Genome-specific association study (GSAS) for exploration of variability in hemp (Cannabis sativa).

Hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) is a versatile crop with substantial potential for creating productive, sustainable, and resilient agricultural systems. However, in contrast to other crops such as cereals, hemp is highly heterozygous, resulting in both challenges and opportunities for agriculture, breeding, and research.

Priced out of belonging? Insufficient concessions on membership fees across international societies in ecology and evolution.

Learned societies, as professional bodies for scientists, are an integral part of the scientific system. However, their membership fees have the potential to be prohibitive to the most vulnerable members of the scientific community. To shed light on how membership fees are structured, we conducted a survey of 182 international learned societies relevant to researchers in ecology and evolution.

"Best Paper" awards lack transparency, inclusivity, and support for Open Science.

Awards can propel academic careers. They also reflect the culture and values of the scientific community. But do awards incentivize greater transparency, inclusivity, and openness in science? Our cross-disciplinary survey of 222 awards for the "best" journal articles across all 27 SCImago subject areas revealed that journals and learned societies administering such awards generally publish little detail on their procedures and criteria.

Firming up your tomato: a natural promoter variation in a MADS-box gene is causing all-flesh tomatoes.

This article comments on: 2022. All-flesh fruit in tomato is controlled by reduced expression dosage of through a structural variant mutation in the promoter. Journal of Experimental Botany , 123–138.