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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Tomoyuki YAMAYA

Division of Frontier Plant Science, Laboratory of Plant Cell Biology, Innovative Research Center for Agricultural Sciences, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, 1-1 Tsutsumidori-Amamiyamachi Sendai 981-8555, Japan

Area of Expertise

  • Nitrogen assimilation and metabolism
  • Rice
  • Reverse genetic
  • QTL
  • Nitrogen remobilization

EDITORS

Paul M. HASEGAWA

Purdue University
Center for Plant Environmental Stress Psysiology,
1165 Horticulture Building, W. Lafayette IN 47907-1165
USA

Area of Expertise

  • Abiotic stress
  • Water use efficiency
  • Calcium signaling
  • Transcription factors
  • Sumoylation

Makoto HAYASHI

National Institute for Basic Biology, Myodaiji, Okazaki 444-8585, Japan

Area of Expertise

  • Peroxisome
  • Protein storage vacuole
  • Protein transport

Masami Yokota HIRAI

RIKEN Plant Science Center, Metabolomics Research Division, Metabolic Systems Research Team, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan

Area of Expertise

  • Metabolomics
  • Sulfur nutrition
  • Glucosinolate
  • Secondary metabolism

Yue-ie Caroline HSING

Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology Academia Sinica, 128, Section 2, Yien-chu-yuan Road Nankang, Taipei 11529, Taiwan

Area of Expertise

  • Plant functional genomics
  • Seed physiology
  • Bioinformatics
  • Transcriptome analysis

Masahiko IKEUCHI

Department of Life Sciences (Biology), The University of Tokyo, Komaba 3-8-1, Meguro, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan

Area of Expertise

Photobiology

Cyanobacteria

  • Photosynthesis

Masayuki ISHIKAWA

Plant-Microbe Interactions Research Unit, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, 2-1-2, Kan-non-dai, Tsukuba 305-8602, Japan

Area of Expertise

  • Plant-microbe interactions
  • Virus
  • RNA silencing

David (Dave) JACKSON

Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory, Delbruck Laboratory, P.O. Box 100, 1 Bungtown Rd, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA

Area of Expertise

  • Shoot development
  • Shoot apical meristem
  • Inflorescence architecture
  • Plasmodesmata
  • Cell to cell trafficking

Teh-hui KAO

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State),
403 Althouse Laboratory, University Park, PA 16802, USA

Area of Expertise

  • Pollen-pistil interactions
  • Self-incompatibility
  • Ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation
  • F-box proteins

Ilha LEE

National Research Laboratory of Plant Developmental Genetics, School of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-742, Korea

Area of Expertise

  • Flowering

Mitsue MIYAO

Functional Plant Research Unit, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences (NIAS),
Kannondai, Tsukuba 305-8602, Japan

Area of Expertise

  • Photosynthesis
  • CO2 fixation
  • Primary metabolism
  • Nitrogen assimilation
  • Transgenic plants

Miyo TERAO MORITA

Graduate School of Biological Sciences
Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), 8916-5, Takayama, Ikoma, NARA, 630-0192, Japan

Area of Expertise

  • Gravitropism
  • Membrane traffic
  • Tropism

Toshiya MURANAKA

Department of Biotechnology
Graduate School of Engineering
Osaka University,
Yamada-oka 2-1,Suita-shi, Osaka 565-0871
Japan

Area of Expertise

  • Secondary metabolism
  • Metabolic engineering
  • Metabolic diversity
  • Synthetic biology
  • Plant tissue cultures

Yoshiyuki MURATA

Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Tsushima-naka, Kita-ku, Okayama 700-8530, Japan

Area of Expertise

  • Signal transduction
  • Membrane transport

Akira NAGATANI

Kyoto University Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Kitashirakawa, Sakyoku, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan

Area of Expertise

  • Photoreceptors
  • Light Responses
  • Arabidopsis

Marisa S. OTEGUI

Department of Botany, B119 Birge Hall, 430 Lincoln Drive, University of Wisconsin,
Madison, WI 53706-1381, USA

Area of Expertise

  • Plant cell biology
  • Membrane trafficking
  • Imaging
  • Electron microscopy and electron tomography
  • Endosomal trafficking

Hitoshi SAKAKIBARA

RIKEN Plant Science Center, Plant Productivity Systems Research Group, 1-7-22, Suehiro, Tsurumi, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan

Area of Expertise

  • Plant hormones
  • Hormone metabolism
  • Nutritional regulation of plant development
  • Nitrogen signaling

Toshiharu SHIKANAI

Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa, Sakyoku, Kyoto 606-8502 , Japan

Area of Expertise

  • Photosynthesis
  • Chloroplast
  • Cyclic electron transport
  • RNA editing
  • Copper

Matsuo UEMURA

Cryobiofrontier Research Center, Faculty of Agriculture, Iwate University, Morioka 020-8550, Japan

Area of Expertise

  • Freezing and chilling stress
  • Cold acclimation
  • Membrane biology
  • Proteome
  • Membrane dynamics

Andreas P. M. WEBER

Department of Plant Biochemistry, Heinrich-Heine University of Dusseldorf,
Gebäude 26.03, Ebene 01, Universitätsstraße 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany

Area of Expertise

  • Intracellular solute transport
  • Endosymbiosis and evolution of organelles
  • C4 Photosynthesis
  • Photorespiration
  • Genomics and transcriptomics

ADVISORY EDITORIAL BOARD

Mitsuhiro AIDA

Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

Eva BENKOVA

Ghent University, Belgium

Wolfgang BRANDT

Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Germany

Malcolm CAMPBELL

University of Toronto, Canada

Liam DOLAN

University of Oxford, UK

Tomomichi FUJITA

Hokkaido University, Japan

Alain GOOSSENS

Ghent University, Belgium

Markus GREBE

Umeå University, Sweden

Bin HAN

Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Takashi HIRAYAMA

Okayama University, Japan

Stefan HORTENSTEINER

University of Zurich, Switzerland

Patrick HUSSEY

University of Durham, UK

Toshiro ITO

National University of Singapore, Singapore

Masayoshi KAWAGUCHI

National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan

Toshinori KINOSHITA

Nagoya University, Japan

Hiroyuki KOYAMA

Gifu University, Japan

Makoto KUSABA

Hiroshima University, Japan

William J. LUCAS

University of California, Davis, USA

Jun MINAGAWA

National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan

Chikahiro MIYAKE

Kobe University, Japan

Angus MURPHY

Purdue University, USA

Toru NAKAYAMA

Tohoku University, Japan

Yoshitaka NISHIYAMA

Saitama University, Japan

Takeshi OBAYASHI

Tohoku University, Japan

Kyoko OHASHI-ITO

University of Tokyo, Japan

Ken'ichi OGAWA

Research Institute for Biological Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Anne OSBOURN

John Innes Centre, UK

Rowan F. SAGE

University of Toronto, Canada

David E, SALT

Purdue University, USA

Shinichiro SAWA

Kumamoto University, Japan

Tomoo SHIMADA

Kyoto University, Japan

Keiko SUGIMOTO

RIKEN Plant Science Center, Japan

Hideki TAKAHASHI

Tohoku University, Japan

Taku TAKAHASHI

Okayama University, Japan

Kan TANAKA

Chiba University, Japan

Tetsuro TOYODA

RIKEN Plant Science Center, Japan

Masaaki UMEDA

Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

Dolf WEIJERS

Wageningen University, The Netherlands

Kentaro YANO

Meiji University, Japan

Hirofumi YOSHIOKA

Nagoya University, Japan

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