Nicola Spence: How the global threat of pests and diseases impacts plants, people, and the planet

Alexandre Antonelli: Testing traditional plant knowledge using genomic tools

Jessica Turner-Skoff: The benefits of trees for livable and sustainable communities

Susanne Renner: Narrowing down the domestication history of watermelon with ancient seeds and DNA

Eric Bishop-von Wettburg: The Queen of Sheba's chickpeas

Katie Field: The roots of change – global change and mycorrhizal symbiosis through the Phanerozoic

Evan Delucia: Farming with rocks – using agriculture to reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere

Ned Friedman: Can botanical gardens do more to promote societal understanding of evolution?

Julie Hawkins: People and medicinal plants

Colin Khoury: Developing indicators of the importance and conservation status of valuable plants

Richard Buggs: Genomics for future trees

Toby Pennington: The dry tropics – science, conservation and restoration

Jenny Williams: Drone survey mapping – illegal deforestation detection

Paul Smith: Integrated plant conservation

Crystal McMichael: Holocene increases in palm abundances in northwestern Amazonia

Stephanie Smith: Multinational and multidisciplinary approaches to solving global challenges

Oscar A. Pérez-Escobar: Tracing the domestication history of the date palm

Andrew Groover: Understanding the genetic basis of quantitative trait variation in Populus

Cicely Marshall: Guinea's bauxite: priorities for plant conservation and economic development

Pam Diggle: Does variation in flower development explain phenological responses to temperature?

Rich Norby: Rapid loss of an ecosystem engineer – Sphagnum

Antje Ahrends: The impact of rubber on forests in South East Asia

Adriane Tobias: Rafflesia banaoana, a unique and magnificent flower of the Banao Community

Zoë Migicovsky: Genomic consequences of apple domestication

Chris Thorogood: Engaging people with plants

Dawn Sanders: Standing in the shadows of plants