Recognizing Plant Direct first authors: Bhuvan Pathak
Bhuvan Pathak, co-first author of Heat-shock inducible CRISPR/Cas9 system generates heritable mutations in rice
Current Position: Senior Graduate Assistant
Education: PhD candidate, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA; MS Agronomy (2010) University of Florida, Gainesville; MS in Biotechnology…
Recognizing Plant Direct first authors: Soumen Nandy
Soumen Nandy, co-first author of Heat-shock inducible CRISPR/Cas9 system generates heritable mutations in rice
Current Position: Program Associate
Education: PhD, Department Of Botany, University Of Delhi, India
Non-scientific Interests: Reading, Music, Gardening and avid listener of NPR radio
Brief…
Recognizing Plant Direct first authors: Sumio Iwai
Sumio Iwai, first author of Guard cell photosynthesis is crucial in abscisic acid-induced stomatal closure
Current Position: Professor Emeritus, Kagoshima University, Japan
Education: Ph.D. in Plant Nutrition, Agricultural Chemistry, Kyusyu University, Japan
Non-scientific Interests: Baseball,…
Recognizing Plant Direct first authors: Anna Katherine Block
Anna Katherine Block, first author of Specialized naphthoquinones present in Impatiens glandulifera extra-floral nectaries inhibit the growth of fungal nectar microbes
Current Position: Research Molecular Biologist, Chemistry Research Unit at the Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology…
The Plant Direct Associate Reviewer Board
By Ivan Baxter
At Plant Direct, we take our role as a society journal seriously. So seriously, in fact, that we belong to two societies: the American Society of Plant Biologists and the Society for Experimental Biology. Part of our commitment is to publish the work of our community members without…
The scope of Plant Direct
By Ivan Baxter
Plant Direct is now fully up and running and accepting manuscripts and publishing papers. We are very excited to see the great science that has been submitted. But many have asked me what our statement “We seek to be the sound science plant journal for the community of ASPB…
Plant Direct: ORCID and Preprint Policies
ORCID policy
To represent our support of a global identifier and standardization in academic publishing, we require that all authors include a valid ORCID ID and email address during the submission process. Peer review of manuscripts will not commence until this information has been provided for all…
Introducing Plant Direct
By Ivan Baxter First published: 28 June 2017
https://doi.org/10.1002/pld3.1
As the Editor‐in‐Chief, I am excited to introduce Plant Direct, a new journal from Wiley and the societies behind Plant Physiology, The Plant Journal, and The Plant Cell. While there is a crowded landscape…
Plant Direct: Aims and Scope
Plant Direct is a monthly, sound science journal for the plant sciences that gives prompt and equal consideration to papers reporting work dealing with a variety of subjects. Topics include but are not limited to genetics, biochemistry, development, cell biology, biotic stress, abiotic stress, genomics,…