Plant Biology

Plants support life on Earth, they provide oxygen, food, and shelter to animals, and serve as a source of industrial and medicinal compounds. They are pivotal for the maintenance of ecosystems and establish complex relationships with other organisms.

Plant Biology is a branch of biology that studies all areas related to plants. It is extremely interdisciplinary, ranging from physiology and molecular genetics to ecology and evolution. Significantly, it has contributed to many important scientific advances, such as the discovery of the rules of genetic inheritance, the transposition of genetic elements, and the role of light regulating physiological responses, among others.

The aim of this collection is to gather research on the latest advances in disciplines that use plants as model organisms, from understanding their functional physiology at the genetic and molecular level, to exploring their use to study general biological questions applied to other organisms.

Potential topics include but are not limited to:

• Plant physiology
• Plant genetics and development
• Plant omics (including genomics and gene editing, transcriptomics, proteomics)
• Plant immunity 
• Plant biotechnology
• Plant cell biology
• Plant anatomy
• Plant pathology
• Plant systematics

Collection advisors: Crisanto Gutiérrez (Spanish National Research Council, Spain), Claude Becker (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany)