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Pathway & Fluxes

Organellar Signalling

Exploiting the Engine of C4 Photosynthesis

Plant Membrane Biology

Plant Reproduction Development

Special Issues Archive

The aim of the Journal of Experimental Botany is to publish the highest quality manuscripts that address questions of broad interest in plant biology. We welcome manuscripts that identify fundamental mechanisms including those underpinning the improvements of plant for the sustainable production of food, fuel, and renewable materials. Our emphasis is on molecular physiology, molecular genetics, and environmental physiology, and we also encourage integrative approaches employing cutting-edge technologies, systems biology, and synthetic biology.

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Food Security

Patenting of plant varieties and plant breeding methods. Michael Blakeney

The potential for underutilised crops to improve security of food production. Mayes, Massawe, Alderson, Roberts, Azam-Ali, and Hermann

How is ozone pollution reducing our food supply? S Wilkinson, G Mills, R Illidge, and WJ Davies

Improving crop productivity and resource use efficiency to ensure food security and environmental quality in China. Fan et al.

Any trait or trait-related allele can confer drought tolerance: just design the right drought scenario. François Tardieu

Global crop improvement networks to bridge technology gaps. Reynolds et al.

Genetic and management approaches to boost UK wheat yields by ameliorating water deficits. IC Dodd, WR Whalley, ES Ober, and MAJ Parry

Feeding nine billion: the challenge to sustainable crop production. PJ Gregory & TS George

Food standards: the cacophony of governance. Lawrence Busch

Food systems transition and disruptive low carbon innovation: implications for a food security research agenda. David Tyfield

How agro-ecological research helps to address global food security issues under EU's new IPM and pesticide reduction policies. Nicholas E Birch

Meeting the challenge of food and energy security. Angela Karp

China's success in increasing per capita food production. Jianhua Zhang

Reflections on water availability and food security. Elias Fereres

Advance Access: Review papers

Molecular bases and evolutionary dynamics of self-incompatibility in the Pyrinae (Rosaceae) De Franceschi et al.

Softening-up mannan-rich cell walls Iglesias Fernández et al.

Regulation by arbuscular mycorrhizae of the integrated physiological response to salinity in plants. New challenges in physiological and molecular studies Ruiz-Lozano et al.

Sugars and plant innate immunity Bolouri Moghaddam & Van den Ende

The multifaceted role of aspartate-family amino acids in plant metabolism Kirman et al.

Association mapping in forest trees and fruit crops. MA Khan & SS Korban

Xenobiotic sensing and signalling in higher plants. Ramel et al

The pathway of auxin biosynthesis in plants. Y Mano and K Nemoto

Use of the correct heat conduction–convection equation as basis for heat-pulse sap flow methods in anisotropic wood. MW Vandegehuchte & K Steppe

News & Press releases

Welcome to Ariel Vicente (Argentina), Steve Penfield (UK) & Susan von Caemmerer (Australia) who joined the Editorial Board as Handling Editors

A big Welcome to Christine Beveridge, Peter Bozhkov, Tim Colmer, Daphne Goring, Uwe Ludewig, Uwe Rascher, Greg Rebetzke, Hitoshi Sakakibara, Sergey Shabala, Nick Smirnoff, Hideki Takahashi & Michelle Watt who have just joined the JXB Editorial Board as Handling Editors.

Press release March 13, 2012: Wheat Protein has Biotechnology Potential. Read the article: Characterization of the wheat gene encoding a grain-specific lipid transfer protein TdPR61, and promoter activity in wheat, barley and rice

NEW Instructions for Authors, please consult them before submission of a ms

We welcome Christine Raines as new Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Experimental Botany and her team of Associate Editors: Lisa Ainsworth, Christine Foyer, Noni Franklin-Tong, Howard Griffiths, Jim Murray, Jeremy Pritchard, Alison Smith, Cristobal Uauy and Jianhua Zhang

Bill Davies, Eliot Herman, Francois Tardieu, Nick Battey, Mike Emes, Victor Albert and Mark Tester are finishing duties as Editors of JXB; Many thanks to all of them for their contribution to the success of the Journal

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From October 2011: Free colour publication in print for corresponding authors who are members of the Society of Experimental Biology

CBE for 'more crop per drop' scientist: JXB Former Associate Editor & Editor in Chief, Bill Davies, has been awarded a CBE for service to science

A plant's Eye View: researchers study the effects of shade avoidance in crops. Read the full article: A novel high throughput in vivo molecular screen for shade avoidance mutants identifies a novel phyA mutation

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Enhanced expression of Rhizobium etli cbb3 oxidase has a role in the response of common bean nodules to drought Talbi et al.

Non-structural carbohydrate partitioning in grass stems: a target to increase yield stability, stress tolerance and biofuels production Thomas L Slewinski

Foliar pathogenesis and plant water relations – a review Grimmer et al.

Evolution, function, and regulation of genomic imprinting in plant seed development Hua Jiang and Claudia Köhler

Vernalization-mediated chromatin changes Brett R Zografos and Sibum Sung

A critical review of the protracted domestication model for Near-Eastern founder crops: linear regression, long distance gene flow, archaeological and archaeobotanical evidence Heun et al.

Special Issues & Collections 2013

Plant Biomechanics

Improving Photosythesis

Biotic Stress

Evolution of Physiological Processes

The Plant Nuclear Envelope: proteins and their interactions

Roots and Productivity

Techniques for Ecophysiology

Special Issues & Collections 2012

Plant Organellar Signalling– from algae to higher plants

Pathways and Fluxes: analysis of the Plant Metabolic Network

Regulation of Resource Allocation & Growth

Roots & Rhizosphere Processes

GM Crops: from basic research to application

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Current Issue:

The acrylamide problem: a plant and agronomic science issue Halford et al.

The pathway of auxin biosynthesis in plants Mano & Nemoto

TaNAC2, a NAC-type wheat transcription factor conferring enhanced multiple abiotic stress tolerances in Arabidopsis Mao et al.

Increased fructose 16-bisphosphate aldolase in plastids enhances growth and photosynthesis of tobacco plants Uematsu et al.

Two carbon fluxes to reserve starch in potato (Solanum tuberosum> L.) tuber cells are closely interconnected but differently modulated by temperature Fettke et al .

The 14-3-3 proteins of Arabidopsis regulate root growth and chloroplast development as components of the photosensory system Mayfield et al.

Fruit-specific RNAi-mediated suppression of SlNCED1 increases both lycopene and β-carotene contents in tomato fruit Sun et al.

S-nitrosoglutathione is a component of wound- and salicylic acid-induced systemic responses in Arabidopsis thaliana Espunya et al.

HD2C interacts with HDA6 and is involved in ABA and salt stress response in Arabidopsis Luo et al.

Cover Image: Sporophytic ovule tissues modulate the initiation and progression of apomixis in Hieracium Tucker et al.

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SEB @ SALZBURG 2012

The Society for Experimental Biology is pleased to announce that the 2012 Annual Main Meeting will be hosted in the city of Salzburg (Austria). The meeting will take place from the 29th June - 2nd of July 2012.

Topics of the Plant Sessions:

  • Improving photosynthesis
  • Chloroplast biogenesis
  • Evolution of physiological traits in plants
  • Plant hormone signal transduction and the control of agronomic traits
  • Induced resistance against biotic attack
  • The environmental control of development
  • Molecular plant cell dynamics
  • New insights into plant nuclear envelope proteins and their interactions

For more information please go to SEB 2012 Annual Meeting