Department of Molecular Plant Physiology, Utrecht University, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands (T.-P.N., S.S., L.B.); Wageningen Seed Laboratory, Laboratory of Plant Physiology, Wageningen University (T.-P.N., L.B.), 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands; Biometris-Applied Statistics, Wageningen University and Research Centre (P.K., F.v.E.), 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands; and Centre for Bio...

Balagurova, N., Institute of Biology, Carelian Research Centre RAN, Laboratory of Plant Stress Physiology, Pushkinskaya, 11, Petrozavodsk, 185610 Russia Drozdov, N., Institute of Biology, Carelian Research Centre RAN, Laboratory of Ecological Plant Physiology, Pushkinskaya, 11, Petrozavodsk, 185610 Russia Grabovik, N., Institute of Biology, Carelian Research Centre RAN, Laboratory of Mire Ecosy...

As area of biology concern with measurement of phenomes, the physical and biochemical traits of plants ,phenomics allow to perform pharmaceutical research and it also used in functional genomics and in metabolic engineering. The use of molecular marker and mapping populationsin combination with the array based identification of gene regulation mechanism has led to the accumulation of an unprece...

This year has seen both journals of the American Society of Plant Biologists pass a number of milestones. It has marked Plant Physiology’s 88th anniversary and The Plant Cell’s 25th. It also saw a surge in recognition for both journals in ISI metrics for 2013 that were reported this summer. Indeed, many in the community have noted that the Thomson Reuters Web of Science 5-year impact factor for...

State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China (X.F.Z., Y.S, J.X.W., Y.L., Z.W.W., S.J.Z.); State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China (B.C.Z., Y.H.Z); Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Californi...

A process model of the soil-tree-atmosphere continuum, which treats the plant physiology, eco-physiology and vegetation structures in detail, needs to describe the dynamics of the water flow within this continuum. The concept of a soil-plant-atmosphere continuum (SPAC) (Philip, 1966) was first described by Huber (1924). In such a continuum, the removal of water lowers the water potential in the...