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Engineering fungi to help plants fight disease – Author interview with Geoffrey Zahn

Engineering fungi to help plants fight disease – Author interview with Geoffrey Zahn

by PeerJ Community | Nov 15, 2017 | Community, Interviews

Last week we published Foliar microbiome transplants confer disease resistance in a critically-endangered plant by Geoffrey Zahn and Anthony Amend. Their study tested whether fungi could be engineered and employed to help plants respond to fight disease, thereby...
Environmental Sciences fee waivers, tweets on article pages, salamander mummy – PeerJ Monthly Newsletter

Environmental Sciences fee waivers, tweets on article pages, salamander mummy – PeerJ Monthly Newsletter

by PeerJ Community | Nov 3, 2017 | Community

Here’s a quick round-up of the latest news and journal developments from the PeerJ team in October. To get the latest updates and perspectives on scholarly publishing in the 21st century, sign up for our content alerts. Spotlight on: PeerJ’s Environmental...
Idea farming for open science: sharing wider scientific outputs will stimulate ideas, discoveries and outcomes.

Idea farming for open science: sharing wider scientific outputs will stimulate ideas, discoveries and outcomes.

by PeerJ Community | Oct 26, 2017 | Community, Guest Post, Preprints

This is a guest post written by PeerJ Academic Editor Christopher Lortie, who recently shared a preprint on PeerJ Preprints discussing optimal ways of cultivating ideas for scientific discovery. Invasion biology shows that there is a lot to be learned from studying...
Chimpanzees spontaneously use tools to scoop food, no teaching necessary – Author interview with Elisa Bandini

Chimpanzees spontaneously use tools to scoop food, no teaching necessary – Author interview with Elisa Bandini

by PeerJ Community | Oct 4, 2017 | Interviews

Credit: Chimpanzee, taken at the Los Angeles Zoo by Aaron Logan (CC BY 2.5) We recently published Spontaneous reoccurrence of “scooping”, a wild tool-use behaviour, in naïve chimpanzees by Elisa Bandini and Claudio Tennie. Their research looks at the individual...
Practical data science tips, machine learning at PeerJ and blue-green dinosaur eggs – PeerJ monthly newsletter

Practical data science tips, machine learning at PeerJ and blue-green dinosaur eggs – PeerJ monthly newsletter

by PeerJ Community | Oct 3, 2017 | Community

Here’s a quick round-up of the latest news and journal developments from the PeerJ team in September. To get the latest updates and perspectives on scholarly publishing in the 21st century, sign up for our content alerts. Spotlight on: Practical Data Science for Stats...
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