We welcome manuscripts improving our mechanistic understanding of primary and secondary plant metabolism.
We are welcoming manuscripts improving our mechanistic understanding of plant abiotic stress signalling and tolerance at the molecular and biochemistry levels.
Studies exploring the adaptation/role of primary and secondary metabolism in response to key climate-driven factors impacting plant growth and productivity (drought, temperature stress, rising soil salinity, eCO2 etc) will also be considered.
Furthermore, studies addressing the role of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in plant signalling, metabolism and acclimation, as well as studies exploring systemic signalling in responses to abiotic and biotic stresses, are also appreciated.
Subject Editor
Ron Mittler
Department of Biological Sciences
College of Arts and Sciences
University of North Texas
Denton, USA
ron.mittler@unt.edu
Area of expertise: oxidative stress, multiple abiotic stress, molecular ecology of desert plant
Associate 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
Harry Brumer
Michael Smith Laboratories & Department of Chemistry
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, Canada
brumer@msl.ubc.ca
Area of expertise: enzymology, carbohydrates
Hyung-Taeg Cho
School of Biological Sciences
Seoul National University
Seoul, Republic of Korea
htcho@snu.ac.kr
Area of expertise: cell differentiation and growth, auxin transport and physiology, root hair, cis-element analysis
Karl-Josef Dietz
Plant Biochemistry and Physiology
University of Bielefeld
Bielefeld, Germany
e-mail: karl-josef.dietz@uni-bielefeld.de
Area of expertise: photosynthesis, abiotic stresses, cell signalling, redox regulation
Christine H. Foyer
Centre for Plant Sciences
Faculty of Biological Sciences
University of Leeds
Leeds, United Kingdom
e-mail: c.foyer@leeds.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
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
Bingru Huang
Department of Plant Biology
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
New Brunswick, USA
e-mail: huang@sebs.rutgers.edu
Area of expertise: stress physiology (heat, drought, salt), functional genomics, water relations, carbon/hormone/antioxidant/protein metabolisms
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
Sheng-Hong Li
State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Plant Resources in West China
Kunming Institute of Botany
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
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
Ian Max Møller
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics
Science and Technology
Aarhus University
Slagelse, Denmark
ian.max.moller@mbg.au.dk
Area of expertise: mitochondria, respiration, proteomics, oxidative stress, seed physiology, protein oxidation
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
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 
Dominique Van Der Straeten
Laboratory of Functional Plant Biology
Ghent University
Ghent, Belgium
dominique.vanderstraeten@ugent.be
Area of expertise: plant hormones and interactions with light signaling and abiotic stress, imaging, biofortification
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