Editor-in-Chief

• Viktor Žárský (Institute of Experimental Botany of the CAS, Praha, Czech Republic and Faculty of Science, Charles University, Praha, Czech Republic)

Area of expertise: cell biology, cell morphogenesis, molecular mechanisms of plant cell polarity

Executive Editor

• Helena Plchová (Institute of Experimental Botany of the CAS, Praha, Czech Republic)

Area of expertise: plant molecular biology, virology, plant biotechnology, DNA repair

Editorial Board

• Helene Robert Boisivon (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic)

Area of expertise: hormonal crosstalk in plant development, molecular basis for hormonal-environment crosstalk, molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying the regulation of hormonal pathways during seed production

• Leonardo Bruno (Università della Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende, Italy)

Area of expertise: molecular biology, plant physiology

• Lenka Burketová (Institute of Experimental Botany of the CAS, Praha, Czech Republic)

Area of expertise: phytopathological plant physiology, plant – microbe interactions with a special focus on hormonal interplay and phospholipid signalling, molecular mechanisms involved in plant defence

• Ornella Calderini (Institute of Biosciences and Bioresources, Perugia, Italy)

Area of expertise: plant cell cycle and meiosis, plant development and reproduction, signal transduction via MAPK genes related to development and stress responses, plant functional genomics, bioenergy crops, biodiversity, heterosis, molecular biology and biochemistry, cytology

• Fatima Cvrčková (Charles University, Praha, Czech Republic)

Area of expertise: cell mophogenesis, molecular mechanisms of plant cell polarity

• Karel Doležal (Palacky University/Institute of Experimental Botany of the CAS, Olomouc, Czech Republic)

Area of expertise: plant hormones, organic synthesis, structure-activity relationship, analytical chemistry

• Martina Dvořáčková (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic)

Area of expertise: structure, evolution and maintenance of telomeres and their roles in chromosome stability, DNA repair and plant speciation, epigenetic mechanisms in the regulation of gene expression, chromatin assembly, genome stability and telomere homeostasis, transcription, replication and DNA repair in the context of nuclear and nucleolar architecture

• Jaroslav Fulneček (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic)

Area of expertise: telomeres and genome stabilty, regulation of meiosis, role of RNA decay in genome regulation

• Sonia Garcia (Botanical Institute of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain)

Area of expertise: biodiversity and plant evolution, evolutionary biology, genome organisation

• Dana Holá (Charles University, Praha, Czech Republic)

Area of expertise: plant genetics, cell biology, stress physiology, brassinosteroids, drought stress, plant stress memory, primary photosynthetic processes, heterosis

• Klára Hoyerová (Institute of Experimental Botany of the CAS, Praha, Czech Republic)

Area of expertise: hormonal regulations in plants, plant physiology, molecular biology

• Mike Jackson (University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom)

Area of expertise: plant physiology, plant hormones, plant stress biology, senescence

• Martin Janda (University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic)

Area of expertise: molecular plant–microbe interactions, plant immunity

• Tetiana Kalachova (Institute of Experimental Botany of the CAS, Praha, Czech Republic)

Area of expertise: phytopathological plant physiology, plant – microbe interactions with a special focus on hormonal interplay and phospholipid signalling, molecular mechanisms involved in plant defence

• Konstantin V Kiselev (Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Vladivostok, Russia)

Area of expertise: calcium signaling, calcium sensor proteins, plant secondary metabolism, plant gene expression, stilbenes, transgenic plants, plant cell cultures, resveratrol, RNA interference, grapevine

• Tomáš Kocábek (Biology Centre, České Budějovice, Czech Republic)

Area of expertise: plant molecular biology, biotic stresses, transgenesis, transcriptional regulation of gene expression, plant transformation, CRISPR/Cas genome editing

• David Kopecký (Institute of Experimental Botany of the CAS, Olomouc, Czech Republic)

Area of expertise: structure and evolution of plant genomes (especially hybrids and polyploids)

• Klára Kosová (Crop Research Institute, Praha, Czech Republic)

Area of expertise: proteomics, abiotic and biotic stresses in plants, genetics

• Jiban Kumar (Crop Research Institute/Institute of Experimental Botany of the CAS, Praha, Czech Republic)

Area of expertise: plant pathology, plant virus and vector interactions, plant biotechnology, biology, integrated pest management

• Ulrich Lüttge (Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany)

Area of expertise: transport processes in plants, glands of nectaries and carnivorous plants, roots, membrane biophysics and proteins, physiological ecology of plants in the tropics, ecophysiology of photosynthesis. Biological clock of plants and endogenous rhythmicity with non-linear dynamics and spatio-temporal pattern formation of the metabolic cycle of Crassulacean acid metabolism

• Tihana Marček (Faculty of Food Technology Osijek, Osijek, Croatia)

Area of expertise: plant stress biology, plant physiology, seed biology

• Petr Maršík (Institute of Experimental Botany of the CAS, Praha, Czech Republic)

Area of expertise: plant secondary metabolites, nanoparticles, phytoremediation

• Jan Martinec (Institute of Experimental Botany of the CAS, Praha, Czech Republic)

Area of expertise: signal transduction in plants, molecular biology, lipid metabolism, phospholipids

• Stefan Mayr (University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria)

Area of expertise: abiotic and biotic stress effects and responses of mountain plants, plant hydraulics, drought and frost effects, structure-function relationships, ecophysiology

• Fermin Morales (University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain)

Area of expertise: plant physiology, heavy methals

• Ondřej Novák (Palacky University/Institute of Experimental Botany of the CAS, Olomouc, Czech Republic)

Area of expertise: detection, determination and identification of biologically active compounds in plants, development of analytical and purification methods

• Peter Ott (Centre for Agricultural Research, Budapest, Hungary)

Area of expertise: plant pathophysiology, molecular genetics

• Elif Aylin Ozudugru (Istinye University Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkiye)

Area of expertise: in vitro plant propagation, in vitro conservation, cryopreservation, plant molecular biology and gas choromatographic analysis

• Andrzej Pacak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland)

Area of expertise: plant (mainly barley) responses to abiotic stresses (high temperature and phosphate starvation) on transcriptome, small RNAs and degradome levels

• Aleš Pečinka (Institute of Experimental Botany of the CAS, Olomouc, Czech Republic)

Area of expertise: chromatin, epigenetics, DNA damage repair, smc5/6 complex, DNA protein crosslinks, seed development, arabidopsis, barley

• Jana Pospíšilová (Institute of Experimental Botany of the CAS, Praha, Czech Republic)

Area of expertise: plant physiology, photosynthesis

• Sabine Rosner (Institute of Botany, Vienna, Austria)

Area of expertise: forest ecology, general biology, forestry, plant ecology, plant physiology, functional traits in plants

• Thomas Schmülling (Institute of Biology, Berlin, Germany)

Area of expertise: role of the hormone cytokinin in regulating plant growth and development, responses to stress

• Renata Schnablová (Institute of Botany, Praha, Czech Republic)

Area of expertise: plant anatomy, response of plants to various stresses

• Lukas Schreiber (University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany)

Area of expertise: structure, chemical composition, biosynthesis and barrier properties of cutinized (leaves) and suberized (roots) plant interfaces

• Vijay Pratap Singh (University of Allahabad, Allahabad, India)

Area of expertise: plant stress physiology, signaling, phytohormones, plant molecular biology, nanoparticles, heavy metal tolerance in crop plants

• Petr Smýkal (Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic)

Area of expertise: domestication, legumes, seed dormancy and development, pod dehiscence, plant genetics and biotechnology, plant molecular biology

• Marija Viljevac Vuletić (Agricultural Institute Osijek, Osijek, Croatia)

Area of expertise: plant stress physiology, bioactive compounds, photosynthesis

• Yi Zhang (Beijing Normal University, China)

Area of expertise: cell biology, molecular mechanism of plant cell wall biosynthesis, molecular mechanism of plant cell sensing and responding to mechanical stress, upstream signaling pathway of plant cytoskeleton