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editors-in-chief

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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Editors
 

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
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Editors

Alexander Grabov

Areas of Expertise:

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Helen Irving

Areas of Expertise:

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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

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Carlos L. Ballare

Areas of Expertise:

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

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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

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Editors
 

Peter Barlow

Areas of Expertise: cell biology

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

Dirk Becker

Areas of Expertise:

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

Areas of Expertise:

Department of Botany
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
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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
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Editors

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
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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
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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
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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
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website

Editors

Guillaume Becard

Areas of Expertise:

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

Areas of Expertise:

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

Daniel A. Chamovitz

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

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

Ming Yang

Areas of Expertise: cell cycle, cell morphogenesis, recombination

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

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
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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
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Alexander Vainstein

Areas of Expertise: floral scent

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Faculty of Agriculture
Rehovot 76100, Israel
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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
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Editors
Imara Perera

Areas of Expertise: IP3, gravity, SiRNA

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

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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
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Seth Jon Davis

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

Harriet McWatters
Department of Plant Sciences
University of Oxford
South Parks Road
Oxford, OX1 3RB, UK
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Anthony J. Hall
School of Biological Sciences
Biosciences Building
Crown Street
University of Liverpool
Liverpool L69 7ZB, UK
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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
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Editors
 

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
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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
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Vadim Volkov
Areas of Expertise: electrophysiology, water transport
Plant Sciences Group
IBLS, University of Glasgow
Bower Building, Stevenson Annex
G12 8QQ, Glasgow, UK
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Anatoly Sokolik
Areas of Expertise:
Laboratory of Plant Cell Physiology
Biological Faculty
Belarusian State University
4 Skaryna Avenue, 220050
Minsk, Belarus
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Vladimir Yurin
Areas of Expertise:
Department of Physiology and
Biochemistry of Plants
Biological Faculty
Belarusian State University
4 Skaryna Avenue, 220050
Minsk, Belarus
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Marcel Dicke

Areas of Expertise: insect-plant interactions

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

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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

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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

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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
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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
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website

Editors

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
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Yong-Ling Ruan

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

Research Scientist
CSIRO Plant INdustry
Clunies Ross ST.
GPO Box 1600
Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Azeddine Driouich

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

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

Areas of Expertise:

University of Porto
Portugal
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Jill Farrant

Areas of Expertise:

University of Capetown
RSA
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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
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Editors
 

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
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Marta Libik

Areas of Expertise:

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Zbigniew Misalski

Areas of Expertise:

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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
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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
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Jiri Friml

Areas of Expertise:

Department of Developmental Genetics
University of Tuebingen
Tuebingen, Germany
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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
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website

Michael Sauer

Areas of Expertise: auxin, plant development, cell polarity

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

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Jan Petrasek

Areas of Expertise: cytoskeleton, planthormones, in vivo microscopy

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

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Hillel Fromm

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

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

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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
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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
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Jorg Fromm

Areas of Expertise: electrical signalling via the phloem

Professor for Wood Biology
Technical University of Munich
Winzerstrasse 45
80797 Munich, Germany
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Thorsten Grams

Areas of Expertise: ecophysiology, competition, photosynthesis

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

Editors
 

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
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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
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Editors
 

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
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Susana Coelho

Areas of Expertise: intracellular signalling

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

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
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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
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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
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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
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website

Editors

Luciano Avio

Areas of Expertise: plant-microbe interactions

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

Areas of Expertise:

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Christiana Sbrana

Areas of Expertise: plant-microbe interactions

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

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

Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
Biocenter
Weinbergweg 22
D-06120 Halle/Saale
Germany
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Pavla Binarova

Areas of Expertise:

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

Editors
 

Manfred Heinlein

Areas of Expertise:

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

Petra Boevink

Areas of Expertise: virus movement, plasmodesmata

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

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Anton Hartmann

Areas of Expertise:

GSF
Munich, Germany
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Jutta Ludwig-Mueller

Areas of Expertise:

Technical University
Dresden Germany
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