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
Søren
Husted
Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Areas of expertise: assimilation, global warming, mineral ions, nanotechnology, photosynthesis, plant nutrition, translocation, uptake
shu@plen.ku.dk Research webpage
Ron
Mittler
College of Agriculture, food and natural resources University of Missouri, USA
Areas of expertise: molecular ecology of desert plant, multiple abiotic stress, oxidative stress
MittlerR@missouri.edu Research webpage
Anja
Krieger-Liszkay
Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Université Paris-Saclay, France
Areas of expertise: abiotic stress, photosynthetic electron flow, reactive oxygen species, regulation of photosynthesis
anja.krieger-liszkay@cea.fr Research webpage
Ko
Noguchi
Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, Tokyo, Japan
Areas of expertise: cost and benefit, environmental changes, mitochondria, photosynthesis, primary metabolism, respiration
knoguchi@toyaku.ac.jp Research webpage
Michael
Bitterlich
Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, Australia
Areas of expertise: arbuscular mycorrhiza, drought tolerance, isotope tracing, plant gas exchange measurements and models, plant nutrition, plant-soil interactions, root uptake models, soil texture and hydraulics
m.bitterlich@uq.edu.au Research webpage
Yuling
Jiao
School of life science, Peking University, China
Areas of expertise: axillary meristem, leaf, morphogenesis, patterning, regeneration
yuling.jiao@pku.edu.cn Research webpage
Nathaniel
Street
Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå University, Sweden
Areas of expertise: genomics; natural variation; metatranscriptomics; genome assembly; co-expression networks
nathaniel.street@umu.se Research webpage
Thorsten
Hamann
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Areas of expertise: cell wall, cell wall mechanics, cell wall metabolism, cell wall signaling, mechanical properties, mechano-perception, plant cell mechanics, stress and strain
thorsten.hamann@ntnu.no Research webpage
Bingru
Huang
Department of Plant Biology Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, USA
Areas of expertise: carbon/hormone/antioxidant/protein metabolisms, functional genomics, stress physiology, water relations
huang@sebs.rutgers.edu Research webpage
Cao
Xu
Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, CAS-JIC Centre of Excellence for Plant and Microbial Science (CEPAMS), China
Areas of expertise: crop genetics, de novo domestication, genome editing and crop design, plant development and stress resilience
caoxu@genetics.ac.cn Research webpage
Qingyu
Wu
Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
Areas of expertise: inflorescence development, maize genetics, plant nutrients, yield improvement
wuqingyu@caas.cn Research webpage
Onno
Muller
Institut für Bio- und Geowissenschaften (IBG), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
Areas of expertise: non-invasive field phenotyping, shoot dynamics
o.muller@fz-juelich.de Research webpageHandling Editors
Isaac Kwesi
Abuley
Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Denmark
Areas of expertise: alternaria spp., biological control, disease Epidemiology & modeling, fungi, fungicide resistance, host resistance, integrated pest management, molecular and morphological diagnostics of plant pathogens, oomycetes, phytophthora infestans
ikabuley@agro.au.dk Research webpage
Rehna
Augustine
Centre for Plant Biotechnology and Molecular Biology Kerala Agricultural University, India
Areas of expertise: abiotic stress tolerance, Brassica juncea, genome editing, glucosinolates, metabolic engineering, Oryza sativa
rehna.augustine@kau.in Research webpage
Jean-Christophe
Avice
Ecophysiologie Végétale et Agronomie, University of Caen Normandie, France
Areas of expertise: N & S Use Efficiency, nutrients remobilization
jean-christophe.avice@unicaen.fr Research webpage
Catherine
Bellini
Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå University, Sweden
Areas of expertise: auxin, phytohormone, root
catherine.bellini@umu.se Research webpage
Gerd Patrick
Bienert
Technical University of Munich TUM School of Life Sciences Freising, Germany
Areas of expertise: aquaporin, arsenic, boron, heterologous expression, hydrogen peroxide, ICP-MS, metalloids, nutrient deficiency, nutrient efficiency, phenotyping, physiology, plant nutrition, root architecture, silicon, transport, uptake, water
patrick.bienert@tum.de Research webpage
Julia
Buitink
INRAE – IRHS (Institut de Recherche en Horticulture et Semences) France
Areas of expertise: desiccation tolerance, dormancy, germination, longevity, seed
julia.buitink@inrae.fr Research webpage
Florian A.
Bush
School of Biosciences University of Birmingham, UK
Areas of expertise: abiotic stress, photosynthetic electron flow, reactive oxygen species, regulation of photosynthesis
f.a.busch@bham.ac.uk Research webpage
Pablo I.
Calzadilla
Université Paris-Saclay, France
Areas of expertise: chlorophyll fluorescence, electron transport, gas exchange, photosynthesis
pablo.calzadilla@i2bc.paris-saclay.fr Research webpage
Petronia
Carillo
Dept. of Environmental, Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Italy
Areas of expertise: and biostimulants, crop physiology, metabolic profiling, N metabolism, osmolytes, salt stress
petronia.carillo@unicampania.it Research webpage
Jianghua
Chen
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) Chinese Academy of Science Kunming,China
Areas of expertise: compound leaf, gene regulation, leaf movement, legume, plant development
jhchen@xtbg.ac.cn Research webpage
Wah Soon
Chow
Research School of Biology The Australian National University Canberra, Australia
Areas of expertise: electron transport, light acclimation, thylakoid stacking
fred.chow@anu.edu.au Research webpage
Marco
Cosme
Ecology and Dynamics of Human-influenced Systems, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, France
Areas of expertise: Above-belowground interactions, adaptive strategies, functional ecology, greenhouse gas exchange, microbial ecology, mycorrhizal associations, plant and microbial molecular biology, plant drought stress, soil biogeochemical processes, trait evolution
marco.cosme@u-picardie.fr Research webpage
Sophie
de Vries
Institute of Microbiology and Genetics University of Goettingen, Germany
Areas of expertise: comparative and functional genomics, evolutionary analyses, EvoMPMI, plant-microbe interaction
sophie.devries@uni-goettingen.de Research webpage
Karl-Josef
Dietz
Plant Biochemistry and Physiology University of Bielefeld Bielefeld, Germany
Areas of expertise: abiotic stresses, Area of expertise: photosynthesis, cell signalling, redox regulation
karl-josef.dietz@uni-bielefeld.de Research webpage
Christian
Dubos
Institute for Plant Sciences of Montpellier (IPSiM) Montpellier, France
Areas of expertise: iron homeostasis, nutrition, secondary metabolism, transcriptional regulation
christian.dubos@inrae.fr Research webpage
Alisdair
Fernie
Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular, Plant Physiology Potsdam, Germany
Areas of expertise: GWAS, metabolic regulation, metabolomics, primary metabolism, QTL anaylsis, source sink interactions, TCA cycle
fernie@mpimp-golm.mpg.de Research webpage
Antonio
Ferrante
Institute of Crop Science, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa, Italy
Areas of expertise: abiotic stress, Biostimulants, plant hormones, plant senescence, protected cultivations
antonio.ferrante@santannapisa.it Research webpage
Jaume
Flexas
Department of biology Universitat de les Illes Balears Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Areas of expertise: aquaporins, gas exchange, leaf anatomical properties, photosynthesis, plant ecophysiology, primary metabolism regulation/limitation, remote sensing, sap flow, water stress
jaume.flexas@uib.es Research webpage
Christine
Foyer
School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham Birmingham, United Kingdom
Areas of expertise: CO2 enrichment, photosynthesis, redox biology and signalling, respiration and respiratory complex I
C.H.Foyer@bham.ac.uk Research webpage
Per
Gardeström
Umeå University, Sweden
Areas of expertise: cell fractionation, plant mitochondria, respiration
per.gardestrom@umu.se Research webpage
Venugopala R.
Gonehal
Department of Botany and plant sciences, University of California Riverside USA
Areas of expertise: CLAVATA3, live imaging, shoot apex, stem cells, stochastic and deterministic models, sub-cellular element models of cell and tissue growth, WUSCHEL
venug@ucr.edu Research webpage
Thomas
Greb
Centre for Organismal Studies (COS), Heidelberg University, Germany
Areas of expertise: cell fate determination, gene regulation, hormonal signaling, vascular development
thomas.greb@cos.uni-heidelberg.de Research webpage
Aditi
Gupta
Molecular Biology & Biotechnology Division, CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI) Lucknow, India
Areas of expertise: brassinosteroids, cell signaling, plant growth and adaptation, root Development, thermomorphogenesis
aditi.gupta.nbri@csir.res.in Research webpage
Marc
Hanikenne
University of Liège, Belgium
Areas of expertise: abiotic stress, adaptation, cell imaging, metal deficiency, metal homeostasis, metal tolerance, nutrition, physiology, transcriptomics
marc.hanikenne@uliege.be Research webpage
Tzu-Pi
Huang
Academy of Circular Economy, National Chung Hsing University Nantou, Taiwan
Areas of expertise: Bacillus, biocontrol, biofilm, biopesticide, biostimulant, bofertilizer, pesticides, plant pathology, quorum sensing, Streptomyces
tphuang@nchu.edu.tw Research webpage
Vaughan
Hurry
Umeå Plant Science Centre (UPSC) Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Umeå, Sweden
Areas of expertise: abiotic stress, carbon metabolism, cold tolerance, photosynthesis, sucrose transport
vaughan.hurry@slu.se Research webpage
Tofazzal
Islam
Institute of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (IBGE), Agricultural University, Bangladesh
Areas of expertise: CRISPR technology, ecological chemistry, genome editing, genomics, molecular plant-oomycete interactions, plant probiotics, secondary metabolites
tofazzalislam@bsmrau.edu.bd Research webpage
Jian
Jin
La Trobe Institute for Sustainable Agriculture and Food, Melbourne, Australia
Areas of expertise: crop production; soil microbial community, nitrogen and soil organic carbon, phosphorus, rhizobium
j.jin@latrobe.edu.au Research webpage
Rozenn
Le Hir
Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin (IJPB), INRAE Versailles, France
Areas of expertise: abiotic stresses, development, infrared spectroscopy, phloem, sugar allocation, sugar transport, xylem
rozenn.le-hir@inrae.fr Research webpage
Sheng-Hong
Li
State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Plant Resources, West China Kunming Institute of Botany, China
Areas of expertise: biological activities, biosynthesis and synthetic biology, ecological functions, plant glandular trichomes, plant secondary metabolites, terpenoid diversity
shli@mail.kib.ac.cn Research webpage
Zhonghai
Li
Beijing Forestry University, China
Areas of expertise: alternative splicing, database, DNA repair, leaf senescence, peptide hormone
lizhonghai@bjfu.edu.cn Research webpage
Huu-Sheng
Lur
Department of Agronomy National, Taiwan University
Areas of expertise: climate change and crop production, crop physiology
lurhs@ntu.edu.tw Research webpage
Jian-Feng
Mao
Umeå Plant Science Center, Sweden
Areas of expertise: ecological genomics, genome assembly, genome evolution, transposable elements
jianfeng.mao@umu.se Research webpage
Stefan
Martens
Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all’Adige, Italy
Areas of expertise: biological activities, biosynthesis, flavonoids, gene discovery, heterologous expression systems, metabolomics, plant secondary metabolites, polyphenols, synthetic biology, transcriptomics
stefan.martens@fmach.it Research webpage
Ricky
Milne
CSIRO Agriculture and Food Canberra, Australia
Areas of expertise: electrophysiology, multipathogen resistance, nutrient transport, plant-fungal interactions, rust diseases, sugar transporter biology
ricky.milne@csiro.au Research webpage
Ian Max
Møller
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics Science and Technology, Aarhus University, Denmark
Areas of expertise: mitochondria, oxidative stress, protein oxidation, proteomics, respiration, seed physiology
ian.max.moller@mbg.au.dk Research webpage
Marek Albert
Mutwil
Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Copenhagen, Denmark
Areas of expertise: algorithm, databases, gene function prediction, specialized metabolism, stress resilience
mutwil@gmail.com Research webpage
Benjamin
Neuhäuser
University of Hohenheim Institute of Crop Science Stuttgart, Germany
Areas of expertise: assimilation, electrophysiology, ion transport, molecular biology, nitrogen, plant nutrition, plant physiology, transport physiology, uptake
benjamin.neuhaeuser@uni-hohenheim.de Research webpage
Michela
Osnato
Plant Physiology and Molecular Farming Lab, Università degli Studi di Urbino “Carlo Bo”, Italy
Areas of expertise: developmental Genetics, leaf and flower development, physiological response to abiotic stresses, regulation of gene expression & functional genomics
michela.osnato@uniurb.it Research webpage
Pirita
Paajanen
University of Helsinki Finland
Areas of expertise: bioinformatics, circadian biology, genomics, RNASeq
Pirita.paajanen@helsinki.fi Research webpage
Majken
Pagter
Department of Chemistry and Bioscience Aalborg University, Denmark
Areas of expertise: cold acclimation, deacclimation, freezing tolerance, metabolic and molecular responses to temperature changes, phenology, physiological
mp@bio.aau.dk Research webpage
Francine
Perrine-Walker
Centre of Carbon, Water and Food The University of Sydney, Australia
Areas of expertise: microscopy, nodulation, plant fungal pathogens, plant hormones, plant parasitic nematodes, plant-microbe interactions, rhizobia, root Development
marie.perrine-walker@sydney.edu.au Research webpage
Edouard
Pesquet
Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences Stockholm University, Sweden
Areas of expertise: cytoskeleton, plant cell culture, primary and secondary cell wall, programmed cell death, xylem
edouard.pesquet@su.se Research webpage
Krista
Plett
Plant Biosecurity Research and Diagnostics, Menangle, Australia
Areas of expertise: ectomycorrhizal fungi, gene function, metabolomics, nutrient acquisition, plant-fungal interactions, signalling, transcriptomics
Krista.plett@dpi.nsw.gov.au Research webpage
Balakrishnan
Prithiviraj
Department of Plant, Food, and Environmental Sciences Faculty of Agriculture, Dalhousie University, Canada
Areas of expertise: marine bioproducts, plant biostimulants
bprithiviraj@dal.ca Research webpage
Yuan
Qin
Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, China
Areas of expertise: female gametophyte development, male-female interaction, ovule development, plant reproduction, pollen tube, single-cell RNA-seq, transcriptome
yuanqin001@foxmail.com Research webpage
Rosa M.
Rivero
CEBAS-CSIC, Department of Plant Nutrition Universitario de Espinardo Murcia, Spain
Areas of expertise: abiotic stress combination, oxidative stress, plant biochemistry, plant molecular pathways and signalling, plant physiology
rmrivero@cebas.csic.es Research webpage
Sarah
Robinson
Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge University, UK
Areas of expertise: cell division, Plant biomechanics, plant development
sarah.robinson@slcu.cam.ac.uk Research webpage
Hatem
Rouached
The Plant Resilience Institute Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences Michigan State University, USA
Areas of expertise: and transport; ion homeostasis and its interactions; phosphorus dynamics, ion sensing, signaling
rouached@msu.edu Research webpage
Anne-Lise
Routier-Kierzkowska
Université de Montreal, Canada
Areas of expertise: 3D Live Imaging, biophysics, developmental biology, image analysis, mechanical modeling, mechanosensing, morphogenesis, plant growth
al.routier@umontreal.ca Research webpage
Jarkko
Salojärvi
School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Areas of expertise: computational modelling, evolution, molecular ecology, population genomics
jarkko@ntu.edu.sg Research webpage
Prafull
salvi
BRIC- National Agri-Food and Biomanufacturing Institute Mohali, India
Areas of expertise: drought and heat stress, genetic engineering, seed vigor and longevity, transcriptional regulation
prafull.salvi@nabi.res.in Research webpage
Eirini
Sarrou
Hellenic Agricultural Organisation DIMITRA, Thessaloniki, Greece
Areas of expertise: biosynthesis, phenotyping, polyphenols, secondary metabolites, stress, terpenes
esarrou@elgo.gr Research webpage
Haruhiko
Taneda
Nikko botanical garden The University of Tokyo, Japan
Areas of expertise: boreal conifer, hydraulic architecture, plant water use, xylem anatomy, xylem embolism
taneda@bs.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp Research webpage
José M.
Torres-Ruiz
Inst. de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiologia (IRNAS), CSIC Seville, Spain
Areas of expertise: drought-induced mortality, Plant hydraulics, plant resistance to drought, tree mortality, xylem embolism
jmtorresruiz@irnas.csic.es Research webpage
Xiaoyu
Tu
School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Areas of expertise: C4 photosynthesis, crop photosynthesis enhancement, functional genomics, synthetic regulatory strategies
xiaoyutu@sjtu.edu.cn Research webpage
Aalt Dirk Jan
van Dijk
Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Areas of expertise: algorithms, gene function prediction, machine learning, protein structure
a.d.j.vandijk@uva.nl Research webpage
Ramesh R.
Vetukuri
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden
Areas of expertise: biocontrol, microbiomes, omics, plant-pathogen interactions, small RNAs
ramesh.vetukuri@slu.se Research webpage
Jingjin
Yu
College of Agro-Grassland Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, China
Areas of expertise: abiotic stress tolerance, carbon dioxide enrichment, gene regulation, metabolomics
jingjin_yu@126.com Research webpage
Ning
Zhang
State Key Laboratory of Wheat Improvement, Shandong Agricultural University, China
Areas of expertise: and FAN, ATAC-Seq, ChIP, crop plant and root architecture, CUT&RUN, FACS, gravitropism, RNA-Seq, stem cell and epigenetics
nzhang@sdau.edu.cn