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The New Phytologist Tansley Medal 2017

2018; Wiley; Volume: 219; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/nph.15238

1469-8137

Sarah Lennon, Liam Dolan,

Plant responses to water stress

The New Phytologist Tansley Medal is awarded annually to an outstanding scientist in the early stages of his or her career in recognition of their contribution to the field. We are delighted to announce that the recipient of the 2017 Tansley Medal is Dr Stella Cesari of UMR BGPI, INRA, Montpellier, France. Stella's research focuses on plant disease resistance, and her work on immunity receptors led to the development of the integrated decoy (ID) model, which has become a paradigm in the study of plant disease resistance. The diversity of architecture and function of plant immune receptors, as well as the ID model, is the focus of Stella's Tansley insight, ‘Multiple strategies for pathogen perception by plant immune receptors’ (Cesari, 2018a, pp. 17–24) that is published in this issue of New Phytologist. For more information on Stella and her research please see her profile in this issue of the journal (Cesari, 2018b, pp. 15–16), and visit the Tansley Medal pages of the New Phytologist Trust website, https://newphytologist.org/tansley-medal-2017. The first Tansley Medal was awarded in 2010 and in the intervening years scientists across the whole spectrum of plant sciences have been recipients (Woodward & Hetherington, 2010, 2011; Dolan, 2012, 2013, 2014; Lennon & Dolan, 2015, 2016, 2017). This diversity is also evident in the work of this year's finalists. The diverse range of Tansley insight reviews in this issue focus on topics such as the role of the nuclear pore complex (NPC) constituents in immune activation and hormone signaling in plant cells; the evolutionary forces shaping genotype-by-environment interactions (G × E); the kinetic basis of plant growth, at the organ, individual and ecosystem level; genetic resistance to crop diseases; and the prediction of variation in savanna ecosystems. We are delighted to offer our congratulations to Stella and her fellow finalists. We wish them well in their future careers and look forward to following their continued success. The judging panel for the 2017 Tansley Medal was comprised of the following New Phytologist Editors: Prof. Amy Austin, Prof. Liam Dolan, Prof. Alistair Hetherington, Prof. Elena Kramer and Prof. Natalia Requena.