Editors

EDITOR IN CHIEF
Jutta Ludwig-Müller, PhD, TU Dresden, Germany

ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Hamada AbdElgawad, PhD, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Tariq Aftab, PhD, Aligarh Muslim University, India
Golam Jalal Ahammed, PhD, Henan University of Science and Technology, China
Parvaiz Ahmad, PhD, University of Kashmir, India
Nudrat Aisha Akram, PhD, Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan
Andrzej Bajguz, PhD, University of Białystok, Poland
T. Casey Barickman, PhD, Mississippi State University, United States of America
Nataša Bauer, PhD, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Maja Boczkowska, PhD, Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute - National Research Institute, Poland
Federica Brunoni, PhD, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Bretislav Brzobohaty, PhD, Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Biophysics, Czech Republic
Nicola Busatto, PhD, Fondazione Edmund Mach, Italy
María Mónica Calvo Polanco, PhD, University of Salamanca, Spain
James Campanella, PhD, Montclair State University, United States of America
Francesca Cardinale, PhD, University of Turin, Italy
Amanda Cardoso, PhD, North Carolina State University, United States of America
Bhupendra Chaudhary, PhD, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Puneet Singh Chauhan, PhD, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, India and National Botanical Research Institute, India
Jin-Gui Chen, PhD, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States of America
Qing Chen, PhD, Sichuan Agricultural University, China
Christian Chervin, PhD, National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse, France
Monica Colombo, PhD, Fondazione Edmund Mach, Italy
Fabrizio Costa, PhD, Fondazione Edmund Mach, Italy
Federica Della Rovere, PhD, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Rupesh Deshmukh, PhD, Central University of Haryana, India
Scott Finlayson, PhD, Texas A&M University, United States of America
Kosuke Fukui, PhD, Tokyo University of Science, Japan
Showkat Ahmad Ganie, PhD, Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom
Xiaoqing Gong, PhD, North West Agriculture and Forestry University, China
Ravi Gupta, PhD, Kookmin University, South Korea
Peter Hedden, PhD, Rothamsted Research, United Kingdom
Raúl Herrera Faúndez, PhD, University of Talca, Chile
Alexander Heyl, PhD, Adelphi University, United States of America
Yingpeng Hua, PhD, Zhengzhou University, China
Saddam Hussain, PhD, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan
Mohammad Irfan, PhD, Cornell University, United States of America
Mukesh Jain, PhD, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Charitha A. Jayasinghege, PhD, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada
Songtao Jiu, PhD, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Chetan Keswani, PhD, Southern Federal University, Russia
Abdul Latif Khan, PhD, University of Houston, United States of America
M. Iqbal R. Khan, PhD, Jamia Hamdard, India
Naeem Khan, PhD, University of Florida, United States of America
Setsuko Komatsu, PhD, Fukui University of Technology, Japan
Rahul Kumar, PhD, University of Hyderabad, India
Ravinder Kumar, PhD, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, India and Central Potato Research Institute, India
Vinay Kumar, PhD, Savitribai Phule Pune University, India
Theo Lange, PhD, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
Zhonghai Li, PhD, Beijing Forestry University, China
Antonella Locascio, PhD, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain and Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology of Plants, Spain
José López-Bucio, PhD, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Mexico
Sonja L. Maki, PhD, University of Wisconsin–River Falls, United States of America
Kranthi Mandadi, PhD, Texas A&M University, United States of America
Juan Pablo Martínez Castillo, PhD, Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias, Chile
Axel Mithöfer, PhD, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Germany
Václav Motyka, PhD, Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Experimental Botany, Czech Republic
Muhammad Salman Mubarik, PhD, University of Narowal, Pakistan
Soumya Mukherjee, PhD, University of Kalyani, India
José Miguel Mulet, PhD, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain and Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology of Plants, Spain
Pramod Kumar Nagar, PhD, Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, India
Heather Nonhebel, PhD, University of New England, Australia 
Jana Okleštková, PhD, Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Experimental Botany, Czech Republic and Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Wendy Ann Peer, PhD, University of Maryland, College Park, United States of America
Fabricio José Pereira, PhD, Federal University of Alfenas, Brazil
Jan Petrášek, PhD, Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Experimental Botany, Czech Republic
Carla Pinheiro, PhD, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Ondrej Plihal, PhD, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Stephan Pollmann, PhD, Centre for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics, Spain and Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Péter Poór, PhD, University of Szeged, Hungary
Balakrishnan Prithiviraj, PhD, Dalhousie University, Canada
Weiwei Qi, PhD, Shanghai University, China
Abidur Rahman, PhD, Iwate University, Japan
Shuxin Ren, PhD, Virginia State University, United States of America
Francesca Resentini, PhD, University of Milan, Italy
Ranjit Riar, PhD, California State University, Fresno, United States of America
Thomas Roitsch, PhD, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Branka Salopek Sondi, PhD, Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Croatia
Paloma Sánchez Bel, PhD, Jaume I University, Spain
Birinchi Kumar Sarma, PhD, Banaras Hindu University, India
Anket Sharma, PhD, University of Maryland, College Park, United States of America
Pan Shenggang, PhD, South China Agricultural University, China
Vijay Singh, PhD, University of Allahabad, India
Ashish Kumar Srivastava, PhD, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, India
Wendy Stirk, PhD, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Boon Chin Tan, PhD, University of Malaya, Malaysia
Durgesh Tripathi, PhD, Amity University, India
Minoru Ueda, PhD, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Japan
Mikihisa Umehara, PhD, Toyo University, Japan
Bram Van de Poel, PhD, KU Leuven, Belgium
Serena Varotto, PhD, University of Padua, Italy
Stefaan Werbrouck, PhD, Ghent University, Belgium
Tomas Werner, PhD, University of Graz, Austria
Yingfang Zhu, PhD, Henan University, China
Asta Žukauskaitė, PhD, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic

MANAGING EDITOR
Rhonda Peavy, BSc, Creighton University, United States of America