Editorial Board and Staff

Editor-in-chief

Ykä (Yrjö) Helariutta
Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences
Institute of Biotechnology, HiLIFE
Helsinki, Finland
yrjo.helariutta@helsinki.fi
Area of expertise: vascular and root development, hormonal signalling, differentiation

Subject Editors

Metabolism & abiotic stress biology

Ron Mittler
University of North Texas, USA
ron.mittler@unt.edu
Area of expertise: oxidative stress, multiple abiotic stress, molecular ecology of desert plant

Plant ecophysiology & climate spaceissue

Ko Noguchi
Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, Japan
knoguchi@toyaku.ac.jp
Area of expertise: respiration, photosynthesis, mitochondria, primary metabolism, environmental changes, cost and benefit

Plant nutrition and spaceissue + spaceissue

Søren Husted
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
shu@plen.ku.dk
Area of expertise: plant nutrition, mineral ions, uptake, translocation, assimilation, photosynthesis, nanotechnology, global warming

Development, growth & differentiation

Yuling Jiao
Peking University, China
yuling.jiao@pku.edu.cn
Area of expertise: patterning, morphogenesis, leaf, axillary meristem, regeneration

Photobiology, photosynthesis & primary metabolism

Anja Krieger-Liszkay
Université Paris-Saclay, France
anja.krieger-liszkay@cea.fr
Area of expertise: photosynthesis, photosynthetic electron transport, abiotic stress, reactive oxygen species

Computational biology & data-driven resources

Nathaniel Street
Umeå University, Sweden
nathaniel.street@umu.se
Area of expertise: Genomics; natural variation; metatranscriptomics; genome assembly; co-expression networks

Biotic interactions adding some space

Ulrike Mathesius
Australian National University, Australia
ulrike.mathesius@anu.edu.au
Area of expertise: nitrogen fixation, nodulation, legumes, rhizobia, plant parasitic nematodes, plant hormones, flavonoids, root development, metabolomics, microscopy

Smart agronomy
– Crop improvement

Qingyu Wu and Cao Xu
Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning and Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, China
caoxu@genetics.ac.cn
Iwuqingyu@caas.cn
Area of expertise: crop genetics, plant development and stress resilience, genome editing and crop design, de novo domestication, maize genetics, inflorescence development, yield improvement, plant nutrients

Smart agronomy
– Biostimulants

Patrick H Brown
The University of California, USA
phbrown@ucdavis.edu
Area of expertise: biostimulants, plant nutrition, input optimization in agriculture, precision agriculture, yield optimization

Smart agronomy
– Precision agronomy

Uwe Rasher
Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
u.rascher@fz-juelich.de
Area of expertise: plant physiology, field phenotyping, biogeochemistry, ecology, global climate change, remote sensing, hyperspectral and fluorescence methods, image analysis

Commissioning Editor

Karl-Josef Dietz
University of Bielefeld, Germany
karl-josef.dietz@uni-bielefeld.de

Handling Editors

Jean-Christophe Avice
UMR INRAe/UCN 950 Ecophysiologie Végétale et Agronomie
Equipe INCCA – Interactions Nutritionnelles, Conduites et Contraintes Abiotiques
Université de Caen Normandie, France
jean-christophe.avice@unicaen.fr
Area of expertise:

Catherine Bellini
Umeå Plant Science Centre
Department of Plant Physiology
Umeå University, Sweden
catherine.Bellini@inrae.fr; catherine.bellini@umu.se
Area of expertise: phytohormone, auxin, root

Gerd Patrick Bienert
Technical University of Munich
TUM School of Life Sciences
Freising, Germany
patrick.bienert@tum.de
Area of expertise: plant nutrition, physiology, nutrient efficiency, nutrient deficiency, water, metalloids, boron, silicon, arsenic, transport, uptake, aquaporin, heterologous expression, ICP-MS, root architecture, phenotyping, hydrogen peroxide

Michael Bitterlich
Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institute for Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
LBerlin, Germany
michael.bitterlich@hu-berlin.de
Area of expertise: arbuscular mycorrhiza, plant nutrition, drought tolerance, plant-soil interactions, isotope tracing, plant gas exchange measurements and models, root uptake models, soil texture and hydraulics

Harry Brumer
Michael Smith Laboratories & Department of Chemistry
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, Canada
brumer@msl.ubc.ca
Area of expertise: enzymology, carbohydrates

Julia Buitink
INRAE – IRHS (Institut de Recherche en Horticulture et Semences)
Angers, France
julia.buitink@inrae.fr
Area of expertise: seed, desiccation tolerance, longevity, dormancy, germination

Florian A. Busch
School of Biosciences
University of Birmingham
Birmingham, UK
f.a.busch@bham.ac.uk
Area of expertise: plant physiology, respiration, photorespiration, carbon isotope discrimination, gas exchange, chlorophyll fluorescence

Petronia Carillo
Dept. of Environmental, Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies
University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Italy
petronia.carillo@unicampania.it
Area of expertise: crop physiology, metabolic profiling, N metabolism, salt stress, osmolytes, and biostimulants

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

Wah Soon (Fred) Chow
Research School of Biology
The Australian National University
Canberra, Australia
e-mail: fred.chow@anu.edu.au
Area of expertise: electron transport, thylakoid stacking, light acclimation

Sophie de Vries
Department of Applied Bioinformatics
Institute of Microbiology and Genetics
University of Goettingen, Germany
sophie.devries@uni-goettingen.de
Area of expertise: plant-microbe interaction, EvoMPMI, evolutionary analyses, comparative and functional genomics

Karl-Josef Dietz
Plant Biochemistry and Physiology
University of Bielefeld
Bielefeld, Germany
e-mail: karl-josef.dietz@uni-bielefeld.de
Area of expertise: Abiotic stress, photosynthesis, plant biochemistry, cell signaling, posttranscriptional regulation, redox regulation, reactive oxygen species, antioxidants

Christian Dubos
Institute for Plant Sciences of Montpellier (IPSiM)
Montpellier, France
christian.dubos@inrae.fr
Area of expertise: nutrition, iron homeostasis, transcriptional regulation, secondary metabolism

Alisdair Fernie
Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology
Potsdam, Germany
fernie@mpimp-golm.mpg.de
Area of expertise: primary metabolism, source sink interactions, metabolomics, TCA cycle, metabolic regulation, QTL anaylsis, GWAS

Jaume Flexas
Department of biology
Universitat de les Illes Balears
Palma de Mallorca, Spain
e-mail: jaume.flexas@uib.es
Area of expertise: plant ecophysiology, photosynthesis, gas exchange, sap flow, remote sensing, primary metabolism regulation/limitation, aquaporins, leaf anatomical properties, water stress

Christine H. Foyer
School of Biosciences
University of Birmingham
Birmingham, United Kingdom
e-mail: C.H.Foyer@bham.ac.uk
Area of expertise: redox biology and signalling, respiration and respiratory complex I, photosynthesis, CO₂ enrichment

Per Gardeström
Umeå Plant Science Centre
Department of Plant Physiology
Umeå University
Umeå, Sweden
e-mail: per.gardestrom@umu.se
Area of expertise: mitochondria, respiration/photorespiration, cell fractionation, senescence, chloroplast-mitochondria interaction

Thomas Greb
Centre for Organismal Studies (COS)
Heidelberg University
Heidelberg, Germany
thomas.greb@cos.uni-heidelberg.de
Area of expertise: developmental biology, gene regulation, cellular signaling, growth control

Aditi Gupta
Molecular Biology & Biotechnology Division,
CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI)
Lucknow, India
aditi.gupta25@nbri.res.in
Area of expertise: brassinosteroids, cell signaling, plant growth and adaptation, thermomorphogenesis, root Development

Marc Hanikenne
University of Liège, Belgium
marc.hanikenne@uliege.be
Area of expertise: metal homeostasis, metal tolerance, metal deficiency, nutrition, adaptation, physiology, abiotic stress, transcriptomics, cell imaging

Bingru Huang
Department of Plant Biology
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
New Brunswick, USA
huang@sebs.rutgers.edu
Area of expertise: stress physiology (heat, drought, salt), functional genomics, water relations, carbon/hormone/antioxidant/protein metabolisms

Tzu-Pi Huang
Academy of Circular Economy,
National Chung Hsing University
Nantou, Taiwan
tphuang@nchu.edu.tw
Area of expertise: biofilm, biocontrol, biopesticide, bofertilizer, biostimulant, Bacillus, Streptomyces, pesticides, plant pathology, quorum sensing

Vaughan Hurry
Umeå Plant Science Centre (UPSC)
Department of Forest Genetic and Plant Physiology
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Umeå, Sweden
vaughan.hurry@slu.se
Area of expertise: abiotic stress, cold tolerance, photosynthesis, carbon metabolism, sucrose transport

Tofazzal Islam
Institute of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (IBGE)
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, Bangladesh
tofazzalislam@bsmrau.edu.bd
Area of expertise: molecular plant-oomycete interactions, ecological chemistry, plant probiotics, secondary metabolites, genome editing, Genomics, CRISPR technology

Jian Jin
La Trobe Institute for Sustainable Agriculture and Food
La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
j.jin@latrobe.edu.au
Area of expertise: crop production; soil microbial community, phosphorus, rhizobium, nitrogen and soil organic carbon

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

Sheng-Hong Li
State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Plant Resources in West China
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yunnan, P. R. China
shli@mail.kib.ac.cn
Area of expertise: plant secondary metabolites, terpenoid diversity, biological activities, ecological functions, biosynthesis and synthetic biology, plant glandular trichomes

Huu-Sheng Lur
Department of Agronomy
National Taiwan University
lurhs@ntu.edu.tw
Area of expertise: Crop Physiology, Climate Change and Crop Production

Jian-Feng Mao
Umeå Plant Science Center
Sweden
jianfeng.mao@umu.se
Area of expertise: Genome assembly, Transposable Elements, Ecological Genomics, Genome Evolution

Stefan Martens
Fondazione Edmund Mach
San Michele all’Adige, Italy
stefan.martens@fmach.it
Area of expertise: plant secondary metabolites, polyphenols, flavonoids, biological activities, metabolomics, biosynthesis, gene discovery, transcriptomics, heterologous expression systems, synthetic biology

Marek Albert Mutwil
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore
mutwil@gmail.com
Area of expertise: gene function prediction, specialized metabolism, stress resilience, databases, algorithms

Ian Max Møller
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics
Science and Technology
Aarhus University
Aarhus, Denmark
ian.max.moller@mbg.au.dk
Area of expertise: mitochondria, respiration, proteomics, oxidative stress, seed physiology, protein oxidation

Benjamin Neuhäuser
University of Hohenheim
Institute of Crop Science
Stuttgart, Germany
benjamin.neuhaeuser@uni-hohenheim.de
Area of expertise: plant nutrition, plant physiology, transport physiology, ion transport, uptake, nitrogen, assimilation, molecular biology, electrophysiology

Michela Osnato
Plant Physiology and Molecular Farming Lab
Dipartimento Scienze Biomolecolari (DISB)
Università degli Studi di Urbino “Carlo Bo”, Italy
michela.osnato@uniurb.it
Area of expertise: developmental Genetics, leaf and flower development, regulation of gene expression & functional genomics, physiological response to abiotic stresses

Pirita Paajanen
John Innes Centre
UK
pirita.paajanen@jic.ac.uk
Area of experise: RNASeq, Genomics, bioinformatics

Majken Pagter
Department of Chemistry and Bioscience
Aalborg University, Denmark
mp@bio.aau.dk
Area of expertise: freezing tolerance, cold acclimation, deacclimation, physiological, metabolic and molecular responses to temperature changes, phenology

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

Francine Perrine-Walker
Centre of Carbon, Water and Food
The University of Sydney, Australia
marie.perrine-walker@sydney.edu.au
Area of expertise: nodulation, plant-microbe interactions, rhizobia, plant parasitic nematodes, plant hormones, plant fungal pathogens, root development, microscopy

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

Krista Plett
Plant Biosecurity Research and Diagnostics
New South Wales Department of Primary Industries
Menangle, Australia
Krista.plett@dpi.nsw.gov.au
Area of expertise: plant-fungal interactions, ectomycorrhizal fungi, nutrient acquisition, gene function, signalling, transcriptomics, metabolomics

Balakrishnan Prithiviraj
Department of Plant, Food, and Environmental Sciences
Faculty of Agriculture
Dalhousie University, USA
bprithiviraj@dal.ca
Area of expertise: marine bioproducts, plant biostimulants

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

Rosa M. Rivero
CEBAS-CSIC, Department of Plant Nutrition
Universitario de Espinardo
Murcia, Spain
rmrivero@cebas.csic.es
Area of expertise: plant physiology, plant biochemistry, abiotic stress combination, oxidative stress, plant molecular pathways and signalling

Jarkko Salojärvi
School of Biological Sciences
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore
jarkko@ntu.edu.sg
Area of expertise: Population genomics, computational modelling, evolution, molecular ecology

José M. Torres-Ruiz
Inst. de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiologia (IRNAS), CSIC
Seville, Spain
torresruizjm@gmail.com
Area of expertise: Plant hydraulics, tree mortality, xylem embolism, plant resistance to drought, drought-induced mortality

Daniela Tsikou
Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology
University of Thessaly, Greece
dtsikou@uth.gr
Area of expertise: plant symbiotic relationships, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, nitrogen-fixing rhizobia, legumes, tripartite interactions, autoregulation mechanisms, nutrient limitation, gene regulation

Yasuhiro Utsumi
Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences
Kyushu University, Japan
utsumi@forest.kyushu-u.ac.jp
Area of expertise: wood anatomy, secondary growth, water transport in plants

Aalt Dirk Jan van Dijk
Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences
University of Amsterdam
The Netherlands
a.d.j.vandijk@uva.nl
Area of expertise: machine learning, algorithms, gene function prediction, protein structure

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

Ramesh Raju Vetukuri
Department of Plant Breeding
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Alnarp, Sweden
ramesh.vetukuri@slu.se
Area of expertise: Plant-pathogen interactions, biocontrol, omics, small RNAs, microbiomes

Ning ZHANG
State Key Laboratory of Wheat Improvement
College of Agronomy
Shandong Agricultural University, China
nzhang@sdau.edu.cn
Area of expertise: crop plant and root architecture, gravitropism, stem cell and epigenetics, RNA-Seq, ATAC-Seq, ChIP, CUT&RUN, FACS, and FANS