Ian Wright

📢🌶️🌿Tech-savvy with expertise in agriculture or horticulture? Join Western Sydney Uni’s APPN team as Senior Technical Officer and support world-leading research in plant phenotyping across state-of-the-art facilities @westsyduhie. Closing 8.30pm, 16 Feb. tinyurl.com/47nezhnm

📢🌿Wind and frost have surprisingly strong effects on global patterns in leaf cuticle thickness! Latitude, biome and taxonomy matter too. Other enviro variables not so much. Research from international team including @lawrensack. @westsyduhie @NewPhyt doi.org/10.1111/nph.70…

Hot off the press: Metabolic traits are shaped by phylogenetic conservatism and environment, not just body size pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Our article in PNAS explores several controversies in metabolic theory in a macroscale study of 🐜 #aridity #temp #DGC 📸:François Brassard

We have just opened searches for three new continuing Teaching & Research Academics.  All positions are open at Level B (Lecturer) or Level C (Senior Lecturer), and we have one position in Genomics and two in Ecology. careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/job/… careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/job/…

It’s alive! Our Mycorrhizal Networks special issue is out in @FunEcology. Packed with spore-tacular science. A collection that highlights advances, identifies unresolved questions & the future research directions. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

New research reveals the amount of carbon dioxide released by trees could be considerably less than predicted Find out more: shorturl.at/myRAP Read the article: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… @ianjwright1

🚨We're #hiring! Join Plant Success as an Outreach Officer 🌱 Use your skills in science, education & engagement to inspire curiosity & connect with schools, students & communities. 📍 UQ St Lucia 🔗 bit.ly/PS-OO #Jobs #ScienceOutreach

♻️Development and application of an inexpensive open-source dendrometer for detecting xylem water potential and radial stem growth at high spatial and temporal resolution by Sean M Gleason and co-authors Full #openaccess 👉 doi.org/10.1093/aobpla… #PlantScience

🌿 One not to miss! Our latest blog by Prof. Colin Prentice dives into the P-model, exploring the challenges we face and our plans to address them. Discover how we're refining this powerful tool for predicting plant photosynthesis. 🌎🌱 🔗 Read more: research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/the-…

Leaf nitrogen demand matters! Thrilled to share our new paper just published in Ecology Letters onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/el…

📢  In collaboration with @CoEPlantSuccess, we've launched Best Practice Guidelines for scientists working with genetic resources. By applying the Guidelines, scientists will benefit from a clear, uniform approach that: ✅ Recognises the rights and interests of those who…

Who is Santa Claus? Why does he look like that? And where did he come from? All these questions, answered...

Toward understanding how cross-kingdom ecological strategies interactively influence soil carbon cycling 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np… #Commentary by Kane et al. highlighting the recent work by Zhang et al. 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/VIV6TZKB… @biogeojen @binutripathi @Jbadger13372361

JOB VACANCY A great opportunity to work as a Senior Research Fellow (crop physiology) with a supportive and successful sorghum research team in beautiful Queensland. @QAAFI @UQ_News @SorgGuy Application details in link below: Tinyurl.com/4mbha5hf

Check out our new #siliceousplants paper, with @MartinHodson1 @ianjwright1 @peta_clode @plants_patty @Ryosuke_Si and more! @BiolSci_UWA

We are looking for a Senior Research Fellow (Crop Physiology) to work with our sorghum research group. This is a great opportunity to build an impactful career in a supportive research environment 5-year contract. tinyurl.com/yc7f6ekf

Temporal shifts and phylogenetic clustering in AM fungal communities linked with the benefits delivered to Sorghum bicolor, could host selection be key? More on this to come soon 🫣 link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Excited to announce that advertisement for the Centre manager is now live. Please share among your network. eRecruit for UWS - Ref 4907/24 Centre Manager, ARC Training Centre for Smart & Sustainable Horticulture, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment uws.nga.net.au/cp/index.cfm?e…

An integrated fast–slow plant and nematode economics spectrum predicts soil organic carbon dynamics during natural restoration Zhang et al. 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/EWGFRCGP…

Next week we are hosting a #webinar by Vanessa Adams on the dynamics of plant species retention in the landscape 🗓️ 13 November 🕙 11am-12pm (AEST) / 12-1pm (AEDT) 📍 Register: bit.ly/TPS-VA Join us to deepen your understanding of #conservation challenges & innovations