Hello ASPS members, In this short edition of Phytogen we have a research profile from ASPS member Dr Francine Perrine-Walker (The University of Sydney). See below. Rare gardening and botanical books for sale! An expert gardener’s 50 yr lifetime collection of gardening books is for sale, the entire collection is worth around $6,000. It includes rare and specialist horticultural and botanical books.  Some of these are out of print and simply no longer available. Others are leather bound etc. There are also stunning coffee table picture books. The seller, Graeme, would prefer not to sell the ..read more

Hello ASPS members, The May edition of Phytogen can be downloaded HERE! Congratulations to Professor Ros Gleadow who has been elected as a 2024 Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. Ros also served as President of our Society between 2010 and 2012. In April ASPS Corresponding member Professor Keiko Torii was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences. In May Professor Torii also received the Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon conferred by the Emperor of Japan at the Imperial Palace. Congratulations Professor Torii from the Australian Society of Plant Scientists. More on these tw ..read more

Welcome to the May edition of Phytogen! Winter is coming… all over Australia, but the Society continues to shine thanks to its dedicated members. This issue highlights Dr Dugald Reid’s (ASPS whole plant representative contribution) newly installed laboratory at La Trobe University, as well as Dr. Neeta Lohani’s Science Meets Parliament 2023 report and Dr Celine Mens’ R.N. Robertson Travelling Fellowship 2023 report.   Whole Plant Representative contribution Dugald Reid, Group Leader, School of Agriculture, Biomedicine and Environment, La Trobe University. Overview of legume nodulatio ..read more

This month in Phytogen we introduce our new Website and Communications Sub Committee including the new editors of Phytogen, Razlin Azman and Lucas Auroux. Fascination of Plants day is 18th May 2024. Get in contact with Scott Boden if you have ideas or want to get involved. We have the first 2024 Science Meets Parliament report for Lim Chee and the 2023 ASPS Education and Outreach Award report by winners Robert Sharwood, Michelle Donovan-Mak, Jayakumar Bose, David Randall, Jing He, Oula Ghannoum and Zhonghua Chen. Announcing an extension to 2024 ASPS award applications to Sunday April 28th for ..read more

  THE DAVID SYME RESEARCH PRIZE   Nominations are now invited for the 2023 David Syme Research Prize. The Australia-wide prize recognises the best original research in Biology, Physics, Chemistry or Geology produced* in Australia during the past two years (1 January 2022 – 31 December 2023). *Produced – e.g. published   The David Syme Research Prize is managed by the Faculty of Science at the University of Melbourne.   Summary details are: Value: approx. $10,000, and a medal Closing date: 30 April 2024   The prize is made by nomination&nbs ..read more

  THE DAVID SYME RESEARCH PRIZE   Nominations are now invited for the 2023 David Syme Research Prize. The Australia-wide prize recognises the best original research in Biology, Physics, Chemistry or Geology produced* in Australia during the past two years (1 January 2022 – 31 December 2023). *Produced – e.g. published   The David Syme Research Prize is managed by the Faculty of Science at the University of Melbourne.   Summary details are: Value: approx. $10,000, and a medal Closing date: 30 April 2024   The prize is made by nomination&nbs ..read more

Hello ASPS members, Our 2024 ASPS awards are now open! Details including application form and rules for each award can be found on the ASPS web site or through the links below. Closing date is April 5th 2024, except the Student Travel Award which is 29th March 2024. These include the: Peter Goldacre Award Jan Anderson Award ASPS Education and Outreach Award R.N. Robertson Travel Award Student Travel Awards   Due 29th March 2024 Details including application form and rules for each award can be found on the ASPS web site or through the links above. Closing date is April 5th 2024, exce ..read more

Hello ASPS members, Welcome to 2024. Save the date for our 2024 ASPS Hybrid meeting in your state, Thursday 28th November 2024.  Thank you to Dr Georgia Koerber for her service to our Society as Phytogen’s Editor for the past 5 years. The January edition of Phytogen includes profiles of the latest ASPS Life member, Emeritus Professor Hans Lambers and Corresponding Member, Professor Steve Long. Yuhan Liu and Amanda Johnson’s award reports are also included. Access Phytogen HERE. The January newsletter for The Global Plant Council is available HERE ..read more

Welcome to Phytogen for 2024. In this edition we start the year with a new ASPS Life Member Emeritus Professor Hans Lambers and new Corresponding member Professor Steve Long. Details below. The 2023 Plant nutrition Trust report by Yuhan Liu. Amanda Johnson’s report on her ASPS student travel award. Remember to save the date for the ASPS Hybrid meeting in your state, Thursday 28th November 2024. Thank you to Dr Georgia Koerber for her service to our Society as Phytogen’s Editor for the past 4 years.   ASPS Life Member Emeritus Professor Hans Lambers University of Western Australia   H ..read more

Dear ASPS members, Applications for student travel awards to the International Plant Molecular Biology (IPMB) congress in Cairns (24-28 June 2024) are now OPEN. This major event covers the gamut of current topics relating to plant molecular biology, and is a special opportunity for us to showcase Australian plant science. We expect 600+ delegates and it would make a great impression to our visitors to see strong representation from the ASPS membership. The provisional program with an exciting line-up of confirmed speakers is here. Early bird student and ECR registration is great value at $495 ..read more