New paper: obligate seeding (repopulation via seed germination) enables #Banksia cunninghamii populations to persist after fire. But increasing fire frequency & severity threatens the future of this species, writes Annette Muir & colleagues DEECA Victoria doi.org/10.1071/BT24048

We're at ##ESAus2024 in Melbourne! Visit Briana (right) at the CSIRO Publishing stand to chat about publishing with us or our sister journals.

Journal Manager Patrick Hannah has been at #IC24 this week, chatting to delegates about Australian Journal of Chemistry, as well as catching up with Editor-in-Chief george koutsantonis & Social Media Ed Masnun Naher. Be sure to drop by our stand tomorrow for a chat! #Inorganic24 #AusJChem RACI Inorganic Chemistry Division

Hey plant people! Australian Journal of Botany has its own new handle ⁦Australian Journal of Botany⁩ Please follow to get all the latest highlights. Fun fact: ⁦John Morgan⁩ and I (here looking out to AJB's bright future😊) are the Editors-in-Chief. Come say hi at #ESAus2024

Throwback to our 2016 special issue on rare plants, where we explored the genetics, ecology, and conservation of highly threatened species across Australia. publish.csiro.au/bt/collection/…

Macairea radula is an evergreen shrub native Brazil, Bolivia & Paraguay, often parasitised by gall wasps. New research by Patrícia Santos Dias & colleagues UFU reveals how gall wasp pupae induce nutritive changes in the cells of their host doi.org/10.1071/BT23064

Named after the orangutan 🦧, a new pitcher plant is described from Borneo by Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria botanist Dr Alastair Robinson @botanydoc and colleagues in Malaysia. See: publish.csiro.au/bt/Fulltext/BT… 📸: A. Damit; A. Robinson; Nur Adillah Yusof #RBGVScience RBG Victoria

#New paper: Leandro Dias da Silva & colleagues from Uesb report on a faster, cheaper field-ready method to estimate chlorophyll content in Eucalyptus urophylla and Khaya senegalensis seedlings doi.org/10.1071/BT24019

Giant Hairy Pitcher Plant Discovered In Northern Borneo | Sabah Forestry Department, Cairns Botanic Gardens Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria RBG Victoria, published by Australian Journal of Botany by Rage Against The Regime 🇺🇦 #NewSpecies #botany #conservation #Borneo #SciComm forbes.com/sites/grrlscie…

Have you heard about the Australian Reference Genome Atlas? It's a digital atlas researchers can use to easily discover and work with genomic data. 🌱🐨🧬 Researchers can use this resource to to better-understand the environment 🌳 spr.ly/6015vfe9L

New Year, new paper. We're half way through the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021 - 2030), and fittingly, Jamie Kirkpatrick (requiescat in pace) and colleagues report on 50 years native vegetation change in Hobart's urban parklands َ🧵 doi.org/10.1071/BT24042

#openaccess Biocontrols manage invasive plants & can impact related, non-target species. Stephanie Chen & colleagues from Parks Australia CSIRO use molecular analysis to determine whether the rare daisy fleabane (Erigeron conyzoides) might be at risk doi.org/10.1071/BT24047

#openaccess No increase in detections although greaster sampling of sentinel host species needed to monitor Phytophthora cinnamomi disease progression in southern Sydney. Tanya Mason and colleagues Ecosystem Science doi.org/10.1071/BT24037

1:30 PM UPDATE, THURS 23 JAN: The time has finally come! Putricia has started to bloom. Palm House will be open until midnight tonight (Thursday) and reopen from 8am tomorrow (Friday). bit.ly/3PDAOi7

Good news for authors in lower income countries wishing to publish #OpenAccess. Through our partnership with Research4Life we are now able to waiver Author Processing Charges for authors from eligible regions for most of our journals. Details: publish.csiro.au/journals/lower…

#openaccess Heat from fire triggers germination of golden top wattle seeds (Acacia mariae) - particularly following very severe, intense fires, writes Boyd Wright & colleagues Uni of New England UQ News doi.org/10.1071/BT24023

#openaccess Eucalytpus regnans confirmed the tallest flowering plant in the world, following survey of Tasmanian wet forests. Brett Mifsud & colleagues @utas_ UW SEFS 🌲 doi.org/10.1071/BT23088

Happy #ThickTrunkTuesday! 🌲 Tasmania is a global hotspot for giant trees! 🌏🌳 #DahlFellow Brett Mifsud & team found 18+ eucalypts over 90m, with ‘Centurion’ standing at 96m. Read the study: publish.csiro.au/bt/Fulltext/BT… & Guardian coverage: theguardian.com/environment/20… 🌿 📸: Supplied

#openaccess Understanding seed lifespan is allowing seedbanks like Kings Park to prioritise seed collection for wild species conservation, writes Sundari Balasubramaniam & colleagues from Murdoch University Research UWA Aarhus University doi.org/10.1071/BT24065