FPB report

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FPB report

• Editor Jennifer Henry
• Acting Editor Amanda Ellery (Nov. 06-Apr. 07)
• ComBio, 25 September, 2007

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Editorial Advisory Committee

• Graham Farquhar, ANU (Chair)
• Murray Badger, ANU
• Christine Beveridge, University of Queensland
• Mike Clearwater, HortResearch, Te Puke (NZSPBS
  rep)
• David Day, University of Sydney (ASPS rep)
• Martha Ludwig, University of Western Australia
• Jim Reid, University of Tasmania
• Sharon Robinson, University of Wollongong
• Linda Tabe, CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra
• Mark Tester, ACPFG, Adelaide
• Steve Tyerman, University of Adelaide
• Susanne von Caemmerer, ANU
• Peter Waterhouse, CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra
• Ian Woodrow, University of Melbourne

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Editorial Board

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

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A new journal model
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Recent Special Issues

• FPB 34-4 (April 2007)
• International Symposium in memory of Vince
  Franceschi
• Guest Editor Gerry Edwards

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Recent Special Issues

• FPB 34-6 (June 2007 )
• Carbohydrate Metabolism
• Guest Editor Alison Smith

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Future Special Issues

• 1) EcoFizz 2007 (ComBio satellite)
• Guest Editors Oula Ghannoum, David Ellsworth and
  David Tissue
• Due out March 2008

2) FSPM07 (New Zealand) Guest Editors Przemyslaw
Prusinkiewicz and Jim Hanan Due out May 2008
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ASPS-FPB Best Paper Award

• 2006 winner Rebecca Miller,
• University of Melbourne

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How the Best Paper is selected

• Eligibility
• The first author must be
• ASPS member
• PhD candidate or lt10 years post-PhD
• Nominations are judged by the ASPS Executive
• Prizes
• FPB subscription
• 250 book voucher
• A framed reprint

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Previous ASPS-FPB Best Paper Award winners
2004 Megan Lindsay A locus for sodium exclusion
(Nax1), a trait for salt tolerance, mapped in
durum wheat Megan Lindsay, Evans Lagudah, Ray
Hare and Rana Munns FPB 32 1105-1114 2005 Nick
Gould Phloem hydrostatic pressure relates to
solute loading rate a test of the Münch
hypothesis Nick Gould, Michael Thorpe, Olga
Koroleva and Peter Minchin FPB 33
1019-1026
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Peter Goldacre Award

• 2007 winner Ulrike Mathesius, ANU
• 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

Review Auxin - at the root of symbiotic nodule
development?
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Previous Goldacre Award 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 2006 Peter Dodds

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The last two Goldacre Award winners

• 2005 Yong-Ling Ruan 2006 Peter Dodds

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NZSPB Roger Slack Award

• (previously the NZSPB Outstanding Physiologist
  Award)
• 2007 Kevin Gould, University of Otago

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Previous winner

• 2006 Margaret Barbour
• Stable oxygen isotope composition of plant
  tissue
• FPB 34 83-94

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Recent promotions

• ASPB meeting Chicago, July 2007

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Other features

• Freely accessible content trial period
• For the months of August, September and October,
  all FPB papers from 2005 to 2007 are freely
  available online
• Turnaround time
• 4 weeks from submission to first decision
• 6 weeks from acceptance to publication
• (currently accepting for Vol. 34, number 11,
  November 2007)
• Open Access option
• Author fee US2500 (AU3000 GST incl.)

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