Cycas circinalis growing 35 stories up in Sky Garden, London. Cool where plants get to!

Early soil ecosystem team ⁦EPPC2018⁩. Great job ⁦Paul Kenrick⁩ ⁦Sandy Hetherington⁩ ⁦@RiaLMitchell⁩ ⁦@JennyL_Morris⁩ ⁦Benjamin Mills⁩

400 million year old fossils shed light on early evolution of plant rooting systems nature.com/articles/s4158…

Wonderful to be in Wyoming digging dinosaurs with @Tweetisaurus Victoria Egerton @DrPhilManning and teams from Natural History Museum The Children's Museum and Earth Sciences at the University of Manchester. Finding fossil plants too – building picture of environments and food resources. #MissionJurassic #wedigdinos Natural History Museum

Happy to see our Primer on the Rhynie chert published in Current Biology today 😊The%20Rhynie%20chert https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencedirect.com%2Fscience%2Farticle%2Fpii%2FS0960982219313703

New evidence for biogenicity of 3,465 million year old Apex Chert fossils pnas.org/cgi/content/lo…

How land plant life cycles first evolved | Science Fossils and developmental genetics reveal early changes in plant life cycle science.sciencemag.org/content/358/63…

Strangest things: fossils reveal how fungus shaped life on Earth d.gu.com/QBP2Sp

Our recent Royal Society Publishing paper gets a write up in the Guardian Science blog today :-) Thanks @susieoftraken! theguardian.com/science/2018/j… Benjamin Mills Sarah Batterman Plant Sciences Leeds #fungus #mycorrhizas #RhynieChert

Latest paper from the lab attempts to reconcile paleontological and molecular biological perspectives on the timing of origin of flowering plants onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

The timescale of early land plant evolution | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - our analysis indicates a probable Cambrian origin of land plants whichever family tree you choose pnas.org/content/early/…

Palms going in look fantastic! Thank you Robbie Blackhall-Miles Robbie Blackhall-Miles

Interested in Carboniferous plants, visit the website jrpm2018.eu and join the meeting in June. Registration is open!

The origin and evolution of mycorrhizal symbioses: from palaeomycology to phylogenomics - Strullu‐Derrien - - New Phytologist - Wiley Online Library nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Embryophyte stress signaling evolved in the algal progenitors of land plants | PNAS Interesting insights into exaptations to life on land in algal ancestors Jan de Vries pnas.org/content/early/…

Sporophytes of polysporangiate land plants from the early Silurian period may have been photosynthetically autonomous | Nature Plants - New early Cooksonia fossils could be interesting for plant life cycle evolution nature.com/articles/s4147…

“Every breath of air, every mouthful of food...we depend in plants”. David Attenborough re-opening the glorious new Temperate House KewGardens. A cathedral of air, light - and plants!

Fantastic reconstruction of the Carboniferous flora from western France by Victor O. Leshyk who is working with our team of paleobotanists

Celebrating the election of Greg Edgecombe to the Royal Society. Congratulations!!!

Congratulations Sandy! x.com/cstrulluderrie…