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Front cover of a postcard to advertise a special issue of the Journal of Experimental Botany titled "Wheat". The issue will be edited by Rajeev Varshney, Reyazul Rouf Mir, Matthew Reynolds & Nicol Pecchioni. The image shows different Physiological and Agromonic traits of wheat crop including ROS scavenging, photosynthesis, regulation of nitrogen use efficiency (NUE), canopy temperature depression, root system architecture (RSA), Plant height (PH), flowering, growth stages and seed colour patterns. (Images courtesy of Reyazul Rouf Mir)

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Guest editors: Rajeev Varshney, Reyazul Rouf Mir, Matthew Reynolds & Nicola Pecchioni

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Front cover of a postcard to advertise a special issue of the Journal of Experimental Botany titled "The Role of Plant Lipid Research in a Sustainable World". The issue will be edited by Aruna Kilaru, Doug Allen, Marna Yandeau-Nelson and Yuki Nakamura. The images show the accumulation of lipid droplets (orange dots) in leaves with the background presence of chloroplasts (green objects) (courtesy of DK Allen, H Berg and the Advanced Bioimaging Laboratory, ABL, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and USDA-ARS). Additioanl images show a cross-section of the root of Typha spp. (Cattails) adapted to wetland ecosystem, showing a multi-layered suberized exodermis, that is atypical for monocot plants (courtesy of S Kambhampati, L Andrade, J Noel, Salk Institute for Biological Studies).

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𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑹𝒐𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝑳𝒊𝒑𝒊𝒅 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉 𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝑺𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅

Editors: Aruna Kilaru, Doug Allen, Marna Yandeau-Nelson & Yuki Nakamura

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Front cover of a special issue of the Journal of Experimental Botany titled "Seed Biology: The Birth of Plant Life". The issue is edited by Zsuzsanna Kolbert and Christophe Bailly. The image shows germinating seeds (credit: Juliette Puyaubert & Victoria Gomez, Sorbonne University).

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Guest editors: Zsuzsanna Kolbert & Christophe Bailly

Deadline: 28th February 2025

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Front cover of a postcard to promote a special issue of the Journal of Experimental Botany titeld "Advances in Plant Cell Biology". The guest editors are Zachary Nimchuk, Federica Brandizzi, Gloria Muday & Anna Stepanova. A description of the images: (Left) Anthony Postiglione and Gloria Muday (reproduced from Postiglione AE, Muday GK. 2023. Abscisic acid increases hydrogen peroxide in mitochondria to facilitate stomatal closure. Plant Physiology 192, 469–487). (Above) Brandon C. Reagan and Federica Brandizzi, MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.

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Guest editors: Zachary Nimchuk, Federica Brandizzi, Gloria Muday & Anna Stepanova

Deadline: 28th February '25

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Front cover of a postcard advertising a special issue of the Journal of Experimental Botany titled 'Plant Proteases'. Proteases, represented here by the Pac-Man symbol, do not only shape the leaf, but rather are involved in virtually all aspects of plant development, including the interaction of plants with their biotic and abiotic environment. (Picture credit: Renier van der Hoorn).

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Guest editors: Pitter Huesgen, Annick Stintzi & Andreas Schaler

Deadline: 15th December '24

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Front cover of a postcard advertising a special issue of the Journal of Experimental Botany titled "Lipid function in the plant environment". The image shows the expression pattern of non-specific phospholipase C6 through developmental stages of flowers (blue color, histochemical staining of NPC6 fused with GUS reporter) and in pollens of an anther (middle image: green color, NPC6-Ven; red, auto-fluorescence) in Arabidopsis. Artwork courtesy of Anh H Ngo.

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𝐋𝐢𝐩𝐢𝐝 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐞𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭

Guest editors: Kenji Matsui, Juliette Jouhet, Koichi Kobayashi & Yuki Nakamura

Deadline: 31st December '25

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