Annals of Botany is an international plant science journal publishing novel and rigorous research in all areas of plant science. It is published monthly in both electronic and printed forms with at least two extra issues each year that focus on a particular theme in plant biology. The Journal is managed by the Annals of Botany Company, a not-for-profit educational charity established to promote plant science worldwide.
The Journal publishes original research papers, invited and submitted review articles, 'Research in Context' expanding on original work, 'Botanical Briefings' as short overviews of important topics, and 'Viewpoints' giving opinions. All papers in each issue are summarized briefly in Content Snapshots , there are topical news items in the Plant Cuttings section and Book Reviews . A rigorous review process ensures that readers are exposed to genuine and novel advances across a wide spectrum of botanical knowledge. All papers aim to advance knowledge and make a difference to our understanding of plant science.

The Annals of Botany Company is a Limited Company registered in England No. 78001 at University of Exeter, Innovation Centre, Rennes Drive, Exeter EX4 4RN, UK, and is also a Registered Charity, No. 237771.

Chief Editor
Pat Heslop-Harrison

Pat Heslop-Harrison
Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester, UK (webpage)

Expertise: Molecular cytogenetics, genomics, genome evolution, chromosomes, hybrids and polyploids; plant genetics and reproduction; crops, domestication, breeding, biodiversity and genetic resources, agriculture and food security.
 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3105-2167

Managing Editor
Catherine Hyland
Managing Editor
Annals of Botany Editorial Office
Department of Plant Sciences
University of Oxford
South Parks Road
Oxford, OX1 3RB, UK
Email: office@annbot.com
Telephone: +44 (0)1865 275837

Trude Schwarzacher
office@annbot.com
Special Duties Editor

Stephanie Sacharov
annbot.editorialoffice@oup.com
Deputy Managing Editor
For technical queries regarding submissions or refereeing.

Botany One Editors
Salt

Dr Alun Salt
webmaster@botany.one
(webpage)
 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1261-4283

 


Osteriedder

Dr Anne Osterrieder
editor@botany.one
(webpage)

 

Editors
Tim Colmer

Tim Colmer
timothy.colmer@uwa.edu.au
(Editor for Australasia)
School of Plant Biology, University of Western Australia (webpage)

Expertise: Abiotic stress tolerance, especially salinity, waterlogging and submergence; aerenchyma and oxygen transport; anaerobic metabolism; tissue ion regulation; plant water relations; halophytes.
 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3383-9596

Jeffrey Karron

Jeffrey Karron
karron@uwm.edu
(Editor for North America)
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA (webpage)

Expertise: Ecology and evolution of plant-pollinator interactions; evolution of plant mating systems.
 

Shao Jian Zheng

Shao Jian Zheng
sjzheng@zju.edu.cn
(Editor for China)
College of Life Sciences Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China (webpage)

Expertise: Plant nutrition, physiological and molecular mechanisms of plants in response to abiotic stresses.

Trude Schwarzacher

Trude Schwarzacher
ts32@le.ac.uk
(Reviews Editor and Special Duties Editor)
Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester, UK (webpage)

Expertise: Chromosome organisation and dynamics, meiosis, karyotype evolution, hybrids and polyploids, crop breeding, DNA sequence analysis, repetitive DNA sequences, genetic diversity.
 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8310-5489

Nigel Chaffey

Nigel Chaffey
n.chaffey@bathspa.ac.uk
Freelance Botanical Educator, Somerset UK

Expertise: Plant anatomy, plant structure-and-function, plant cell biology, plants-and-people.
 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4231-9082

Karine Alix

Karine Alix
alix@moulon.inra.fr
Quantitative Genetics and Evolution, AgroParisTech, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Expertise: Plant genetics and genomics; interspecific hybridization and polyploidy; genome evolution and plant adaptation; dynamics of transposable elements; small non-coding RNA pathways in evolutionary genetics.
 

John Barnett

John Barnett
j.r.barnett@reading.ac.uk
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Reading, UK

Expertise: Plant anatomy, structure and development, plant physiology, plant cell ultrastructure and differentiation, plant cell wall formation and structure, ecology, tree biology and forests.
 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1851-4929

Susanne Barth

Susanne Barth
susanne.barth@teagasc.ie
Teagasc Crops, Environment and Land Use Programme, Carlow, Ireland (webpage)

Expertise: Plant breeding, genetic diversity, abiotic stress, agronomy, self-incompatibility, crops, grasses.
 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4104-5964

Anne Brysting

Anne Brysting
a.k.brysting@bio.uio.no
Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Norway (webpage)

Expertise: Polyploidy and reticulate evolution; plant systematics and phylogenetics; phylogeography.


Elena Conti

Elena Conti
Elena.Conti@systbot.uzh.ch
Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany and Botanic Garden, University of Zurich (webpage)

Expertise: Evolution of plant diversity; phylogenetics; biogeography; phylogeography; plant reproduction; heterostyly; hybridisation; introgression; reproductive barriers; integration of genomic and ecological data.

Asaph Cousins

Asaph Cousins
acousins@wsu.edu
School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, USA (webpage)

Expertise: Environmental effects on plant energy metabolism, leaf CO2 isotope exchange and C4 photosynthesis.


Ted DeJong

Ted DeJong
tmdejong@ucdavis.edu
Department of Plant Sciences, UC Davis, California, USA (webpage)

Expertise: Environmental plant physiology; photosynthetic efficiency of tree crops relative to the utilization of nitrogen, water, and solar radiation; functional-structural plant modelling.

Michele Dubash

Michele Dudash
Michele.Dudash@SDstate.edu
Department of Natural Resource Management, South Dakota State University, USA (webpage)

Expertise: Population biology; ecology and evolution of reproductive systems in nature; plant-pollinator interactions; conservation genetics.
 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8634-3527

Alex Fajardo

Alex Fajardo
alex.fajardo@ciep.cl
Research Centre of Patagonian Ecosystems, Coyhaique, Chile (webpage)

Expertise: Forest ecology, treeline dynamics and global warming, trait-based approach for plant ecology, community structure and species coexistence, positive biotic interactions, Southern Andes plants, plant scaling and tree invasion.
 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2202-6207


Barbara GravendeelBarbara Gravendeel
barbara.gravendeel@naturalis.nl
Biodiversity, University of Applied Sciences, Leiden, The Netherlands (webpage)

Expertise: Evolutionary aspects of plant morphology; interactions with symbionts, phylogenetics, genomics, metabarcoding and museomics including study of the influence of ancient environmental changes and adaptation to human induced activities.


Mick HanleyMick Hanley
mehanley@plymouth.ac.uk
School of Biological Sciences, University of Plymouth, UK (webpage)

Expertise: Plant–animal interactions (specifically herbivory and pollination ecology), plant defense, fire ecology, global change biology, seed and seedling biology/ecophysiology.

Jennifer Harikrisha

Jennifer Harikrishna
jennihari@um.edu.my
Centre for Research in Biotechnology for Agriculture, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (webpage)

Expertise: Plant molecular biology and genetics with focus on biotic and abiotic stress, epigenetics and transcriptomics; plant biotechnology; plant biosafety and biosecurity.
 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4687-709X


Olivier HonnayOlivier Honnay
olivier.honnay@bio.kuleuven.be
Laboratory for Forest, Nature and Landscape Research, University of Leuven, Belgium (webpage)

Expertise: plant conservation and ecology, effects of anthropogenic disturbances such as eutrophication, forest management and habitat fragmentation on plant species diversity, plant demography and plant population genetic and genomic diversity.
 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4287-8511

Don Levin

Don Levin
dlevin@austin.utexas.edu
Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Austin, USA (webpage)

Expertise: Flowering plant microevolution including evolutionary processes, chromosomal repatterning, and polyploidy; population differentiation, and speciation; hybridization; flowering plant breeding systems (sexual); pollination and dispersal ecology.

Chuanyou Li

Chuanyou Li
cyli@genetics.ac.cn
Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China (webpage)

Expertise: Hormone biology; molecular mechanism of jasmonate actions; plant-insect interaction.

Jonathan Lynch

Jonathan Lynch
jpl4@psu.edu
Department of Plant Science, Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences, Pennsylvania, USA (webpage)

Expertise: Adaptation of plants to drought and low soil fertility; mineral nutrition; root biology; functional-structural plant modelling.

Martin Lysak

Martin Lysak
lysak@sci.muni.cz
Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic (webpage)

Expertise: Plant genome and karyotype evolution; chromosomes; plant cytogenetics and cytogenomics.
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Robert Miller

Robert Miller
robertmiller@unb.br
Department of Cell Biology, University of Brasilia, Brazil (webpage)

Expertise: Plant-microbe interactions; plant disease resistance and defence responses; functional genomics.
 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5798-4552

Zuzana Munzbergova

Zuzana Munzbergova
zuzmun@natur.cuni.cz
Department of Botany, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic (webpage)

Expertise: Plant population dynamics; Plant-herbivore interactions; Plant interactions with soil biota; Ecology of polyploids; Species landscape dynamics; Conservation biology.

Erik Murchie

Erik Murchie
erik.murchie@nottingham.ac.uk
University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonnington, UK (webpage)

Expertise: Physiological and metabolic aspects of photosynthesis, environment interactions especially acclimation to light. Abiotic stress especially photoprotection and photoinhibition at biochemical, leaf and canopy levels.
 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7465-845X

Gitte Peterson

Gitte Petersen
gitte.petersen@su.se
Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University, Sweden (webpage)

Expertise: Plant systematics, phylogenetics, phylogenomics and evolution; molecular evolution; genome and organelle evolution.

Zo� Popper

Zoë Popper
zoe.popper@nuigalway.ie
Botany and Plant Science, NUI Galway, Ireland (webpage)

Expertise: Plant and algal cell wall; polysaccharides, localisation, structure and evolution.
 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8048-7351

Silvia Pressel

Silvia Pressel
s.pressel@nhm.ac.uk
Natural History Museum, London, UK (webpage)

Expertise: cell biology, development, physiology, ecology, conservation, and evolution of lower land plants (bryophytes and pteridophytes), desiccation biology, ontogeny and function of stomata and fungal associations.

Hilary Rogers

Hilary Rogers
rogershj@cf.ac.uk
School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, UK (webpage)

Expertise: gene expression during plant stress and senescence and cell death, ornamental and fresh fruit and vegetable species, molecular and volatile analysis, wood decay, fungi and endophytes.
 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3830-5857

Ji?� �antr??ek

Jiří Šantrůček
jsan@umbr.cas.cz
Department of Plant Experimental Biology, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic (webpage)

Expertise: plant physiology,development of stomata, control of leaf-atmosphere gas exchange, functional and structural aspects of leaf cuticle and fractionation of stable isotopes in photosynthesis.
 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0430-5795

Bill Shipley

Bill Shipley
bill.shipley@usherbrooke.ca
Department of Biology, University of Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada (webpage)

Expertise: physiological plant and functional ecology and community assembly, statistical methods related to trait-based ecology; specifically, structural equations modelling and maximum entropy methods.
 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7026-3880

Nick Smirnoff

Nick Smirnoff
n.smirnoff@exeter.ac.uk
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Exeter, UK (webpage)

Expertise: plant and algal metabolism; function of antioxidants and reactive oxygen species; biochemical and physiological aspects of plant responses to abiotic stress.
 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5630-5602

Philip J. White

Philip J. White
philip.white@hutton.ac.uk
The James Hutton Institute, Dundee, UK ( webpage)

Expertise: crop mineral biofortification, crop production, fertiliser use efficiency, ionomics, plant mineral nutrition, plant nutritional genomics, plant physiology, solute transport, root biology.
 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0827-288X