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Frantisek Baluska
Inst. of Cellular
and Molecular Botany
University of Bonn
Kirschallee 1
D-53115 Bonn, Germany
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Stefano Mancuso
University of Florence
Dept. of Horticulture and Plant Production
Viale delle Idee 30
I-50019 Florence, Italy
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Tony Trewavas
FRS, FRSE,
Academia Europea
Institute of Cell
and Molecular Biology
University of Edinburgh
King's Buildings, Mayfield Rd
Edinburgh EH9 3JH, UK
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Dieter Volkmann
Inst. of Cellular
and Molecular Botany
University of Bonn
Kirschallee 1
D-53115 Bonn, Germany
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associate editors & editorial units

Zoya Avramova

Areas of Expertise: molecular biology, epigenetic regulation, chromatin structure

University of Lincoln, Nebraska
302 Manter Hall
School of Biological Sciences
Lincoln NE 68588 USA
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website

 
   

Olga Babourina

Areas of Expertise: ion transport, signal perception and transduction, abiotic stress tolerance

Research Associate
School of Earth and Geographical Sciences
University of Western Australia
35 Stirling Hwy
Crawley, WA 6009 Australia
email
website

Alexander Grabov

Areas of Expertise:

email

Helen Irving

Areas of Expertise:

email

Takayuki Sasaki

Areas of Expertise: plant molecular biology, ion transport, abiotic stress response

Research Institute for Bioresources,
Okayama University
2-20-1 Chuo, Kurashiki
710-0046 Japan

email

Carlos L. Ballare

Areas of Expertise:

Faculty of Agronomy
University of Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, Argentina
email

website

 

Juan Barcelo

Areas of Expertise: aluminum and heavy metal stress, mineral nutrition, root physiology

Lab. Fisiologia Vegetal
Facultad Ciencias
Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona
E-08193-Bellaterra, Spain

email

 

Peter Barlow

Areas of Expertise: cell biology

Senior Research Fellow
University of Bristol
School of Biological Sciences
Bristol BS8 1UG, UK
email

 

Dirk Becker

Areas of Expertise:

Julius-von-Sachs-Institute for Biosciences
University of Wurzburg
Wurzburg, Germany
email

website

 

 

Gerald Berkowitz

Areas of Expertise: Calcium signaling, Ion channels, Signal perception and transduction

Department of Plant Science
University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut
email
website

 

Thomas Berleth

Areas of Expertise:

Department of Botany
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
email
website

 

Elison Blancaflor

Areas of Expertise: plant gravity response, root development, cell imaging, cytoskeleton

Principal Investigator
The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation
Plant Biology Division
2510 Sam Noble Parkway
Ardmore, Oklahoma 73410 USA
email
website

Wayne Versaw

Areas of Expertise: membrane transporters, mineral nutrition

Assistant Professor
Texas A&M University
Dept. of Biology
3258 TAMU
Biological Sciences Bldg. East, Room 202A
College Station, TX 77843-3258 USA
email
website

Kent Chapman

Areas of Expertise: lipids, phospholipid metabolism, membrane

Professor
University of North Texas
Center for Plant Lipid Research
P.O. Box 305220
Denton, Texas 76203 USA
email
website

Wilhelm Boland

Areas of Expertise: bioorganic chemistry, biochemistry, analytical chemistry

Director
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
Hans-Knoell-Str. 8
D-07745 Jena, Germany
email
website

 

Paola Bonfante

Areas of Expertise:

Dipartimento di Biologia Vegetale dell'Universita
Instituto per la Protezione delle Piante-CNR
Sezione di Torino
Viale Mattioli 25
I-10125 Torino, Italy
email

website

Guillaume Becard

Areas of Expertise:

UMR 5546 CNRS/Universite Paul Sabatier
21, chemin de Brde-Rouge
BP42617, Auzeville
31326, Castanet-Tolosan, France
website

Simone Ottonello

Areas of Expertise:

Universita di Parma
Dipartimento do Biochimica e Biologia Molecolare
Parco Area delle Scienze 23/A
I-43100, Parma, Italy
email

website

Janet Braam

Areas of Expertise: calcium signaling, cell walls, touch, mechanoresponses

Professor, Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Rice University
6100 Main St.
Houston, TX 77005-1892 USA
email
website

A.S.N. Reddy

Areas of Expertise: calcium signaling, calcium sensors, target proteins, pre-mRNA splicing

Department of Biology
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, Colorado 80523 USA
email

Gladys Cassab

Areas of Expertise: plant physiology, biochemistry of plant cell walls, root cap development, tropisms, hydrotropism

Department of Plant Molecular Biology
Institute of Biotechnology, UNAM.
apdo. postal 510-3
Col. Chamilpa
Cuernavaca, Mor. 62250 Mexico
email

Eric D. Brenner

Areas of Expertise: plant physiology, biochemistry, genetics, genomics, medicinal products

Assistant Curator
New York Botanical Garden, Plant Genomics
200th St. and Kazimiroff Blvd.
Bronx, New York 10458 USA
email
website

Daniel A. Chamovitz

Areas of Expertise: photomorphogenesis, translational central, protein complexes and networks

Professor
Tel Aviv University
Department of Plant Sciences
Tel Aviv 69978
email

Lee Meisel

Areas of Expertise: Plant Cell Biology, Molecular Genetics, Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics

Associate Professor
Center of Plant Biotechnology
Andres Bello University
Republica 217
837-0146 Santiago, Chile
email

Rujin Chen

Areas of Expertise: auxin transport, gravitropism, root development, legume development and symbiosis, genetic resources

Staff Scientist
Plant Biology Division
Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation
2510 Sam Noble Parkway
Ardmore, Oklahoma 73401 USA
email
website

Ming Yang

Areas of Expertise: cell cycle, cell morphogenesis, recombination

Assistant Professor
Oklahoma State University
104 Life Sciences East
Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078 USA
email

Jia Li

Areas of Expertise: receptor-like kinases, brassinosteroid signal transduction, plant growth and development

Assistant Professor
Department of Botany and Microbiology
770 Van Vleet Oval
University of Oklahoma
Norman, Oklahoma 73019 USA
email

Rebecca Dickstein

Areas of Expertise: nitrogen fixation, Medicago, lotus, infection thread, symbiosome, nodule-specific genes, root hair

Associate Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
University of North Texas
P.O.Box 305220
Denton, Texas 76203
email

Alice Cheung

Areas of Expertise: tip growth cell biology, small GTpases, cytoskeleton, vesicle trafficking

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of Massachusetts
Lederle Graduate Reasearch Tower
Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
email
website

 

Vitaly Citovsky

Areas of Expertise: agrobacterium-plant cell interaction, virus-plant cell interaction, cell-to-cell transport,
nuclear import, targeted proteolysis, gene repression complexes

State University of New York
Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Stony Brook, New York 11794-5215 USA
email
website

Gail McLean

Areas of Expertise: plant cytoskeleton, cell-cell transport, plant-virus interactions, agrobacterium

National Program Leader
USDA-CSREES
1400 Independence Avenue SW, Mail stop 2241
Washington, DC 20250-2241
email

Tsvi Tzfira

Areas of Expertise:plant pathogen interactions, plant biotechnology

Visiting Professor
The University of Michigan
Department of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology
4071D Nat. Sci.
830 N. University Ave.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1048
email

Alexander Vainstein

Areas of Expertise: floral scent

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Faculty of Agriculture
Rehovot 76100, Israel
email
website

Eric Davies

Areas of Expertise: electrical signals, wound responses, gravity responses, gene expression, cytoskeleton

Department of Botany
North Carolina State University
2214 Gardner Hall
Raleigh, North Carolina 27645 USA
email
website

Imara Perera

Areas of Expertise: IP3, gravity, SiRNA

Department of Botany,
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-7612

email

Bratislav Stankovic

Areas of Expertise: electrical signals, gravity, space flight, biotechnology patents

Brinks, Hofer, Gilson & Lione
455 North Cityfront Plaza Drive
NBC Tower-Suite 3600
Chicago, Illinois 60611
email

Seth Jon Davis

Department of Plant Developmental Biology
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
Carl-von-Linne-Weg 10
Cologne 50829
Germany
Email
website

Girdhar K. Pandey

Areas of Expertise: ABA and Calcium Signaling, Abiotic stress and signaling, CBL- CIPK, Nutrient deficiency and signaling,
Phosphatases and phospholipases mediated signaling
Dept. of Plant Molecular Biology

Associate Professor
University of Delhi South Campus
Benito Juarez Road, Dhaula Kuan
New Delhi 110021
Email

Yun Zhou
University of Minnesota
250 Biological Sciences Center
1445 Gortner Ave
St. Paul, MN 55108 USA
Email

Harriet McWatters
Department of Plant Sciences
University of Oxford
South Parks Road
Oxford, OX1 3RB, UK
Email

Anthony J. Hall
School of Biological Sciences
Biosciences Building
Crown Street
University of Liverpool
Liverpool L69 7ZB, UK
Email

Bert de Boer

Areas of Expertise: 14-3-3 Biology, ion transporters, aba xylem physiology

Associate Professor
Institute for Molecular Cell Biology, FALW
Vrije University
de Boelelaan 1085
1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
email
website

 
 

Vadim Demidchik

Areas of Expertise: Receptors, ion channels, stress, reactive oxygen species, calcium

Department of Plant Sciences
University of Cambridge
Downing Streer
Cambridge, CB23EA UK
email

 
Sergei G. Sokolovski
Areas of Expertise: calcium signaling, ion channels regulation
Laboratory of Biophysics & Plant Physiology
IBLS, University of Glasgow
Bower Building, Stevenson Annex
G12 8QQ, Glasgow UK
email
Vadim Volkov
Areas of Expertise: electrophysiology, water transport
Plant Sciences Group
IBLS, University of Glasgow
Bower Building, Stevenson Annex
G12 8QQ, Glasgow, UK
email
Anatoly Sokolik
Areas of Expertise:
Laboratory of Plant Cell Physiology
Biological Faculty
Belarusian State University
4 Skaryna Avenue, 220050
Minsk, Belarus
email
 
Vladimir Yurin
Areas of Expertise:
Department of Physiology and
Biochemistry of Plants
Biological Faculty
Belarusian State University
4 Skaryna Avenue, 220050
Minsk, Belarus
email

Marcel Dicke

Areas of Expertise: insect-plant interactions

Professor of Entomology
Wageningen University
Laboratory of Entomology
PO Box 8031
Wageningen, The Netherlands
email
website

 

Harro Bouwmeester

Areas of Expertise: Regulation of terpene biosynthesis and insect-induced volatile formation

Senior Scientist
Plant Research International,
P.O. Box 16
6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands

email

Corne M.J. Pieterse

Areas of Expertise: molecular plant-microbe interactions

Department of Biology, Section Phytopathology
Utrecht University
Sorbonnelaan 16, 3584 CA
Utrecht, The Netherlands

email

Nicole M. van Dam

Areas of Expertise: chemical ecology of plant-herbivore interactions

Senior Scientist
Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-UNAN)
PO Box 40
6666 26 Heteren, The Netherlands
email

Biao Ding

Areas of Expertise: plasmodesmata, phloem, protein/RNA trafficking. viral/viroid movement

Plant Biotechnology Center
Ohio State University
207 Rightmire Hall
1060 Carmack Road
Columbus, Ohio 43210 USA
email
website

David Jackson

Areas of Expertise: plasmodesmata, shoot apical meristem, phyllotaxy, cytokinins

Associate Professor
Cold Spring Harbor Lab
1 Bungtown Road
Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724 USA
email

Yong-Ling Ruan

Areas of Expertise: plasmodesmata, cell-to-cell communication, sugar transport and metabolism

Dr. Assoc Professor, Plant Cell Development
Director, Australia-China Research Centre for Crop Improvement
School of Environmental and Life Sciences
The University of Newcastle
University Drive,
Callaghan NSW 2308 Australia
email

Gian Pietro Di Sansebastiano

Areas of Expertise: molecules and organelles

Permanent Researcher
Laboratory of Botany
Disteba, University of Lecce
Campus Ecoterne, Prov. Lecce-Monteroni
73100 Lecce, Italy
email
website

Federica Brandizzi

Areas of Expertise: secretory pathway, fluorescent proteins, golgi apparatus, endoplasmic reticulum

Associate Professor
University of Saskatchewan
Biology Department
112 Science Place
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, S7N 5E2 Canada
email
website

Barbara Koehler

Areas of Expertise: functional genomics of membrane transporters, xylem loading

Research Associate
Universityo f Potsdam
Institute for Biochemistry and Biology
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24/25, H20
14476 Golm, Germany
email

Nadine Paris

Areas of Expertise: biogenesis of plant vacuole, microscopy, GFP

UMR-CNRS 6037
IFRMP23
UniversitŽ de Rouen
B‰timent Extension Biologie
76821 Mont Saint Aignan, France
email
website

Azeddine Driouich

Areas of Expertise: cell wall, glycoprotein, microscopy, morphogenesis, polysaccharide

UMR CNRS 6037. IFRMP23.
CCME. Université de Rouen
76821 Mont Saint Aignan
France
email

 

S. Coimbra

Areas of Expertise:

University of Porto
Portugal
email

Jill Farrant

Areas of Expertise:

University of Capetown
RSA
email

Jurgen Engelberth

Areas of Expertise: plant-plant communication, octadecanoid signaling

University of Texas at San Antonio
Dept. of Biology
One UTSA Circle
San Antonio, Texas 78249 USA
email

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Maria Filek

Areas of Expertise: cell biology, flowering, phytohormones, signal transduction

Department of Plant Physiology
Institute of Plant Sciences
Polish Academy of Sciences
Krakow, Poland
email

Marta Libik

Areas of Expertise:

email

Zbigniew Misalski

Areas of Expertise:

email

Noni (V.E.) Franklin-Tong

Areas of Expertise: pollination and self-incompability, signaling to actin cytoskeleton, programmed cell death, Ca2+ signaling

Professor, University of Birmingham
School of Biosciences
Edgbaston B15 2TT UK
email

Rui Malho

Areas of Expertise: calcium imaging and signaling,
pollen tube growth regulation

Dept. de Biologia Vegetal, FCL, Bloco Cl
Campo Grande, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal
email
website

Wei Ma

Areas of Expertise: Calcium and nitric oxide signaling,
Signal perception and transduction

Research Associate, MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824
email

Jiri Friml

Areas of Expertise:

Department of Developmental Genetics
University of Tuebingen
Tuebingen, Germany
email
website

Jan Hejatko

Areas of Expertise: plant hormone signalling, regulation of plant development

Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Institute of Biophysics
Kralovopolska 135, 612 65, Brno
Czech Republic

Masaryk University
Dept. of Functional Genomics and Proteomics
Kotlarska 2, CZ-611 37, Brno
email

website

Michael Sauer

Areas of Expertise: auxin, plant development, cell polarity

ZMBP, University of Tubingen
auf der Morgenstelle 3
72076 Tubingen, Germany

email

Jan Petrasek

Areas of Expertise: cytoskeleton, planthormones, in vivo microscopy

Institutc of Experimental Botany ASCR
Rozvojova 135, 165 02 Praha 6

email

Hillel Fromm

Areas of Expertise: Calmodulin, GABA, transcriptional regulation, response to stress

Department of Plant Sciences
Tel Aviv University
69978 Tel Aviv, Israel
email
website

Tzahi Arazi

Areas of Expertise: small RNAs, micro-RNAs, silencing,
plant virus-vectors

Department of Ornamental Horticulture
Volcani Center ARO
PO Box 6
Bet-Dagan 50250, Israel
email

Nicolas Bouche

Areas of Expertise: GABA in plants

Post-doc
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)
IJPB - Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire
Route de Sasint Cyr
78026 Versailles cedex, France
email

Jorg Fromm

Areas of Expertise: electrical signalling via the phloem

Professor for Wood Biology
Technical University of Munich
Winzerstrasse 45
80797 Munich, Germany
email
website

Thorsten Grams

Areas of Expertise: ecophysiology, competition, photosynthesis

Ecophysiology of Plants
Technische Universität München
am Hochanger 13
D-85354 Freising, Germany
email

Christoph Plieth

Areas of Expertise: signal perception and transduction, action potentials, plant and abiotic environment

Lecturer and Research Fellow
Zentrum fur Biochemie und Molekularbiologie
Christian-Albrechts-Universitat
Am-Botanischen-Garten 9
D-24098 Kiel, Germany
email

Toru Fujiwara

Areas of Expertise: plant nutrition, transport and stress response

Associate Professor
Biotechnology Research Center
Unviversity of Tokyo
Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku
Tokyo 113-8657, Japan
email
website

 

Dorus Gadella

Areas of Expertise: signal transduction, advanced fluorescence microscopy

Full Professor and Chariman, Section of Molecular Cytology
Director, Centre for Advanced Microscopy
Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences
University of Amsterdam
Kruislaan 316
1098 Amsterdam, The Netherlands
email
website

 

Angharad M.R. Gatehouse

Areas of Expertise:

Professor of Invertebrate Molecular Biology
School of Biology
Institute for Research on Environment and Sustainability Devonshire Building
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
email
website

 

Markus Geisler

Areas of Expertise: membrane transport, auxin, root development, protein-protein interaction, calcium signalling

Group Leader
Institute of Plant Physiology
University of Zurich
Zolliker Strasse 108
CH-8008 Zurich, Switzerland
email
website

Susana Coelho

Areas of Expertise: intracellular signalling

Station Biologique de Roscoff
Algal Genetics
Place Georges Teissier
Roscoff, France 29680
email

Katsuhiro Shiratake

Areas of Expertise: sugar transport, sugar sensing, phytohormones, fruit development, sink strength

Associate Professor
Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences
Laboratory of Horicultural Science
Nagoya University
Chikusa, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
email

website

Matthew Gilliham

Areas of Expertise: electrophysiology, ion transport, root physiology, salt stress, calcium signaling

Research Associate
University of Cambridge
Department of Plant Sciences
Downing Street
Cambridge, UK CB2 3EA
email
website

John Bothwell

Areas of Expertise: microscopy, fluorescence imaging, development, calcium signalling, algae, ion transport, organelle signalling

MBA
The Laboratory
Citadel Hill
Plymouth, PL1 2PB, UK
email
website

Anthony N. Dodd

Areas of Expertise: circadian biology and whole plant physiology, calcium signaling, carbohydrate metabolism, guard cells, IRGA, imaging technologies, esp. CA2+-based

Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Dept. of Plant Sciences
Univeresity of Cambridge
Downing Street
Cambridge CB2 3EA, UK
email
website

Tony Miller

Areas of Expertise: plant nutrition and homeostasis, plant electrical signals, cell nitrogen biology, plant membrane transporters

Crop Performance and Improvement
Rothamsted Research
Harpenden
Herts UK AL5 2JQ
email
website

Manuela Giovannetti

Areas of Expertise: plant-microbe interactions

Full Professor
Dept of Chem and Agricultural Biotech
University of Pisa
Via del Borghetto 80
56124 Pisa, Italy
email
website

Luciano Avio

Areas of Expertise: plant-microbe interactions

Researcher
Istituto Biologia e Biotechnologia Agraria CNR
Via del Borghetto 80
56124 Pisa, Italy
email

Nello Ceccarelli

Areas of Expertise:

email

Christiana Sbrana

Areas of Expertise: plant-microbe interactions

Researcher
Istituto Biologia e Biotechnologia Agraria CNR
Via del Borghetto 80
56124 Pisa, Italy
email

Gerd Hause

Areas of Expertise: cell biology, plant cell ultrastructure, reproduction in plants

Microscopy Unit
Biocenter of the Martin Luther University Halle
Weinbergweg 22
D-06120 Halle/Saale
Germany
email
website

Bettina Hause

Areas of Expertise: cell biology, plant hormones, mycorrhiza, cytoskeleton

Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
Biocenter
Weinbergweg 22
D-06120 Halle/Saale
Germany
email
webite

Pavla Binarova

Areas of Expertise:

Institute of Microbiology
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Videnska 1083, 142 20 4, Prague
Czech Republic
email

Zheng-Hui He

Areas of Expertise: receptor-like kinase, signalling, wall-associated kinase, gene expression

Department of Biology
San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94132 USA
email
website

 

Manfred Heinlein

Areas of Expertise:

Institut Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes
CNRS, UPR 2357
12, rue du Général Zimmer
F-67084 Strasbourg Cedex, France
email
website

 

Petra Boevink

Areas of Expertise: virus movement, plasmodesmata

Cell to Cell Communication
Scottish Crop Research Institute
Invergowrie Dundee DD2-5DA
email

website

Christophe Ritzenthaler

Areas of Expertise: secretory pathway, virus replication and movement, GFLV, TMV

Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes
12, rue du Général Zimmer
F-67084 Strasbourg Cedex, France
email

Elisabeth Waigmann

Areas of Expertise: RNA chaperones, movement proteins, TMV, HIV

University of Vienna
Dr. Bohrgasse 9
A-1030 Vienna, Austria
email

Ann M. Hirsch

Areas of Expertise: plant-microbe interactions

University of California at Los Angeles
Department of Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology
Los Angeles, California 90095-1606 USA
email
website

Anton Hartmann

Areas of Expertise:

GSF
Munich, Germany
email

Jutta Ludwig-Mueller

Areas of Expertise:

Technical University
Dresden Germany
email

Marcelle Holsters

Areas of Expertise: plant-microbe interactions, nitrogen fixation, symbiosis

Professor
Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology
Gent University
Technologiepark 927
B-9000 Gent, Belgium
email
website

 

Takayuki Hoson

Areas of Expertise: cell surface interaction, graviresponse, growth and develpoment

Department of Biology
Osaka City University
Sugimoto, Sumiyoshi-ku
Osaka 558-8585, Japan
email

website

Masahiro Inouhe

Areas of Expertise: sugar metabolism, cell wall, heavy metal, auxin, growth response

Department of Biology
Faculty of Science
Ehime University
2-5 Bunkyo-cho, Matsuyama
Ehime 790-8577 Japan
email

Kimiharu Ishizawa

Areas of Expertise: plant physiology, stress physiology, anaerobiosis Ethylene physiology

Professor
Miyagi University of Education
Sendai 980-0845, Japan
email

Kaori Tomita-Yokotani

Areas of Expertise: allelopathy, plant physiology

Instructor
Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences
Applied Biochemistry and Life Sciences
University of Tsukuba
Tsujuba, Ibaraki, 305-8572, Japan
email

Patrick Hussey

Areas of Expertise: signaling to the cytoskeleton

School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
University of Durham
South Road
Durham DH1 3LE, UK
email
website

Michael Deeks

Areas of Expertise:

email

Andrei Smertenko

Areas of Expertise:

email

Timothy Hawkins

Areas of Expertise:

email

Gwyneth Ingram

Areas of Expertise: receptor kinase signaling, embryogenesis, epidermal development, cell-cell signaling

Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences
University of Edinburgh
King's Buildings
Mayfield Rd
Edinburgh EH9 3JR UK
email
website

 

Thomas Paul Jahn

Areas of Expertise: molecular plant nutrition, nutrient transport, assimilation, stress

Associate Professor
The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural Univeresity
Department of Agricultural Sciences
Thorvaldsensvej 40
DK-1871 Frederiksburg C, Denmark
email
website

Ian M. Moller

Areas of Expertise: mitochondria, reactive oxygen species, proteomics, oxidized proteins, protein phosphorylation

Research Professor
The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural Univeresity
Department of Agricultural Sciences
Thorvaldsensvej 40
DK-1871 Frederiksburg C, Denmark
email

Alexander Schulz

Areas of Expertise:

email

Liwen Jiang

Areas of Expertise: protien targeting, organelle biogenesis

Department of Biology
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, New Territories
Hong Kong, China
email
website

Zeng-Fu Xu

Areas of Expertise: proteases and protease inhibitors,
phloem development

Key Laboratory of Gene Engineering of Ministry of Education
State Key Laboratory for Biocontrol
School of Life Sciences
Sun Yet-sen University
135 West Xin-Gang Road
Guangzhou 510275, Guangdong China
email

Antonio Fernandez Tiburcio

Fisiologia Vegetal
Facultad de Farmacia
Universidad de Barcelona
Diagonal 643
08028-Barcelona
Email

Tomonori Kawano

Areas of Expertise: calcium signaling, biology of reactive oxygen species, plant-microbe interactions

Associate Professor
Graduate School of Env. Engineering
University of Kitakyushu
1-1 Hibikino, Wakamatsu-ku

808-0135 Kitakyushu, Japan
email
website

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John Z. Kiss

Areas of Expertise: gravitropism, phototropism, cytoskeleton, space biology

Professor
Department of Botany
Miami University
Oxford, Ohio 45056 USA
email
website

Karl Hasenstein

Areas of Expertise: Mechanotranstuction, gravitropism, cell biology

Professor
University of Louisiana Lafayette
300 Est St. Mary Blvd.
Lafayette, Louisiana 70504 USA

email

Christopher Makaroff

Areas of Expertise: chromosome structure, cell walls, cytoskeleton

Professor
Departmnet of Chemistry and Biology
Miami University
Hughes Laboratories
Miami, Florida, USA
email

Daniel F. Klessig

Areas of Expertise: molecular plant pathology

Scientist
Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research
Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
email
website

Predeep Kachroo

Areas of Expertise: Plant-Microbe Interactions

Asst. Professor
University of Kentucky
1405 Veterans Drive, 244 Plant Science Bldg.
Lexington, Kentucky 40546 USA

email

Peter Moffett

Areas of Expertise: plant-microbe interactions

Asst. Scientist
Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant ResearchTower Road
Ithica, New York 14853 USA
email

Dr. U. Kutschera
Institut für Biologie
Universität Kassel
Heinrich-Plett-Str. 40
34109 Kassel
Germany
Email
website
 

Benoit Lacombe

Areas of Expertise: plant nutrition, channels and transporters, patch and voltage clamp, ion selective micro-electrodes, guard cells

Scientist
UMR 5004 Agro-M/CNRS/INRA/UMII
Biochimie et Physiologie Moleculaire des Plantes
Place Viala
34060 Montpellier, France
email
website

Jean-Baptiste Thibaud

Areas of Expertise: plant nutrition, channels and transporters, patch and voltage clamp, ion selective micro-electrodes, guard cells

Anne-Aliénor Very

Areas of Expertise: plant nutrition, channels and transporters, patch and voltage clamp, ion selective micro-electrodes, guard cells

Simcha Lev-Yadun

Areas of Expertise: developmental processes in plants, defensive coloration

Department o f Biology
Faculty of Science and Science Education
University of Haifa-Oranim
Tivon 36006, Isreal
email
website

Editors

Shahal Abbo

Areas of Expertise: Legume and cereal genetics, Dry-land crop physiology

RH Smith Institute of Plant Science and Genetics in Agriculture
Hebrew University of Jerus
P.O. Box 12
Rehovot 76100, Isreal

email

Moshe A. Flaishman

Areas of Expertise: Physiology and biotechnology of fruit trees

Department of Fruit Trees, Institute of Horticulture
Agricultural Research Organization
The Volcani Center
P.O. Box 6
Bet Dagan 50250, Isreal

email

Moshe Inbar

Areas of Expertise: Plant animal interactions, Gall induction, Aphid biology

Department of Evoultionary & Environmental Biology
Faculty of Science and Science Educationj
University of Haifa, Mount Caramel
Haifa 31905, Isreal

email

Alex Levine

Areas of Expertise: oxidative stress signaling, plant membrane trafficking, abiotic stress tolerance

Department of Plant Sciences
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Givat-Ram, Jerusalem 91904 Israel
email
website

Jianfeng Li

Areas of Expertise: plant myosins, cytoskeleton, plant defense signaling, plant innate immunity

Harvard Medical School
Department of Genetics
Richard B. Simches Research Building
185 Cambridge St., CPZN7250
Boston MA USA

email

Editors

 

 

Jinxing Lin

Areas of Expertise: pollen tube development, proteomics, cell biology

Department of Molecular and Developmental Biology
Institute of Botany
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiangshan, Beijing 100093 China

email
website

Editors

Ivan Nijs

Areas of Expertise: community ecology, climate change, invasive species

Professor
University of Antwerp
Department of Biology
Universiteitsplein 1

B-2610 Wilrijk, Belgium
email

 

Keith Lindsey

Areas of Expertise: plant developmental genetics

Professor of Plant Molecular Biology
The Integrative Cell Biology Laboratory
Durham Universeity
Durham, UK
email
website

Editors

John Doonan

Areas of Expertise: cell cycle, growth control

Group Leader
John Innes Center
Colony Lane
Norwich, NR4 7 UH, UK
email

Peter Doerner

Areas of Expertise:


email

Emmanuel Liscum

Areas of Expertise: phototropism, auxin responses, integrative systems biology

Associate Professor
Co-Director of Graduate Studies
Division of Biological Sciences
371E Life Sciences Center
University of Missouri
Columbia, Missouri 65211 USA
email
website

Editors

Kevin M. Folta

Areas of Expertise: photomorphogenesis, flowering, RNA stability, functional and structural genomics in Fragaria

Assistant Professor
Horticultural Sciences Department
1301 Fifield Hall
PO Box 110690
Gainsville, Florida 32611 USA
email
website

John Christie

Areas of Expertise: photomorphogenesis, light signaling, protein structure-function

Royal Society University Research Fellow
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Institute of Biomedical Sciences
Bower Building
University of Glasgow
G12 8QQ, Scottland, UK
email
website

Alison DeLong

Areas of Expertise: protein phosphatase action, auxin transport, root growth

Assistant Professor
Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry
Brown University
J.W. Wilson Lab, BoxG-J115
69 Brown Street
Providence, Rhode Island 02912 USA
email
website

Sheng Luan

Areas of Expertise: molecular network of plant signaling, protein phosphatase/kinase, calcium, calcium-dependent signaling

Professor
University of California, Berkeley
451 Keshland Hall
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
Berkeley, California 94720 USA
email
website

Editors

Chentao Lin

Areas of Expertise: light signal translation, photoreceptors

Professor
Department of MCDB
University of California
Los Angeles, California 90095-1606
email

Zhiyong Wang

Areas of Expertise:


email

Frank Ludewig

Areas of Expertise: plant yield, C/N ratio, GABA, energy

University of Cologne
Botanical Institute
Gyrhofster
15
50931 Cologne, Germany
email
website

Editors

Frederik Bornke

Areas of Expertise: biochemistry, physiology, molecular biology of primary metabolism

Assistent Professor
Biochemistry Department
University Erlangen-Numberg
Staudstrasse 5
91058 Erlangen, Germany

email

Oliver Trentmann

Areas of Expertise: plant transport proteins

Research Associate
TU Kaiserlautern/Plant Physiology
Erwin-Schroedinger-Strasse
67663 Kaiserlautern, Germany
email

Eric van der Graaff

Areas of Expertise: plant development, expression profiling

Biology Institute III
University of Freiburg
Schanzlestrasse 1
D-79104 Freiburg im Br., Germany
email

Ivana Machackova

Areas of Expertise: phytohormones, effect of electric current (potential) on plant development, phototropism, rhythmicity

Director
Institute of Experimental Botany
Czech Academy of Sciences
Rozvojova 135
16502 Prague 6, Czech Republic
email
website

Editors

Jan Martinec

Areas of Expertise:

Institute od Experimental Botany AS CR
Rozvojova 135
16502 Praha 6 CR

email

Olga Valentova

Areas of Expertise:

Insitute of Chemical Technology Prague
Technicka 5
16628 Praha 6 CR
email
website

Volker Magnus

Areas of Expertise: physiology, biochemistry, chemistry of auxins

Senior Investigator
Institut Rudjer Boskovic
Bijenicka cesta 54
PO Box 180
HR-1002 Zagreb, Croatia
email
website

Editors

Jyh-Ching Chou

Areas of Expertise: plant hormone metabolism

Assistant Professor
National Dong Hwa University
Department of Life Science and institute of Biotechnology
Shou-feng, Hualien 97401, Taiwan

email

Dennis M. Reinecke

Areas of Expertise:

Department of Agrigultural, Food and Nutritional Science
University of Alberta
4-10 Ag/Forestry Building
Edmonton, Alberta Canada T6G 2P5

email

Alexis Maizel

Areas of Expertise: evolution, development, cell biology, molecular biology

Department of Molecular Biology
Max-Planck Inst of Developmental Biology
Spenannstrass 37-39
D-72076 Tuebingen, Germany
email
website

Editors

Martin Crespi

Areas of Expertise: non-coding RNAs, root architecture, abiotic stresses

Director of Research CNRS
Institut des Sciences du Végétal-CNRS
1 Avenue de la Terrasse
F91198 Gif sur Yvette, France

email

Jan Lohmann

Areas of Expertise: meristem control, floral patterning, expression filing

Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
Spemannstrasse 37-39
D-72076 Tuebingen, Germany

email

Florian Frugier

Areas of Expertise: cytokinin signaling, root architecture, regulatory RNAs, abiotic stress

Researcher
Institut des Sciences du Vegetal (ISV), CNRS
1 avenue de la Terrasse
91198 Gif-sur-Yvette cedex
email

Francois Parcy

Areas of Expertise:

email

Enrico Martinoia

Areas of Expertise: transporters, vacuole, ABC transporters, vacuolar transporters and channels, heavy metals

Institute of Plant Physiology
University of Zurich
ZŸrich, Switzerland
email
website

Editors
 

Patrick H. Masson

Areas of Expertise:

Laboratory of Genetics
University of Wisconsin Ð Madison
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
email
website

Editors

Roger Hangarter

Areas of Expertise: plant responses to light and gravity

Professor
Indiana University
915 East 3rd Street
Bloomington, IN 47405

email

 

Jaideep Mathur

Areas of Expertise: plant cytoskeleton and morphogenesis

Department of Plant Agriculture
University of Guelph
Crop Science Building, 50 Stone Road
Guelph, Ontario, Canada NIG2W1
email
website

Editors
 

Hideaki Matsumoto

Areas of Expertise: plant and abiotic environment (aluminum stress)

Emeritus Professor
Research Institute for Bioresources
Okayama University
Chuo 2-20-1
Kurashiki, Okayama 710-0046 Japan
email
website

Editors

Toru Fujiwara

Areas of Expertise:

Biotechnology Research Center
The University of Tokyo
Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan
email

Mayandi Sivaguru

Areas of Expertise:

Molecular Cytology Core
Biomolecular Research Facilities
120 Life Sciences Center
University of Missouri
Columbia, Missouri 65211 USA
email

Maki Katsuhara

Areas of Expertise:

Research Institute for Bioresources
Okyama University
Chuo 2-20-1, Kurashiki
Okyama, 710-0046, Japan
email

Brigitte Mauch-Mani

Areas of Expertise: induced resistance, priming, signaling in plant-pathogen interactions

University of Neuchatel
Lab. of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Rue Emile-Argand 11, BP2
CH-2007 Neuchatel, Switzerland
email

Editors

Victor Flors

Areas of Expertise: signal perception and transduction, plant abiotic and biotic stress

Department of Experimental Sciences
Plant Physiology Section
University of jaume I
Borriol s/n
12071 Castellon Spain
email

Laurent Zimmerli

Areas of Expertise: microarrays, plant-pathogen interactions

National Taiwan University
Institute of Plant Biology
Rm 1150, Life Science Building
No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road
Taipei 106 Taiwan
email

Gabor Jakab

Areas of Expertise: lipid signaling in biotic and abiotic stress, reverse genetics

Department of plant Physiology
Univeristy of Pecs
H-7601 Pecs P.O. Box 266
Hungary
email

Jean-Pierre Metraux

Areas of Expertise:

Department of Biology
University of Fribourg
Fribourg, Switzerland
email
website

Editors
 

Jose Luis Micol

Areas of Expertise:

Division de Genetica
Departamento de Biologia Aplicada
Universidad Miguel Hernandez
Campus de Elche
Edificio Vinalopo
03202 Elche, Alicante Spain
email
website

Editors

Miguel A. Blazquez

Areas of Expertise: hormone signaling, flowering time

Instituto de Biologia Molecular y Celular de Plantas
(UPV-CSIC)
Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
Avda. de los Naranjos s/n
email

Ana Cano-Delgado

Areas of Expertise: arabidopsis, morphogenesis, brassinosteroids, recepto kinases, signal transduction, vascular development, procambium, xylem phloem

Consorcio CSIC-IRTA
Dept. Genética Molecular
CSIC-Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG)
C/Jordi Girona 18-26
Barcelona 08034, Spain
email

Juan Carlos del Pozo

Areas of Expertise: degradation, proteasome, ubiquitin, SCF, Auxin, cell division

Instituto Nacional de Investigacion y Tecnologia Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA)
INIA. Dept. de Biotecnologia
Carrt. de la Coruna Km 7,5
28040 Madrid, Spain
email

Godfrey P. Miles

Areas of Expertise: oxidant-induced (ozone and UV) signaling, oxidant stress, antioxidants, ozone chemistry, proteomics: ICAT, iTRAQ, and metabolic labeling

University of Cambridge
Hopkins Building, Downing Site
Tennis Court Road
Cambridge CB2 1QW UK
email

Editors


Marcus Samuel

Areas of Expertise: stress signaling, ROS stress, receptor kinases, MAPK signaling

University of Toronto
25 Wilcocks Street
Toronto, Ontario Canada M5S 3B2

email


Yoshie Momonoki

Areas of Expertise: molecular biology, function of plant acetylcholine-mediated system, stress physiology

Faculty of Bioindustry
Tokyo University of Agriculture
196 Yasaka, Abashiri, Hokkaido 0992493 Japan
email

Editors
Hiroshi Miyake

Areas of Expertise: ultrastructure, electron microsopy, immunoelectron microscopy, environmental stress on plants

Laboratory of Plant Resources and Environment
Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences
Nagoya University
Chikusa, Nagoya 46-8601 Japan
website

Yoshiyuki Tanaka

Areas of Expertise: molecular biology of ion transporters, salt tolerance

National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences
2-1-2 Kanninndai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8602 Japan
email

Mitsuru Akita

Areas of Expertise: cell biology, biochemistry, protein targeting, molecular chaperone

Faculty of Agriculture
Ehime University
3-5-7 Tarumi, Matsuyama, Ehime 790-8566 Japan
email

Name

Areas of Expertise:


email
website

Editors

Bernd Mueller-Roeber

Areas of Expertise: functional genomics, cell signaling, lipid signaling, membrane transporters, transcription regulation, leaf growth

University of Potsdam
Department of Molecular Biology
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25, H. 20
D-14476 Golm, Germany
email

Laszlo Bogre

Areas of Expertise: phospholipid-activated protein kinase signaling, AGC kinases, MAP kinases, PDK1, cell cycle, cyclins

Royal Holloway
University of London
School of Biological Sciences
Egham, TW20 0EX, UK
email
website

Ivo Feussner

Areas of Expertise: lipid metabolism, lipid peroxidation processes, lipoxygenases, oxylipin biosynthesis, oxylipin signaling

Department of Plant Biochemistry
Albrecht-von-Haller-Institute for Plant Sciences
Georg-August-University Goettingen
Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 11
D-37077 Goettingen, Germany
email
website

Teun Munnik

Areas of Expertise: phospholipid signaling, phosphatidic acid, lipid-derived second messengeres, plant stress, phospholipase

Associate Professor
University of Amsterdam
Section of Plant Physiology
Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences
University of Amsterdam
Kruislaan 318
NL-1098, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
email
website

Editors

Bernd Mueller-Roeber

Areas of Expertise: functional genomics, cell signaling, lipid signaling, membrane transporters, transcription regulation, leaf growth

University of Potsdam
Department of Molecular Biology
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25, H. 20
D-14476 Golm, Germany
email

Laszlo Bogre

Areas of Expertise: phospholipid-activated protein kinase signaling, AGC kinases, MAP kinases, PDK1, cell cycle, cyclins

Royal Holloway
University of London
School of Biological Sciences
Egham, TW20 0EX, UK
email
website

Ivo Feussner

Areas of Expertise: lipid metabolism, lipid peroxidation processes, lipoxygenases, oxylipin biosynthesis, oxylipin signaling

Department of Plant Biochemistry
Albrecht-von-Haller-Institute for Plant Sciences
Georg-August-University Goettingen
Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 11
D-37077 Goettingen, Germany
email
website

Susan Murch

Areas of Expertise: neurologically active chemicals produced by plants

Chemistry Department
I.K. Barber School of Arts & Sciences
University of British Colombia, Okanagan Campus
3333 University Way
Kelowna, B.C., Canada V1V 1V7
email
website

Editors

Peter Facchini

Areas of Expertise:

Department of Biological Sciences
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta
T2N 1N4, Canada
email

Victor Radov

Areas of Expertise:

ARO-The Volcani Center
Faculty of Agricultural, Food and
Environmental Quality Sciences
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
email

Marino Banon Arnao

Areas of Expertise:

Plant Phisiology
University of Murcia
Spain-30100
email

Editors

Peter Neumann

Areas of Expertise: environmental stress, plant growth physiology

Professor
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Department of Environmental, Water & Agricultural Engineering
Haifa 32-000, Israel
email
website

Editors

Shimon Gepstein

Areas of Expertise:

email

 

Velemir Ninkovic

Areas of Expertise: communication between plants, multi-trophic interaction

Researcher
Department of Entomology
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
PO Box 7044
S-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
email
website

Editors

Jan Pettersson

Areas of Expertise: aphids, aphid-plant interactions

Professor
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SLU
Department of Entomology
75007 Uppsala, Sewden
email

Robert Glinwood

Areas of Expertise: entomology, chemical eurology

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SLU
Department of Entomology
Uppsala, Sewden
email

Inger Åhman

Areas of Expertise: plant breeding, resistance to insects

SW Laboratory
Svalof Weibull AB
SE-26881 Svalov, Sweden
email

Ariel Novoplansky

Areas of Expertise:

Blaustein Institute for Desert Research
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Negev, Israel
email
website

Editors

Heidrun Huber

Areas of Expertise: plant evolutionary ecology, phenotypic plasticity, clonal growth, developmental ecology

Asst. Professor
Radboud University Nijmegen
Toernoolvald 1
6525 ED Mijmengen
The Netherlands
email

Nicole M. van Dam

Areas of Expertise: chemical ecology of plant-herbivore interactions

Senior Scientist
Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-UNAN)
PO Box 40
6666 26 Heteren, The Netherlands
email

Fernando Valladares

Areas of Expertise: Ecophysiology of Mediterranean plants,
phenotypic plasticity

CSIC
CCMA-IRN
Serrano 115
Madrid Spain E-28006

email

Thorsten Nuernberger

Areas of Expertise:

Eberhard-Karls University
Auf der Morgenstelle
D-72076 Tuebingen, Germany
email
website

Editors
 

Daphne J. Osborne

Areas of Expertise: plant physiology, seeds, DNA

Professor
Oxford Research Unit
The Open Univeresity
Foxcombe Hall
Boars Hill
Oxford OX1 5HR UK
email
website

Editors
 

Ralph Panstruga

Areas of Expertise: plant-microbe interactions

Group Leader
Max-Planck-Institute for Plant Breeding Research
Carl-von-linne-weg 10
D-50829
Cologne, Germany
email
website

Editors

Riyaz A. Bhat

Areas of Expertise: fluorescence microscopy, imaging technologies, cell biology

Max-Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
Department of Plant-Microbe Interactions
Carl-von-Linné-Weg 10
50829 Germany
email

 

Paul W. Pare

Areas of Expertise: plant signaling

Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX 79409 USA
email
website

Editors
 

Katharina Pawlowski

Areas of Expertise: plant-microbe symbiosis

Department of Botany
Stockholm University
10691 Stockholm Sweden
email
website

Editors
 

B.W. Poovaiah

Areas of Expertise: calcium, calmodulin-mediated signaling

Washington State University
Center for Integrated Biotechnology and Department of Horticulture
Pullman, Washington 99164-6414 USA
email
website

Editors
Giles E.D. Oldroyd
Tianbao Yang

Thÿs L. Pons

Areas of Expertise: plant ecophysiology

Department of Plant Ecophysiology
Utrecht University
Sorbonnelaan 16
3584 CA Utrecht
The Netherlands
email
website

Editors
 

Javier Pozueta Romero

Areas of Expertise: carbohydrate metabolism, sugar sensing, starch, sucrose, endocytosis, metabolic engineering

Inst of Agrobiotechnology
Public University of Navarra/National Research Council (CSIC)
Carretera de Mutilva s/n
31192 Mutilva Baja
Navarra, Spain
email
website

Editors

Leszek A. Kleczkowski

Areas of Expertise: sucrose metabolsim, photorespiration, starch synthesis, sugar signaling

Professor
Department of Plant Physiology
Umea Plant Science Center
Umea University
901-87 Uema, Sweden
email
website

Ed Etxeberria

Areas of Expertise: intracellular transport, compartmentation vacuolar storage, membrane transport

Professor
University of Florida
Citrus Research and Education Center
700 Experiment Station Road
Lake Alfred, Florida 33850 USA
email
website

Toshiaki Mitsui

Areas of Expertise: seed maturing and germination, temperature stress, protein traffic, Golgi, carbohydrate metabolism

Department of Applied Biological Chemistry
Niigata University
8050 Ikarashi-2, Niigata 950-2181 Japan
email
website

Alain Pugin

Areas of Expertise: signaling in plant-microbe interactions, calcium

Professor
Plant-Microbe-Environment
INRA University of Bourgogne
17 Rue Sully, BP 95510
21065 Dijon Cedex, France
email
website

Editors

Pierre Abad

Areas of Expertise: plant-microbe interactions

Head of Department
Interactions Plantes-Microorganisms et Sante Vegetale
INRA/CNRS/Universite de Nice-Sophia Antipolis
400, Route des Chappes
06903 Sophia Antipolis cedex, France

email

Harald Keller

Areas of Expertise: signaling in plant-microbe interactions, calcium

Project Leader
Interactions Plantes-Microorganisms et Sante Vegetale
INRA/CNRS/Universite de Nice-Sophia Antipolis
400, Route des Chappes
06903 Sophia Antipolis cedex, France

email

Raoul Ranjeva

Areas of Expertise: compartmentation of signaling pathways

Surfaces Cellulaires et Signalisation chez les Végétaux
UMR CNRS-UPS 5546
Pôle de Biotechnologie Végétal
24 chemin de Borde-Rouge
BP 42617 Auzeville
31326 Castanet Tolosan
email

Editors

Axel Mithoefer

Areas of Expertise: perception and signaling in plant-pathogen/herbivore interactions, calcium signaling

Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
Department of Bioorganic Chemistry
Hans Knöll Str 8
D-07745 Jena, Germany

email

Jean Vidal

Areas of Expertise:

IBP
CNRS, UMR 8618
Université de Paris-Sud, bât 630
91405, Orsay Cedex, France
email

Sylvie Coursol

Areas of Expertise: drought stress responses, abscisic acid signal transduction, lipid-mediated signaling

UMR dwe Génétique Végétale
INRA/CNRS/Université Paris XI/INA-PG
Ferme du Moulon
91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
email

Haiyun Ren

Areas of Expertise: cytoskeleton, pollen development, tip growth, protein phosphorylation

Professor
College of Life Science
Beijing Normal University
#19 Xin Jie Kou Wai Street
Beijing 100875, China
email
website

Editors

Ming Yuan

Areas of Expertise: cytoskeleton

Professor
College of Biological Sciences
China Agricultural University
Beijjing 100094, China

email

Maria-Carmen Risueno

Areas of Expertise: development, pollen, pollen-embryogenesis, stress and signaling proteins, cell proliferation, programmed cell death, cellular architecture under abiotic stress, microgravity

Plant Development and Nuclear Organization Unit
Biological Research Centre (CIB), C.S.I.C.
Madrid, Spain
email
website

Editors
 

Stephen Roberts

Areas of Expertise:

Department of Biological Sciences
Lancaster University
Lancaster, UK
email
website

Editors
 

Chris Rock

Areas of Expertise: hormone signaling

Department of Biological Sciences
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, Texas 79409-3131 USA
email
website

Editors

 

Thomas F. Schultz

Areas of Expertise: abiotic stress signaling, hormones, plant development

Senior Scientist
The Scripps Institute
La Jolla, California USA
email
website

Jozef Samaj

Areas of Expertise: MAPK signaling, cytoskeleton

Senior Researcher
Institute of Cellular and Molecular Botany
University of Bonn
Kirschallee 1
53115 Bonn, Germany
email
website

Editors

Zhi-Liang

Areas of Expertise: Rop/Rac GTPase signaling, MYS transcription factor, abscisic acid, carbon-nitogen nutrient balance

City University of New York
Davis Hall 107, Department of Biological Sciences
250 Bedford Park Blvd West
Bronx, New York 10468 USA

email

Karsten Niehaus

Areas of Expertise:

Proteom- und Metabolomforschung
Universitaet Bielefeld
Postfach 100 131
D-33501 Bielefeld, Germany
email
website

Jianhua Zhu

Areas of Expertise: plant responses to cold, salt, drought stress, ABA, gene silencing

Department of Botany and Plant Sciences
Institute for Integrative Genome Biology
University of California, Riverside

2105 Batchelor Hall
Riverside, California 92521 USA
email

Masa Sato

Areas of Expertise:

Department of Dynamics of Natural Environment
Kyoto University
Kyoto, Japan
email
website

Editors

Miyo Terao Morita

Areas of Expertise: gravitropism, membrane traffic

Graduate School of Biological Science
Nara Institute of Science and Technology
8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma
Nara 630-0101, Japan

email

Takashi Shiina

Areas of Expertise: photosynthesis, transcriptional regulation

Department of Plant Science
Kyoto Prefectural Society
Shimogamo-nakaragi-cho, Sakyo-ku
Kyoto 606-8522, Japan

email

G. Eric Schaller

Areas of Expertise: ethylene, cytokinin, two-component signaling, proteomics, receptor kinases

Associate Professor
Dartmouth College
Department of Biological Sciences
Hanover, NH 03755 USA
email
website

Editors

Joseph J. Kieber

Areas of Expertise: ethylene and cytokinin signaling

University of North Carolina
Department of Biology
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 USA

email

Patrick J. Krysan

Areas of Expertise: MAP kinase signaling

University of Wisconsin
Department of Horticulture and
Genome Center of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin 53706 USA
email
website

Frans E. Tax

Areas of Expertise: receptor kinases

University of Arizona
Life Sciences South 440
Tuscon, Arizona
85721 USA
email

Lukas Schreiber

Areas of Expertise: Casparian band, endodermis, plant cuticle, suberin, root biology, plant environment interaction, root biology, leaf surface

Professor
Ecophysiology of Plants IZMB
Institute of Cellular and Molecular Botany
University of Bonn Kirschallee 1,
D-53115 Bonn, Germany
email
website

Editors

Uwe Conrath

Areas of Expertise:

Department of Plant Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
RWTH Aachen University
1 Worringer Weg
Aachen, Germany 52074
email

Franck Pinot

Areas of Expertise:

Chercheur CNRS
IBMP-CNRS
Department Responses Metabiliques a l'Environnement Biotique
28, rue Goethe
F-67 083 Strasbourg cedex France
email

Mark A. Bernards

Areas of Expertise:

Department of Biology
North Campus Building, Room 404
University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B7
email

Jack C. Schultz

Areas of Expertise:

Center for Chemical Ecology
Penn State University
University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
email
website

Editors
 

Sergey Shabala

Areas of Expertise: stress physiology, mambrane transport, general electrophysiology, biological rhythms, light signalling

School of Agricultural Science
University of Tasmania
Hobart, Australia
email
website

Editors

Tracey A. Cuin

Areas of Expertise: electrophysiology, single cell ion and water relations, salt tolerance

Department of Agricultural Sciences
University of Tasmania
GPO Box 252-254
Hobart, Tasmania 7001
Austrailia
email

Chris Gehring

Areas of Expertise: novel growth regulators, signal transduction

Department of Biotechnology
University of the Western Cape
Private Bag x17, Bellville 7535
South Africa
email

Igor Pottosin

Areas of Expertise: electrophysiology, ion transport, intracellular membranes

Professor
Centro Universitario de Investigaciones Biomedicas
Universidad de Colima
Av. 25 le julio #965
Villa de San Sebastian
28045 Colima, Col., Mexico
email

Leslie E. Sieburth

Areas of Expertise:

University of Utah
Department of Biology
Salt Lake City, Utah USA
email
website

Editors
 

Rainer Stahlberg

Areas of Expertise: plant-leaf growth, electrical signals, photobiology, biomechanic

Department of Biology
College of Arts and Sciences
University of Washington
Box 355325
Seattle, Washington 98195 USA
email
website

Editors
 

Fedora Sutton

Plant Physiology/Plant biochemistry
South Dakota State University
Laboratories PSB 157
Brookings SD 57007 USA
email
website

Mark Tester

Areas of Expertise: plant electrophysiology, salinity tolerance

Professor
Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics
University of Adelaide
Hartley Grove
Urrbrae, SA 5065, Australia
email
website

Editors
 

Michel Thellier

Areas of Expertise: plant signaling, analytical imaging, theoretical modelling

Emeritus Professor
Laboratory AMMIS, FRE CNRS 2829
Faculte des Sciences de l' Universite de Rouen
F-76821 Mont-Saint-Aignan,
Cedex, France
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Hans Thordal-Christensen

Areas of Expertise: plant-pathogen interactions

Department of Agricultural Sciences
The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University
Thorvaldsensvej 40
DK--1871 Frederiksberg C, Denmark
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Christina Dixelius

Areas of Expertise: plant-fungal interactions

University of Agricultural Sciences
Department of Plant Biology & Forest Genetics
750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
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Jaako Kangasjarvi

Areas of Expertise: ROS signaling, hormonal interactions and oxidative stress, abiotic stress

University of Helsinki
Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences
FIN-00014 Helsinki
Finland
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Ton Timmers

Areas of Expertise: plant-microbe symbiotic interactions

Laboratory of Plant-Microorganism Interactions
INRA/CNRS
24 Chemin de Boerderouge, Bp52627
31326 Castanet-Tolosan France
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Andreas Niebel

Areas of Expertise: symbiotic plant-microbe interactions

CNRS-INRA
Chemin de Borde-Auzeville BP52627
31326 Castanet-Tolosan Cedex-France

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Etienne-Pascal Journet

Areas of Expertise: symbiotic plant-microbe interactions

CNRS-INRA
Laboratoire des Interactions Plantes-microorganismes BP 27 27
31326 Castanet-Tolosan Cedex-France
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Lesley Torrence

Areas of Expertise: plant pathology, plant virology, pathogen-host interactions

Programme of Plant-Pathogen Interactions
Scottish Crop Research Institute
By Dundee, DD2 5DA, Scotland, UK
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Angelika Ziegler

Areas of Expertise: molecular plant pathology, plant virology, plant cell biology, molecular and cellular mechanisms of disease susceptibility and resistance

Scottish Crop Research Institute
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Sophie Haupt

Areas of Expertise: molecular plant pathology, plant virology, plant cell biology, molecular and cellular mechanisms of disease
susceptibility and resistance

University of Dundee
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Kazimierz Trebacz

Areas of Expertise: plant biophysics, plant physiology, plant electrophysiology

Professor
Department of Biophysics
Maria Curie Sklodowska University
Academicka 19
20-033 Lublin, Poland
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H. Dziubinska

Areas of Expertise: electrical signals in plants

Department of Bio Physics
Institute of Biology, UMCS
20-033 Lublin Akademicka 19
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Elzbieta Krol

Areas of Expertise: electrical signals in plants

Department of Bio Physics
Institute of Biology, UMCS
20-033 Lublin Akademicka 19
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Frank Turano

Areas of Expertise: Glu and GABA-mediated signaling, molecular biology, biochemistry

Associate Professor
Department of Biological Sciences George
The G eorge Washington University
2023 G St. NW, Lisner 340
Washington D.C., USA
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Ted C.J. Turlings

Areas of Expertise: chemical ecology, plant-insect interactions

Director of Research
University of Neuchatel
Institute of Zoology
Case Postale 2
CH-2007 Neuchatel, Switzerland
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Marco D'Alessandro

Areas of Expertise: chemical ecology of plants and insects

Institute of Zoology
University of Neuchatel
Case postale 2
2007, Neuchatel, Switzerland
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Jennifer Thaler

Areas of Expertise:

Cornell University
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Michael Rostas

Areas of Expertise: chemical ecology, plant-insect interactions

Department of Botany II
University of Wüerzburg
Julius-von-Sachs-Platz 3
97082 Wüerzburg, Germany
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Dr. Jurriaan Ton

Areas of Expertise: molecular plant-microbe, plant-insect interactions

Section Phytopathology
Utrecht University
Faculty of Biology
PO Box 800.84,
3508 TB Utrecht The Netherlands
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Narendra Tuteja

Areas of Expertise: abiotic stress response, abiotic stress tolerance, calcium dependent signaling, MAP kinase signaling, MAP kinases, plant abiotic and biotic stress, salinity tolerance

Plant Molecular Biology Group
International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB)
Aruna Asaf Ali Marg
New Delhi Ð 110 067 India
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Takashi Ueda

Areas of Expertise: vesicular traffic, rab GTPase, organelle biogenesis

Department of Biological Sciences
University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan
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Tetsuya Higashiyama

Areas of Expertise: plant reproduction

Graduate School of Science
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Tokyo
Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku
Tokyo, 113-0033 Japan
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Shinichiro Sawa

Areas of Expertise: molecular genetics and vascular development

Graduate School of Science
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Tokyo
Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku
Tokyo, 113-0033 Japan

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Aart van Bel

Areas of Expertise: electrophysiology, phloem biology

Full Professor, Head of Department
Institute of General Botany
Justus-Liebig University
Senckenbergstrasse 17
D-35390 Giessen, Germany
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Dominique Van Der Straeten

Areas of Expertise: hormonal cross-talk, stress physiology, folates, plant development, bio-imaging

Professor and Research Leader
Unit of Plant Hormone Signaling and Bio-Imaging
Department of Molecular Genetics
Ghent University
Ledeganckstraat 35

B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
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Peter Hedden

Areas of Expertise: plant hormone metabolism and signaling

Project Leader
Rothamsted Research
Harpenden, Hertforshire AL5 2JQ, UK
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Jeffrey Leung

Areas of Expertise: abscisic acid, draught stress, protein phosphorylation, stomata signaling

Senio Staff Scientist (CNRS)
Institut des Sciences du Végétal
1 Avenue de la Terrasse Bat. 23
Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Graham Noctor

Areas of Expertise: antioxidants, reactive oxygen, and redox state

University of Paris
Institute of Plant Biotechnologies
91045 Orsay, France
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Liz Van Volkenburgh

Areas of Expertise: physiological mechanisms of leaf growth

Professor
College of Arts and Sciences, Biology Dept.
University of Washington
Box 35-5375
Seattle, WA 98195 USA
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John Cheeseman

Areas of Expertise:

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Theo (J.T.M.) Elzenga

Areas of Expertise: photobiology, membrane transport processes, calcium signaling

Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Studies (CEES)
University of Groningen
Kerklaan 30
9751 NN Haren
The Netherlands

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Michelle Holbrook

Areas of Expertise:

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Alain Vian

Areas of Expertise: electromagnetic stimulation, stress-related genes

Universite Blaise Pascal
Physiologie et Genetique Vegetales - ERTAC
Campus des Cezeaux

63177 Aubiere, France
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Jean-Louis Julien

Areas of Expertise: electrophysiology, signal transduction, trees, mechanical stimulation, membrane potential, durmancy

Professor
Universite Blaise Pascal
Campus des Cezeaux
UMR 547 PIAF
24 Avenue des Landais
63117 Aubiere cedex, France

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Francois Paladian

Areas of Expertise: electromagnetic environment, physical devices

Professor
LASMEA
UMR CNRS—Universite Blaise Pascal 6602
24 Avenue des Landais
63117 Aubiere cedex, France

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Jorge M. Vivanco

Areas of Expertise: plant-organism interactions, rhizosphere biology, molecular/biochemical ecology

Department of Horticulture
Center for Rhizosphere Biology
Colorado State University
217 Shepardson
Fort Collins, CO 80523 USA
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Harsh P. Bais

Areas of Expertise: rhizosphere biology, metabolic engineering, plant-microbe interactions, plant physiology

Department of Plant and Soil Sciences
and Delaware Biotechnology Institute
University of Delaware
Newark, Delaware 19714 USA
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Laura Perry

Areas of Expertise: plant chemical ecology, plant community ecology, invasion ecology, restoration ecology, ecological theory

Research Associate III
Department of Forest, Rangeland and Watershed Stewardship
Colorado State University
1472 Campus Delivery
Fort Collins, Colorado 80523 USA

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Balakrishnan Prithiviraj

Areas of Expertise: plant-microbe interactions, plant stress physiology

Asst. Professor & Industrial Research Chair
Department of Plant and Animal Sciences
58 River Road, P.O. Box 550
Nova Scotia Agricultural College
Truro, Nova Scotia B2N 5E3 Canada
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Alexander G. Volkov

Areas of Expertise: plant signaling, bioelectrochemistry, bioenergetics, action potential

Professor
Department of Chemistry
Oakwood College
7000 Adventist Blvd.
Huntsville, AL 35896 USA
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Pia Walch-Liu

Areas of Expertise: nitrogen signaling, phytohormones, shoot and root growth, nitrogen use efficiency

Research Associate
Department of Biological Sciences
Lancaster University
Bailrigg
Lancaster, LA1 4YQ, UK
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Hitoshi Sakakibara

Areas of Expertise: cytokinin metabolism and signaling, nitrogen metabolism and signaling

Laboratory Head
Plant Science Center, RIKEN
Suehiro 1-7-22, Tsurumi
Yokohama 230-0045, Japan

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Anne Krapp

Areas of Expertise: nitrogen metabolism and signalling, carbon-nitogen interaction, sugar signalling, nitrate transporter

INRA
Unite de Nutrition aotéé des plantes
INRA, Centre des Versailles, route de St. Cyr
78026 Versailles cedex, France

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Lai-Hua Liu

Areas of Expertise: glumate receptor, cell signaling, root development, abiotic stress, nitrogen transport, nutrient use efficiency

College of Resource and Environmental Science
China Agriculture University
100094 Beijing, China
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Xuemin Wang

Areas of Expertise: lipid-mediated signaling

University of Missouri-St.Louis
Danforth Plant Science Center
Dept. of Biology
St. Louis, MO 63121 USA
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Wenhua Zhang

Areas of expertise: lipid signaling and stress physiology

Nanjing University
1 Weigang Road
Nanjing, 210095 China
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Dolf Weijers

Wageningen University
Laboratory of Biochemistry
Dreijenlaan 3
6703 HA Wageningen
The Netherlands
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David Wendehenne

Areas of Expertise: nitric oxide signling, plant defense responses

UMR INRA 1088/CNRS 5184
University of Bourgogne
Plante-Microbe-Environment
17 rue Sully
BP 86510 Dijon, France
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Emmanuel Baudouin

Areas of Expertise: nitric oxide signaling, plant-symbiont interactions

Lecturer
Universite de Nice Sophia Antipolis IPMSV
UMR INRA-UNSA-CNRS 6192
400, route des Chappes BP 167
06903 Sophia Antipolis

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David Lecourieux

Areas of Expertise: plant defense, calcium, MAPK

Assistant Professor
Universite de Poitiers
UMR CNRS 6161
Batiment de Botanique
Universite de Poitiers
40 Avenue du recteur Pineau
F-86022 Poitiers cedex, France
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Daniel Wipf

Areas of Expertise: organic nitrogen transport, mycorrhizal association

Research Group Leader
Institute of Cellular and Molecular Botany
University of Bonn
Kirschallee 1
53115 Bonn, Germany
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Sabine Zimmermann

Areas of Expertise: ion channels, transport in symbiosis,
transport in plants

6Biochimie et Physiologie Moléculaire des Plantes
Place Viala, 34060
Montpellier, France

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Wolfgang Koch

Areas of Expertise: transport in plants, amino acid transport

ZMBP Tübingen
Auf der Morgenstelle 1
72076 Tübingen

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Przemyslaw Wojtaszek

Areas of Expertise: cell walls, (glyco)proteins, structural integrity, extracellular signals

Adam Mickiewicz University
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Miedzychodzka 5
Poznan, 60-371 Poland

Polish Academy of Sciences
Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry
Noskowskiego 12/14

Poznan, 61-704 Poland
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Rafael F. Pont-Lezica

Areas of Expertise: cell wall-membrane interactions, cell wall proteins

Universite Paul Sabatier
Polle de Biotechnologie Vegetale
24, Chemie de Borde Rouge
31326- Auzerille
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Halina Gabrys

Areas of Expertise: cytoskeleton, intracellular movements, light signaling, photoreception

Jagiellonian University
Faculty of Biochemistry
Biophysics ans Biotechnology
Gronostajowa 7
PL 30-387 Krakow, Poland
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Ping Wu

Areas of Expertise: plant phosphorus and nitrogen signalling, cell, molecular and devlopmental biology of rice root,
plant molecular physiology of environmental stresses

State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry
College of Life Sciences
Zhejiang University
Hangzhou, 310029 China
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Hong-Wei Xue

Areas of Expertise:

National Key Lab of Plant Molecular Genetics
Institute of Plant Physiology & Ecology
Chinese Academy of Sciences
300 Fenglin Rd.
200032 Shanghai, China
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Huixia Shou

Areas of Expertise: plant molecular physiology of environmental stresses, drought signaling

College of Life Sicences
Zhejiang University
Hangzhou, 310029 China
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Xiaolong Yan

Areas of Expertise: plant hormone signaling and regulation, plant functional genomics

College of Natural Resources and Environmental Science
South China Agricultural University
China

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Hong-Wei Xue

Areas of Expertise:

National Key Lab of Plant Molecular Genetics
Institute of Plant Physiology & Ecology
Chinese Academy of Sciences
300 Fenglin Rd.
200032 Shanghai, China
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Yongbiao Xue

Areas of Expertise: self-incompatibility, functional genomics

Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing, China
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Jagadis Gupta Kapuganti

Areas of Expertise: Nitric Oxide signaling, Energy metabolism, Low Oxygen Signaling

Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology
Dept. Organelle Biology, Biotechnology and Molecular Ecophysiology
Golm, Germany
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Weicai Yang

Areas of Expertise: gametogenesis, plant sexual reproduction

Professor
Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, CAS
Datun Road
Anwai, Chaoyang District
Beijing 100101, China

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Jian Ru Zuo

Areas of Expertise:

Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, CAS
Datun Road
Anwai, Chaoyang District
Beijing 100101, China

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John I. Yoder

Areas of Expertise: plant-plant interactions

University of California, Davis
Department of Plant Sciences
Chair, Section of Agricultural Plant Biology
Davis, California, USA
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Viktor Zarsky

Areas of Expertise: plant cell biology, cell signalling and morphogenesis, small GTPases, pollen development

Plant Physiology
Charles University
Prague, Czech Republic
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Ralf Oelmüller

Areas of Expertise:

Institute of General Botany and Plant Physiology
Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
Dornburger Str. 159
Jena 07743 Germany

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Fatima Cvrckova

Areas of Expertise: cell biology, cell cycle and morphogenesis,
yeast genetics, bioinformatics

Department of Plant Physiology
Charles University
Vinicna 5, CZ 128 44 Praha 2
Czech Republic
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