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Latest Issues

Plant & Zo weekly roundup #32-2026

Welcome to the Plant & Zo weekly roundup, the newsletter about the latest plant science discoveries.

Confirming cause and effect and finding out how something causes something else are two different things. Both come with their own challen...

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Plant & Zo weekly roundup #31-2026

Welcome to the Plant & Zo weekly roundup, the newsletter about the latest plant science discoveries.

A warm welcome to all the subscribers who have joined since last time. Plants in general like to avoid self-fertilisation most of the time...

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In Conversation With Esther van den Bergh

Welcome to Plant & Zo in Conversation With where I talk with plant scientists about their research, and why they are interested in it. In this edition I talk with Esther van den Bergh.

Subscribe if you like more stories on how cool plants...

17 days ago
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Plant & Zo weekly roundup #30-2026

Welcome to the Plant & Zo weekly roundup, the newsletter about the latest plant science discoveries.

Sometimes it feels like all interesting papers come out all at once, and I am spoiled for choice. At other times it is hard to find a good...

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Plant & Zo weekly roundup #29-2026

Welcome to the Plant & Zo weekly roundup, the newsletter about the latest plant science discoveries.

Plant genetics keeps amazing me. Like today’s paper highlight which found a way in which plants buffer genetic variation that might be har...

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  • Femke de Jong

    I am a plant biochemist who is trying to make it as a science journalist. I have two newsletters. The first: Plant & Zo, where I write about plant science. The second called: About Academic Writing & Zo, about how to write better academic articles

  • Edgar Huitema, PhD

    I help Doctoral researchers make it through - and get more out of the experience while they do. I work with doctoral researchers, their supervisors, and institutions to build environments where they can flourish and do their best work.

  • Jochen Schenk

    Plant biologist, Cal State Fullerton professor; writing about all our human connections to plants and the natural world in science, history, culture, food, and everyday life.

  • Pedro Lourenço

    Wandering biologist sharing gentle reminders that nature is all around us, and we’re part of it. Essays on noticing nature, hiking the Pieterpad, and a serialization of my book Chronicles from a Planet that was Blue.

  • Barbara Stadler

    Seasonal observations from a garden, plant and wildlife lover in the Lower Austrian "Cider Quarter". My texts, based on experiences with our pesticide-free garden are definitely not AI, and the photographs were taken by myself whenever possible.

  • Oscar D. Garrett

    Plant Biology PhD student at UC Davis with a side of software dev. Trying to improve food security with protein engineering and machine learning, but am easily distracted by side projects...

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