We welcome manuscripts improving our mechanistic understanding of patterning, morphogenesis, growth, and differentiation.
Areas of particular emphasis include transcriptional control mechanisms, cellular patterning, signal transduction, and cellular processes of development.
In addition to studies seeking a fundamental understanding of plant form, we also welcome studies that explore the practical implications of developmental biology in agriculture and horticulture.
Subject Editor
Yuling Jiao
School of life science
Peking University
Beijing, China
yuling.jiao@pku.edu.cn
Area of expertise: patterning, morphogenesis, leaf, axillary meristem, regeneration
Handling Editors
Catherine Bellini
Umeå Plant Science Centre
Department of Plant Physiology
Umeå University
Umeå, Sweden
catherine.bellini@umu.se
Area of expertise: phytohormone, auxin, root
Julia Buitink
INRAE – IRHS (Institut de Recherche en Horticulture et Semences)
France
julia.buitink@inrae.fr
Area of expertise: seed, desiccation tolerance, longevity, dormancy, germination
Jianghua Chen
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG)
Chinese Academy of Science
Kunming,China
jhchen@xtbg.ac.cn
Area of expertise: plant development, compound leaf, legume, leaf movement, gene regulation
Hyung-Taeg Cho
School of Biological Sciences
Seoul National University
Seoul, Republic of Korea
htcho@snu.ac.kr
Area of expertise: auxin transport and signaling, root hair 
Thomas Greb
Centre for Organismal Studies (COS)
Heidelberg University
Heidelberg, Germany
thomas.greb@cos.uni-heidelberg.de
Area of expertise: cell fate determination, vascular development, hormonal signaling, gene regulation
Rozenn Le Hir
Université Paris-Saclay,
INRAE, AgroParisTech, Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin (IJPB),
Versailles, France
rozenn.le-hir@inrae.fr
Area of expertise: sugar transport, sugar allocation, phloem, xylem, development, abiotic stresses
Techniques of expertise: molecular biology, metabolomic, infrared spectroscopy, anatomy/cytology, cellular imaging
Elena Monte
CRAG, Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics
Campus UAB
Barcelona, Spain
elena.monte@cragenomica.es
Area of expertise: Light perception and signaling, phytochromes, deetiolation and diurnal growth, chloroplast retrograde signaling
Soraya Pelaz
Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG)
Campus UAB
Barcelona, Spain
soraya.pelaz@cragenomica.es
Area of expertise: flower development, flowering time, plant development, genetic
Edouard Pesquet
Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences
Stockholm University
Stockholm, Sweden
edouard.pesquet@su.se
Area of expertise: xylem, primary and secondary cell wall, plant cell culture, programmed cell death, cytoskeleton
Venugopala Gonehal Reddy
Department of Botany and plant sciences,
University of California Riverside
USA
venug@ucr.edu
Area of expertise: WUSCHEL, CLAVATA3, stem cells, shoot apex, stochastic and deterministic models, sub-cellular element models of cell and tissue growth, live imaging.
Yuan Qin
Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University
China
yuanqin001@foxmail.com
Area of expertise: plant reproduction, ovule development, female gametophyte development, pollen tube, male-female interaction, transcriptome, single-cell RNA-seq
Jianru Zuo
Center for Genome Biology
Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing, China
jrzuo@genetics.ac.cn
Area of expertise: nitric oxide signalling, nitrogen nutrition and cytokinin signalling