Max has been with me for almost 15 years, but he is now leaving academia for a position in the private sector that offers much better job security.

I was rather hesitant when Juan Jiménez approached me and suggested that we should spend more than 5,000 USD on a new scanner! He insisted that we needed it for state-of-the-art root analyses.

During the ISPLORE Conference in Germany, September 2022, Functional Plant Biology offered to publish a special issue on the conference topic. The papers are now available online and free to view.

Shiono's group at Fukui University, Japan, has once again contributed to our understanding of the regulation of the root barrier to radial O2 loss. Annals of Botany requested our commentary on his recent paper

Partial or complete submergence of trees can occur in natural wetlands during times of high waters - check out this new study on flood tolerance of the Swamp Cypress