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JXB News and Press Releases

The following JXB articles have attracted press coverage. Click on the links to read the articles and respective press releases.

September 2009



The Flowering Newsletter Review article Evolution of petal identity by Vivian F. Irish has been featured in Discover Magazine and in the New York Times science article Where Did All the Flowers Come From?

VF Irish. Evolution of petal identity. J. Exp. Bot. 2009 60(9):2517-2527; doi:10.1093/jxb/erp159


A first step towards engineering a drug-free Cannabis plant for hemp fiber and oil

MD Marks, L Tian, JP Wenger, SN Omburo, W Soto-Fuentes, J He, DR Gang, GD Weiblen, and RA Dixon Identification of candidate genes affecting 9-tetrahydrocannabinol biosynthesis in Cannabis sativa J. Exp. Bot. 2009 60: 3715-3726; doi:10.1093/jxb/erp210



April 2009


Journal of Experimental Botany named one of the top 100 most influential journals in Biology and Medicine over the last 100 years (see full article at DBIO 100)



March 2008


Hairy Vetch Mulch Activates Genes for Phytonutrients in Tomatoes

A Neelam, T Cassol, RA Mehta, AA Abdul-Baki, AP Sobolev, RK Goyal, JAbbott, AL Segre, AK Handa, and AK Mattoo. A field-grown transgenic tomato line expressing higher levels of polyamines reveals legume cover crop mulch-specific perturbations in fruit phenotype at the levels of metabolite profiles, gene expression, and agronomic characteristics J. Exp. Bot., June 2008; 59: 2337-2346.