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Aims and Scope Environmental and Experimental Botany (EEB) publishes research papers on the physical, chemical, biological, molecular mechanisms and processes involved in the responses of plants to their environment. In addition to research papers, the journal includes review articles. Submission is in agreement with the Editors-in-Chief. The Journal also publishes special issues which are built by invited guest editors and are related to the main themes of EEB. The areas covered by the Journal include: (1) Responses of plants to heavy metals and pollutants (2) Plant/water interactions (salinity, drought, flooding) (3) Responses of plants to radiations ranging from UV-B to infrared (4) Plant/atmosphere relations (ozone, CO2, temperature) (5) Ecophysiology of Northern plants under global change and environmental stress (6) Biotic interactions involving environmental factors. Each submitted manuscript related to these areas should be based on an explicitly elaborated mechanistic hypothesis. The following types of manuscripts are not suitable for EEB: purely descriptive studies, use of unicellular or microorganisms as models, agricultural investigations, phytopathological studies, ecological reports, studies of plant biology without considering environmental factors. Editors-in-Chief J.-C. Kader, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Sorbonne Universités, Paris, France K. Taulavuori, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland Editorial Board J. ABE, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-Ku, Japan R. ANTUNES DE AZEVEDO, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Piracicaba, SP, Brazil C. ARRESE-IGOR, Universidad Pública de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain J. BARCELO, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Bellaterra, Spain J.W. BJERKE, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research- NINA, Tromsö, Norway J.F. BORNMAN, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia F. BUSSOTTI, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze, Italy D. CLOSE, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia J.A.G. DA SILVEIRA, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza-Ceará, Brazil J.F. DAT, Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France T.A. DAY, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA L.J. DE KOK, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands TH.A. DUECK, AB-DLO, Wageningen, Netherlands J. FLEXAS, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma de Mallorca, Spain R. FENG, Institute of Agro-Environmental Protection, TianJin, China J.L. GARCIA-HERNANDEZ, Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas del Noroeste, S.C. (CIBNOR), Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico S.P. HARDEGREE, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), Boise, ID, USA J. HE, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore B. HEUER, Agricultural Research Organization (ARO), Bet Dagan, Israel BINGRU HUANG, Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, Rutgers University, 59 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 M.B. KIRKHAM, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS , USA H-W. KOYRO, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Giessen, Germany F.R. LARHER, Université de Rennes I, Rennes Cedex, France J. LEIPNER, Zürich, Switzerland C. LÜTZ, Botanical Institute, Innsbruck, Austria A. MARKKOLA, Department of Biology, University of Oulu, Finland A. MASSACCI, National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Roma, Italy
A.A. MEHARG, Institute for Global Food Security, Queen’s University Belfast, UK S. MUNNE-BOSCH, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain S.R. PEZESHKI, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA M. PUSCHENREITER, Universitat für Bodenkultur Wien (BOKU), Vienna, Austria L.-J. QU, Peking University, Beijing, China F. RIVAS, National Agricultural Research Institute, Salto, Uruguay E. RUELLAND, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France L. SANITA’ DI TOPPI, Università di Parma, Parma, Italy D. SAVVAS, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece H. SCHAT, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands R. SERRAJ, ICARDA, Aleppo, Syrian Arab Republic S. SHABALA, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia A.K. SHANKER, Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (CRIDA), Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India J.H. SULLIVAN, Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture University of Maryland College Park, USA C. TANG, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia M. TATTINI, National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Firenze, Italy E. TAULAVUORI, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland M. TAUSZ, University of Melbourne, Creswick, VIC, Australia T.J. TSCHAPLINSKI, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA I. TURKAN, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey J.C.V. VU, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA F. WECHSUNG, Potsdam Institut für Klimafolgenforschung, Potsdam, Germany R.R. W ISE , University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh, Oshkosh, WI, USA M. WISNIEWSKI, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), Kearneysville, WV, USA T. YOSHIHARA, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI), Chiba, Japan W.-H. ZHANG, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China Z. ZHI-BIN LUO, Northwest A and F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, China
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