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Volume 72, Issue 1, Spring 2026

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By May Berenbaum, Amy C Morey, Ricky Lara
| Oxford Academic Verified
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Political and biological reality checks

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By May Berenbaum, Megan Barnet, Katherine Jackson, Byulleten yarovizatsii
| PNAS Verified
One of the lectures I remember most clearly from an economic botany class at Yale University that I took more than 50 years ago was about vegetables in the family Cruciferae (now Brassicaceae). In that lecture, James Rodman, the professor, described the work of Georgii Karpechenko, a Soviet botanist who had hybridized two brassicaceous plants, Raphanus radishes and Brassica cabbage, to create a new genus, Raphanobrassica, through allopolyploidy (1).
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On peer review—then, now, and soon to be? | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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By May Berenbaum, Francesco Alemanno, Marta Maria Cavo, Donatella Delle Cave
| PNAS Verified
Skip to main content I’m not by nature a revolutionary, but, when I became editor-in-chief of PNAS, I found myself in the metaphorical equivalent of a center mezzanine seat for an ongoing revolution, albeit a slow-moving and (mostly) bloodless one.
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