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J.F. Allen, London, UK
E. Blumwald, Davis, USA
G. Coruzzi, New York, USA
J. Dangl, Chapel Hill, USA
C. Dean, Norwich, UK
R.A. Dixon, Ardmore, USA
J. Ehleringer, Salt Lake City, USA
P.K. Endress, Zürich, Switzerland
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R. Hangarter, Bloomington, USA
M. Koornneef, Wageningen, The Netherlands
A. Larkum, Sydney, Australia
O. Leyser, York, UK
C. Martin, Norwich, UK
M. Matsuoka, Nagoya, Japan
M. Matzke, Vienna, Austria
R. Ranjeva, Toulouse, France
J. Sheen, Boston, USA
K. Shinozaki, Tsukuba, Japan
S. Smeekens, Utrecht, The Netherlands
C.N. Stewart Jr, Knoxville, USA
V. Sundaresan, Davis, USA
M. Van Montagu, Ghent, Belgium
Z-h Xu, Beijing, China
M. Yanofsky, La Jolla, USA
Y. Zhu, Beijing, China


Abstracting/Indexing
Bibliography of Agriculture (AGRICOLA)
CAB Abstracts International
Current Contents (Life Science)
Food Science & Technology Abstracts
Index Medicus
Life Sciences Collection
Medline/MEDLANS Online
Reference Update
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Commenced publication 1996
Volume 13
2008, 12 issues
ISSN: 1360-1385

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