Congratulations to Ellen Weinheimer on publication of her paper “Differential gene reactions reveal drought response strategies in African acacias” in The Plant Journal this week. This is the first genome-scale study of African acacias and introduces a new modeling technique called “Differential Gene Reactions” to test for relative changes in gene expressions underlying drought stress in these amazing trees. Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tpj.70385