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Joseph Kieber, Senior Editor

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Areas of expertise Phyothormones, cytokinin, ethylene, auxin, cell wall, receptor-like kinases, genetics. Joseph Kieber holds a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a Professor of Biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His group uses the model plants Arabidopsis…

Jean Greenberg, Senior Editor

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Areas of expertise Disease resistance, cell death, plant pathogens. Jean Greenberg is a Professor in the Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology Dept. University of Chicago, Committee on Genetics, Genomics and Systems Biology, and Committee on Microbiology. Her work examines both sides of the plant-pathogen…

Nancy Eckardt, Senior Editor

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Areas of expertise Large-scale biology, plant molecular biology and physiology, photosynthetic carbon reduction, plant stress responses. Nan completed her PhD in the Plant Physiology program at Penn State University in 1993. She carried out postdoctoral research in photosynthesis, focusing on Rubisco…

Pascal Genschik, Senior Editor

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Areas of expertise ubiquitination, CULLIN-ring ligases, autophagy, cell cycle, DNA repair, epigenetic regulation, phytohormones, RNA silencing. Pascal Genschik holds a PhD and a Habilitation from the University of Strasbourg, France. Since 1997, he has been a group leader at the Institute of Molecular…

Update: Stomatal function across temporal and spatial scales: deep-time trends, land-atmosphere coupling and global models

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By Peter J Franks, Joseph A Berry, Danica L. Lombardozzi, and Gordon B Bonan The colonization of land by plants and their interaction with biogeochemical and atmospheric processes transformed continental climate and hydrology. Stomata, which evolved to optimize the biological economics of plant carbon…