURS! Don't panic, just dig deep and think of something plant-related and shove it in our form!

We are SO grateful to everyone who has RT'd, shared, asked, in 2021. Lots more cool things to come in 2022!

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29/12/2021

48! Hours!

You know the drill. We'd love to welcome in the new year with over 500 questions - can you do it?

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28/12/2021

We're getting closer, with only three days left!

What is the biggest plant in the world? How do parasitic plants survive? Which plants will survive climate change? How will they help us survive climate change?

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28/12/2021

If you haven't submitted yet, now's your chance!

RT! Share! Tell your neighbours! Get your toddler to dig deep!

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26/12/2021

Overdid it yesterday? Hungover? Fed up of bad xmas telly? Why not stretch your brain and think about why plants are so cool, and what you've always wanted to know about them?

You know the drill, only 5 days left!

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25/12/2021

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM THE 100PSQ TEAM! Love from Emily A, Emily L, Helen H, and Claire G.

Thanks for making this year so fun - our ideal Christmas present is you submitting your question here to help protect our plants forever!

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24/12/2021

It's Christmas Eve! However you're celebrating, why not take it to the next level and have a heated discussion with your family about what the most interesting plant is, and upload the outcome to our very fancy question form.

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23/12/2021

Psst... you only have 8 DAYS LEFT to submit your plant questions!

Why are they green? Why do we insist on lugging them into our house and decorating them in December? Why do some of them smell good?

Submit here! https://forms.office.com/r/KtxhV7a1SU

22/12/2021

Knock knock, who's there? here to remind you there's only NINE DAYS LEFT to help save our plant life.

How, you ask? Just drop a question here (plant adjacent, please) and a panel of experts will help us find the top 100!

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21/12/2021

21/12/2021

This is not a drill! You only have TEN DAYS LEFT to submit your world-changing plant questions! The weirder and wilder the better: what's the one thing you've always wanted to know?

Drop your questions here - nothing is off limits (as long as it's plant related, of course - we probably can't help you answer 'how to cook Christmas dinner stress free'...)
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