It's all GO for plant scientists.

The plant cell reviews aspects of photobiology: it's a matter of stop 'n go.

Science and Scientists

You might know the address of IJPR editorial office; it's in Vali-e-Asr Street just about two kilometers from Vanak square. Vali-e-Asr is one of the longest main streets in Tehran. Tehran is one of the biggest capitals in the world with a population of more than 14 million. The earth is home to more than six billion human beings with huge diverse ethnic backgrounds. Starting from the IJPR offic...

Ginkgo still on the go Ginkgo: The Tree that Time Forgot, Peter Crane, (Yale University Press, New Haven and London; 2013), ISBN: 978-0-300-18751-9

I also continue to be impressed by many of the great German plant physiologists from the end of the nineteenth century and would recommend plant scientists to consult their work. Although I am unable to read the original papers, their work is available in translation through their truly magisterial textbooks: Haberlandt (Physiological Plant Anatomy), Pfeffer (The Physiology of Plants) and Sachs...

Whale song

was revived with the emergence of cognitive ethology. And the cycle of excess is being repeated, I think. All animals are proving to be really, really clever, and, more remarkably, in very human-like ways. Hmmm. That's not a very interesting kind of evolution. And I wonder if a lot of the results we're getting don't have more to do with the way we're conceptualizing the problems we put to anima...

Computational and modelling power of P systems

Acknowledgments I am very grateful to all the people I had the privilege to work with, in par-Above all, I would like to thank my advisor Giancarlo Mauri, for his constant interest, encouragement and help. It is a pleasure to take this occasion to thank all the scientists I have met and been in contact with. In particular, my warmest thanks and indebtedness go to Erzsébet Csuhaj–Varjú and Mario...