The latest issue of our Society-owned community magazine, The Biochemist, is out now!

For our latest issue, The Secret Language of Plants, featured articles explore creating a community-level resistance on an inter-cellular level, external factors and new applications emerging in this field.

Science Editor of The Biochemist, Dr Kakoli Bose (ACTREC, Tata Memorial Centre, India), shares her thoughts on this issue in her latest editorial:

“With a One Health approach at the forefront of a lot of recent research in the molecular biosciences, we are turning our heads to plant science for this issue and the hidden language they use to communicate. Communication is key to the survival of many different species, as humans we have evolved to have hundreds of languages, spoken and nonverbal, but we’re not the only species with sophisticated communication systems. In the last few years, science has revealed that plants have more complex networks and communication systems than previously assumed. In this issue, we explore these systems and how plants use communication to regulate themselves, warn each other and read their surroundings.

I hope that the contents of this issue will enhance our readers’ curiosity in plant science and plant communications and encourage you to continue learning how our own biology aligns with the world around us.”

Learn more about what’s included in this issue in Kakoli’s editorial.

Alongside our feature articles this issue also contains an interview with Biochemical Society Early Career Researcher Award winner, Juan Carlos de la Concepción who shares their work on plant-pathogen interactions.

We continue to provide updates and accounts from our members, including this year’s FEBS international sponsored places and reports from attendees at Society meetings on how these opportunities have provided the chance to share their work and helped to shape their professional development. Finally, we share updates from across the Society and Portland Press including the removal of a postgraduate qualification for Full and Early Career membership and changes to the model for Essays in Biochemistry.

The October issue provides a range of articles covering the broad reach of the molecular biosciences, showcasing the important work from our community.

Explore the full issue now!