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Interviews

"My advice for early career researchers: once you've written a manuscript, ask friends and colleagues, particularly those outside your field, to have a look at it."

Editor-in-Chief, Alistair Hetherington, talks about his role at the journal, what makes a great paper, why you should submit your manuscript to New Phytologist, and some tips for early career researchers.

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Recorded at the 38th New Phytologist Symposium: Colonization of the terrestrial environment by Leeds Media, July 2016.

Interview with Alistair Hetherington, Editor-in-Chief, New Phytologist

"Be curious, be passionate, and learn from people around you. Trust your curiosity and let it be your teacher."

New Phytologist Editor Maarja Öpik talks about her work in plant science and plant-fungi interactions, describes why she became a scientist, and provides some advice for early-career researchers.

Recorded at the 38th New Phytologist Symposium: Colonization of the terrestrial environment, by Leeds Media, July 2016.

Interview with Maarja Öpik, Interaction Editor, New Phytologist

"I think one of the most exciting results of the paper is the clear phenotype. When you are doing an experiment in the greenhouse and you harvest the plants, you really see a very strong effect when the plants are colonised by beneficial microbes."

New Phytologist author Ainhoa Martínez-Medina tells us why a fungus might not be such a bad thing for tomatoes, in the fight against nematodes, provides some tips for early career researchers, and shares who inspired her to be a scientist.

Read the paper: Martínez-Medina, A., Fernandez, I., Lok, G. B., Pozo, M. J., Pieterse, C. M. J. and Van Wees, S. C. M. (2016) Shifting from priming of salicylic acid- to jasmonic acid-regulated defences by Trichoderma protects tomato against the root knot nematode Meloidogyne incognita. New Phytologist. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.14251

Ainhoa was speaking to Mike Whitfield.

With a little help from my fungus: interview with Ainhoa Martínez-Medina

Etienne Laliberté, winner of the 2016 New Phytologist Tansley Medal for excellence in plant science, describes how he became interested in plant science, the thought process behind his Tansley insight 'Below-ground frontiers in trait-based plant ecology', the hot topics in the field and his advice for early-career researchers.

Read Etienne's Tansley insight: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.14247/full

Find out more about the New Phytologist Tansley Medal: https://www.newphytologist.org/tansleymedal

Interview with Etienne Laliberté - winner of the Tansley Medal 2016

'Pursue questions that really interest you, do things that you like to do - I think that that's the best advice - because if you can maintain that enthusiasm, if you really maintain the joy in what you're doing in science, that will transmit itself into a successful career.'

Professor Amy Austin, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, is an Editor for New Phytologist, in the Environment section of the journal. She is the 2018 L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Laureate for Latin America: https://www.fondationloreal.com/posts/2018-l-oreal-unesco-for-women-in-science-awards/fr

Interview with Amy Austin, Environment Editor, New Phytologist

"There are three important qualities in a good scientist: dedication, communication, and openness."

Prof Francis Martin is Section Editor for the Interaction section of New Phytologist. Listen to the interview to find out what he thinks the hot topics in plant-soil interactions are, and his advice for early career researchers.

Interview with Francis Martin, Interaction Section Editor

The New Phytologist Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the promotion of plant science. We own two journals: New Phytologist, and Plants, People, Planet. Our activities range from funding symposia and workshops, to sponsoring prizes for early career researchers, to ensuring free access for a wide range of published research articles.