Editorial Board
Chief Editor
Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto
(Website)
Expertise: Plant physiological ecology; photosynthesis, C4 plants, photosynthetic evolution; global change.
Annals of Botany Editorial Office
Department of Plant Sciences
University of Oxford
South Parks Road
Oxford, OX1 3RB, UK
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: +44 (0)1865 275837
Managing Editors
Catherine Hyland, Managing Editor, [email protected]
Kurt Ballstadt, Assistant Managing Editor, [email protected]
Renata Cantoro, Assistant Editor for Social Media, [email protected]
Expertise: agricultural sciences, grain crop plant physiology, trait variation, blight biocontrol.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0357-6246
Sarah Covshoff, Assistant Editor for Outreach, [email protected]
Expertise: C4 biology, plant molecular biology, plant biotechnology, plant synthetic biology.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7942-0312
Senior Editors
Gabriela Auge
Senior Editor for Social Media
[email protected]
Institute of Biosciences, Biotechnology and Translational Biology, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina (webpage)
Expertise: developmental transitions – focusing on germination and flowering responses, environmental conditions, plant responses at molecular, physiological, ecological and evolutionary scales.
Mick Hanley
Senior Editor for Special Issues
[email protected]
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.
Erik Murchie
Senior Editor for Commentaries
[email protected]
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 Petersen
Senior Editor for Reviews
[email protected]
Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University, Sweden (webpage)
Expertise: Plant systematics, phylogenetics, phylogenomics and evolution; molecular evolution; genome and organelle evolution.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2325-0059
Zoë Popper
Associate Editor for Reviews
[email protected]
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
Handling Editors
Lauren Baker
[email protected]
Oxford Botanic Gardens and Arboretum, University of Oxford, UK (website)
Expertise: science education, public engagement with research, science communication, mitigating low plant awareness, global food security, crop improvement, cytogenetics
Susanne Barth
[email protected]
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
[email protected]
School of Life Sciences, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, USA (webpage)
Expertise: plant functional traits, island biology, plant tolerance to biotic and abiotic stress, evolutionary ecology, seedlings, plant ontogeny, climate change, plant conservation
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4549-4150
Johanne Brunet
[email protected]
Brunet Research, USA
Expertise: pollination biology, plant reproductive biology, plant/pollinator interactions, gene flow, hybridization.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4555-7411
Michele Dudash
[email protected]
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
[email protected]
Instituto de Investigación Interdisciplinaria (I3), Universidad de Talca, 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
[email protected]
Accelerated Taxonomy, Integrated Monography, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Royal Botanic Garden Kew, UK (webpage Edinburgh, webpage Kew)
Expertise: systematics and evolution of predominantly African xeric succulent lineages (Aloe and relatives), the value of desert plants in climate change adaptation and resilience, methods of plant identification (DNA sequencing and computer vision)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1431-2761
Jennifer Harikrishna
[email protected]
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
Karolina Heyduk
[email protected]
George Safford Torrey Herbarium, University of Connecticut, US (webpage)
Expertise: photosynthesis, CAM, leaf anatomy, plant physiology, transcriptomics, phylogenomics, phylogenetics, genomics, evolution, hybrid, homoploid
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1429-6397
Olivier Honnay
[email protected]
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
[email protected]
Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Canada (website)
Expertise: marine ecology, climate change, marine biodiversity, conservation biology, kelp forests, oceanographic processes, seagrass, ecosystem services
Martin Lysak
[email protected]
Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic (webpage)
Expertise: Plant genome and karyotype evolution; chromosomes; plant cytogenetics and cytogenomics.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0318-4194
Robert Miller
Editor for South America
[email protected]
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
Muthama Muasya
[email protected]
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, RSA (webpage)
Expertise: Phylogenetics, systematics, Geography and Florstics of Africa
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0763-0780
Zuzana Munzbergova
[email protected]
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.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4026-6220
[email protected]
Institute of Environment and the Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, USA (webpage)
Expertise: ecophysiology, evolution, genome size, cell size, flowers, costs of reproduction
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4423-8729
[email protected]
Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores, Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (webpage)
Expertise: ecology and evolution of pollination and plant reproduction, plant mating systems, plant breeding systems, sexual expression in plants, plant genetics and conservation, plant-animal interactions, conservation biology of tropical systems, forest fragmentation and tropical dry forests.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7776-9286
[email protected]
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University (webpage)
Expertise: Long distance transport, transpiration, assimilation, stomatal conductance, energy balance, xylem, phloem, hydraulic conductivity, cavitation, plant water relations, turgor loss, plant structure and function, plant biomechanics, allometry, poroelasticity, porous media.
Hilary Rogers
[email protected]
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
Jiří Šantrůček
[email protected]
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
Hannah Schneider
[email protected]
Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany (webpage)
Expertise: Root biology; plant physiology; plant adaptation to abiotic stress, especially drought and low soil fertility; functional-structural plant modelling
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4655-6250
Trude Schwarzacher
[email protected]
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
Nick Smirnoff
[email protected]
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
Rachel Spigler
[email protected]
Department of Biology, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA (webpage)
Expertise: Ecology and evolution of plant reproductive systems (mating systems, sexual systems, floral traits), plant-pollinator interactions, evolutionary ecology, habitat fragmentation, inbreeding depression, demography, population genetics.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5997-9781
[email protected]
Plant Functional Genetics and Genomics, University of Groningen, The Netherlands (website)
Expertise: chemical ecology, plant specialized metabolism, terpenoids, abiotic stress, functional genetics, genomics
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7239-6767
[email protected]
Department of Biological Sciences, California State Polytechnic University Humboldt, USA (website)
Expertise: evolution of plant development and morphology, anatomy, fossil record, bryophytes, early tracheophytes, seed-free plants, gymnosperms
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2351-5002
[email protected]
Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Netherlands (webpage)
Expertise: Flowers, pollination, evolution, biophysics, color vision, reproductive systems, asexual reproduction.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0613-7633
Joe Walker
[email protected]
Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Illinois Chicago, USA (webpage)
Expertise: phylogenetics, phylogenomics, genome evolution, transcriptomics, informatics
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2928-8899
Heather Whitney
[email protected]
School of Biological Science, University of Bristol, Bristol UK (webpage)
Expertise: Plant Reproductive Biology, plant-animal interactions, iridescence, nanostructures, floral cues
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6450-8266
[email protected]
State Key Laboratory of Plateau Ecology and Agriculture, Qinghai University, Xining, China (webpage)
Expertise: seed and seedling traits and their ecological consequences, plant diversity, alpine vegetation structure and assembly
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1500-4114
Jinshun Zhong
[email protected]
Guangdong Laboratory for Lingnan Modern Agriculture, School of Life Sciences, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou (webpage)
Expertise: evolution of plant development (with a special focus on cereal grasses and legumes); genetic basis of complex morphological/physiological novelties; the molecular mechanisms of plant resilience to environmental cues; hybridization and polyploidization; yield- crop productivity and local adaptation; plant breeding
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7086-5470
