FPB report 2006

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FPB report 2006

• Editor Jennifer Henry
• Production Editor Amanda Ellery
• other players

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Editorial Advisory Committee

• Chair
• Professor Graham Farquhar, RSBS, ANU, Canberra
• Members
• Professor Murray Badger, RSBS, ANU, Canberra
• Dr Christine Beveridge, University of Queensland,
  Brisbane
• Dr Mike Clearwater, HortResearch, Te Puke, New
  Zealand (NZSPS rep)
• Dr Martha Ludwig, University of Western
  Australia, Perth
• Associate Professor Sharon Robinson, University
  of Wollongong
• Dr Linda Tabe, CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra
• Professor Mark Tester, ACPFG, Glen Osmond, South
  Australia
• Professor Steve Tyerman, University of Adelaide
  (ASPS rep)
• Professor Susanne von Caemmerer, RSBS, ANU,
  Canberra
• Dr Peter Waterhouse, CSIRO Plant Industry,
  Canberra
• Associate Professor Ian Woodrow, University of
  Melbourne

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Editorial Board

• Dr Enrico Brugnoli, Istituto per
  lAgroselvicoltura, Porano, Italy
• Dr Manuela Chaves, Instituto Superior de
  Agronomia, Universidade Técnica de Lisbon,
  Portugal
• Professor Maarten Chrispeels, Division of
  Biological Sciences, University of California,
  San Diego, USA
• Professor Grant Cramer, Department of
  Biochemistry, University of Nevada, USA
• Professor Serge Delrot, CNRS, Université de
  Poitiers, France
• Professor Gerald Edwards, School of Biological
  Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman
  WA, USA
• Dr Jaime Flexas, Departamento de Biologia,
  Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
• Professor Christine Foyer, Rothamsted Research,
  Harpenden, UK (representing the FESPB)
• Professor Emeritus Tony Glass, University of
  British Columbia, Canada
• Professor Howard Griffiths, Department of Plant
  Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK
• Associate Professor Vaughan Hurry, Umeå
  University, Sweden
• Professor Brian Jordan, Lincoln University, New
  Zealand
• Professor Susan Lurie, Volcani Institute,
  Agricultural Research Organization, Israel
• Professor Jonathan Lynch, Department of
  Horticulture, Pennsylvania State University, USA
• Professor Makoto Matsuoka, BioScience Centre,
  Nagoya University, Japan
• Professor Helen Nair, Asian Institute of
  Medicine, Science and Technology, Kedah
  Darulaman, Malaysia
• Professor C. Barry Osmond, Australian National
  University, Canberra, Australia
• Professor John Raven, University of Dundee, UK
• Professor Uli Schurr, Jülich Research Centre,
  Germany

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Recent Special Issues

• EcoFizz May 2006 LGG August 2006

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Future Special Issues

• 1) International Symposium in Memory of Vincent
  R. Franceschi
• Plant Cell Structure-Function Relations
• Gerry Edwards, Guest Editor
• April 2007

2) Carbohydrate metabolism (ISPMB
Congress) Alison Smith, Guest Editor June 2007
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Best Paper Award

• 2005 Dr Nick Gould (HortResearch)

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How the Best Paper is selected

• Eligibility the first author must be1. ASPS
  member
• 2. PhD candidate or lt10 years post-PhD
• Nominations are judged by the ASPS Executive

Prizes FPB subscription 250 book voucher
framed reprint
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Previous winner
2004 Dr Megan Lindsay
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Peter Goldacre Award

• 2006 Dr Peter Dodds , CSIRO Plant Industry
• Recognition of haustorially expressed rust AVR
  proteins in flax
• Prizes a 2000 cheque, ASPS medal and a
  certificate
• Associated paper published in FPB, and PDF
  available free on FPB website
• Eligibility see ASPS website
• Nominations judged by the ASPS Executive

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Previous winners

• 1965 Joe Giovanelli 1968 Bob Smillie
• 1970 Roger Slack 1972 Barry Osmond
• 1974 Andrew Smith 1976 John Andrews
• 1977 Ray Rose 1978 T. J. Higgins
• 1979 Brian Loveys 1980 Graham Farquhar
• 1981 Margaret Sedgley 1982 Murray Badger
• 1984 Simon Robinson and Joe Wolfe 1986 Jim
  Burnell
• 1987 Steve Tyerman 1988 Adrienne Hardham
• 1989 Ian Dry 1990 G. I. McFadden
• 1991 John Evans 1992 Bob Furbank
• 1994 Mark Thomas 1995 Jon Lloyd
• 1997 Peter Ryan 1998 Jim Whelan / Adrian
  Clarke
• 1999 Daniel Schachtman 2000 Barry Pogson
• 2001 Christine Beveridge 2002 Spencer Whitney
  
• 2003 Harvey Millar 2004 Steve Swain
• 2005 Yong-Ling Ruan

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New web feature Cited by
A locus for sodium exclusion (Nax1), a trait for
salt tolerance, mapped in durum wheat Megan P.
Lindsay, Evans S. Lagudah, Ray A. Hare and Rana
Munns Functional Plant Biology 31(11) 1105 -
1114 Articles citing this paper 4 articles
found in CrossRefNitrate reductase in durum
wheat seedlings as affected by nitrate nutrition
and salinityCarillo Petronia, Mastrolonardo
Gabriella, Nacca Francesco, Fuggi Amodio
Functional Plant Biology. 2005
32(3). p.209CrossRefImproving salt tolerance
of wheat and barley future prospectsColmer T.
D., Munns R., Flowers T. J. Australian Journal
of Experimental Agriculture. 2005
45(11). p.1425CrossRefSeawater stress
applied at germination affects mitochondrial
function in durum wheat () early
seedlingsFlagella Zina, Trono Daniela, Pompa
Marianna, Di Fonzo Natale, Pastore Donato
Functional Plant Biology. 2006
33(4). p.357CrossRefGenes and salt
tolerance bringing them togetherMunns Rana New
Phytologist. 2005 167(3). p.645CrossRef
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Cited by vs Web of Science
5 additional articles found in Web of
ScienceMunns R, James RA, Lauchli AApproaches
to increasing the salt tolerance of wheat and
other cereals JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 57
(5) 1025-1043 MAR 2006   Cuartero J, Bolarin
MC, Asins MJ, et al.Increasing salt tolerance in
the tomato JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 57
(5) 1045-1058 MAR 2006   Colmer TD, Flowers
TJ, Munns RUse of wild relatives to improve salt
tolerance in wheat JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL
BOTANY 57 (5) 1059-1078 MAR 2006   Yamaguchi
T, Blumwald EDeveloping salt-tolerant crop
plants challenges and opportunities TRENDS IN
PLANT SCIENCE 10 (12) 615-620 DEC 2005
Davenport R, James RA, Zakrisson-Plogander A, et
al.Control of sodium transport in durum
wheat PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 137 (3) 807-818 MAR 2005
Total of 9 citations
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Rapid Communications

• Criteria
• Please include a paragraph in your covering
  letter stating why you believe special
  consideration is warranted (hot topic,
  controversial, citable, wide public appeal etc.)
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• Procedure
• 1-week turnaround for reviewing, can accept in as
  little as 3 weeks
• Production Editor alerts authors to any figure
  revisions required
• Upon acceptance, fast-tracked through production
  into next issue going to print
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Some Recent Rapid Communications
A comment on the quantitative significance of
aerobic methane release by plants Miko U. F.
Kirschbaum, Dan Bruhn, David M. Etheridge, John
R. Evans, Graham D. Farquhar, Roger M. Gifford,
Keryn I. Paul and Anthony J. Winters FPB 33
521-530   Received 8 March , Accepted 28
March, Published 1 June A comment on scaling
methane emissions from vegetation and grazing
ruminants in New Zealand Francis M. Kelliher,
Harry Clark, Zheng Li, Paul C. D.
Newton, Anthony J. Parsons and Gerald Rys FPB
33 613-615Received 13 April , Accepted 16 May,
Published 3 July
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NEWNZSPP Outstanding Physiologist Award

• 2006 Dr Margaret Barbour, Landcare Research,
  Lincoln
• Stable oxygen isotope composition of plant
  tissue a review

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Turnaround times

• 4 weeks from submission to first decision
• 10 weeks from acceptance to publication
• (currently accepting papers for Vol. 33, number
  11, November 2006)
• Another popular feature
• Colour figures on web, BW in print

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2.496
Name change
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