EDITOR IN CHIEF (2016)
Harold L. Drake
University of Bayreuth
EDITORS
Axel A. Brakhage, Editor (2016) HKI and University of Jena
Michael G. Bramucci, Editor (2016) DuPont Experimental Station
Daniel Cullen, Editor (2017) USDA Forest Products Laboratory
Heidi Goodrich-Blair, Editor (2017) University of Wisconsin—Madison
Lone Gram, Editor (2016) Technical University of Denmark
Mansel W. Griffiths, Editor (2015) University of Guelph
Robert M. Kelly, Editor (2017) North Carolina State University
Maia Kivisaar, Editor (2017) Tartu University
Joel E. Kostka, Editor (2016) Georgia Institute of Technology
Shuang-Jiang Liu, Editor (2016) Chinese Academy of Sciences
Frank E. Löffler, Editor (2013) University of Tennessee
Charles R. Lovell, Editor (2015) University of South Carolina
George T. Macfarlane, Editor (2016) University of Dundee
Volker Müller, Minireview Editor (2014) Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
Rebecca E. Parales, Editor (2016) University of California—Davis
Matthew R. Parsek, Cover Editor (2014) University of Washington
M. Julia Pettinari, Editor (2016) University of Buenos Aires
Donald W. Schaffner, Editor (2015) Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Janet L. Schottel, Editor (2013) University of Minnesota
Alfred M. Spormann, Editor (2016) Stanford University
Gerrit Voordouw, Editor (2017) University of Calgary
K. Eric Wommack, Editor (2017) University of Delaware
Thomas K. Wood, Minireview Editor (2017) Pennsylvania State University
Marylynn V. Yates, Editor (2014) University of California—Riverside
Jizhong Zhou, Editor (2013) University of Oklahoma
Thomas E. Shenk, Chairman, Publications Board
Barbara M. Goldman, Director, Journals
Barbara S. Slinker, Production Editor
Stephanie L. D'Agostino, Assistant Production Editor
Michael E. Lerman, Assistant Production Editor
EDITORIAL BOARD
Adly Abd-Alla (2015)
Luis A. Actis (2014)
Gladys Alexandre (2015)
Kevin Allen (2015)
Eric Altermann (2015)
Rustam Aminov (2013)
Gary Andersen (2013)
Matthew Arduino (2013)
Arthur Aronson (2015)
Shota Atsumi (2015)
Brian Austin (2013)
Beate Averhoff (2013)
Abdu Azad (2013)
Andrea Azcarate-Peril (2015)
Reha Azizoglu (2015)
Charles Bacon (2015)
Michael Bagdasarian (2015)
Alan Bakalinsky (2013)
Petr Baldrian (2013)
Jeffrey Banas (2015)
Ravi Barabote (2015)
József Baranyi (2013)
Florian Bauer (2015)
Gwyn A. Beattie (2014)
Teresa Bergholz (2015)
Stefan Bertilsson (2015)
Thomas Besser (2013)
Arvind A. Bhagwat (2015)
Valeria Bianciotto (2015)
Linda Bisson (2013)
K. Johanna Bjorkroth (2013)
Christopher Blackwood (2013)
Rafael Blasco (2013)
Melanie Blokesch (2013)
Paul Bodelier (2015)
Eckhard Boles (2015)
Matthias Boll (2015)
Daniel Bond (2015)
Violaine Bonnefoy (2013)
Robert Bonomo (2013)
Kathryn J. Boor (2013)
James Borneman (2014)
Albert Bosch (2015)
Peter Bottomley (2015)
Kostas Bourtzis (2015)
Byron Brehm-Stecher (2013)
Frederick Breidt, Jr. (2013)
Harry Brumer (2014)
Alison Buchan (2014)
Robert Buchanan (2015)
Daniel H. Buckley (2014)
William Burkhardt (2015)
H. J. Busscher (2013)
Douglas R. Call (2013)
Amy Callaghan (2015)
Terri A. Camesano (2015)
Isaac Cann (2015)
Michelle Carter (2015)
Shane Ceraul (2015)
Woo-Suk Chang (2015)
Jinru Chen (2014)
Shicheng Chen (2014)
Wilfred Chen (2015)
Yi Chen (2014)
Yuhuan Chen (2015)
Michael L. Chikindas (2013)
Ludmila Chistoserdova (2015)
Kuang-Ren Chung (2014)
Jeffrey D. Cirillo (2014)
Luca Cocolin (2013)
Michael T. Collins (2013)
Doug Cossar (2015)
Don Cowan (2015)
Patricia Cruz (2013)
Holger Daims (2015)
Rolf Daniel (2015)
Steven L. Daniel (2014)
Michelle Danyluk (2013)
Atin R. Datta (2013)
Svetlana Dedysh (2015)
Zixin Deng (2013)
Angelo DePaola, Jr. (2015)
Mickaël Desvaux (2015)
Ronald P. de Vries (2014)
Thomas DiChristina (2015)
Francisco Diez-Gonzalez (2013)
Alan DiSpirito (2014)
Jan Dolfing (2015)
James Dooley (2015)
Irina Druzhinina (2015)
Doris d'Souza (2014)
Nicole Dubilier (2013)
Edward Dudley (2015)
Siobain Duffy (2013)
Jonathan Dworkin (2014)
Daniel C. Eastwood (2014)
Leo Eberl (2014)
Elizabeth Edwards (2013)
Henry Ehrlich (2015)
Patrick Eichenberger (2015)
Christopher Elkins (2014)
Marie Elliot (2014)
Mostafa Elshahed (2015)
David Emerson (2015)
K.-D. Entian (2013)
Slava Epstein (2013)
Danilo Ercolini (2015)
Joseph O. Falkinham III (2013)
Seamus Fanning (2015)
Matthew W. Fields (2014)
Martin Filion (2015)
Steven E. Finkel (2013)
Steven Foley (2014)
Philipp Franken (2015)
Herbert L. Fredrickson (2013)
Michael Friedrich (2015)
Cormac Gahan (2015)
Rebecca Gast (2014)
Beilei Ge (2013)
Elke Genersch (2015)
Terry Joe Gentry (2014)
Johannes Gescher (2015)
Emanuel Goldman (2013)
Mark Gomelsky (2014)
Ramon Gonzalez (2013)
Lawrence Goodridge (2015)
Lisa Gorski (2015)
Joerg Graf (2014)
Jeffrey Gralnick (2015)
Irene R. Grant (2013)
Stefan J. Green (2014)
Leslie Gregg-Jolly (2014)
Richard Gregory (2015)
Jean Guard (2013)
Jan Haerter (2015)
Thomas Hanson (2015)
Eiji Haramoto (2015)
Hauke Harms (2013)
Steven Harris (2014)
Valerie J. Harwood (2015)
Paul Hatzinger (2015)
Terry C. Hazen (2013)
Ji-Zheng He (2014)
Qiang He (2013)
Zhili He (2013)
Brian Hedlund (2014)
Henry Heine (2015)
Hermann J. Heipieper (2014)
Ute Hentschel (2015)
Niels Hendriksen (2015)
Laura Hendrix (2015)
Salvador Herrero (2015)
Paul Hoffman (2015)
Dirk Hoffmeister (2015)
Andrew Holmes (2013)
Allen Honeyman (2015)
Dallas G. Hoover (2015)
David J. Hopper (2013)
Marcus A. Horn (2014)
Hong-Ying Hu (2013)
John Andrew Hudson (2014)
Jeroen Hugenholtz (2015)
Hor-Gil Hur (2015)
Michele Igo (2015)
Fumio Inagaki (2013)
Ralph Jack (2015)
Paul Jackson (2015)
Janet K. Jansson (2013)
Edward Jarroll (2015)
Thomas Jeffries (2014)
Dieter Jendrossek (2015)
Paul R. Jensen (2014)
Ian Jenson (2014)
Nianzhi Jiao (2014)
Zackary Johnson (2015)
Yves Jouanneau (2015)
Juan Luis Jurat-Fuentes (2015)
Matthias Kaestner (2013)
Boran Kartal (2014)
Daniel Kearns (2013)
James E. Keen (2013)
John J. Kelly (2015)
William Kenealy (2015)
Angela Kent (2013)
Philip J. Kersten (2013)
Eungbin Kim (2015)
James Kirby (2013)
Mary Jo Kirisits (2013)
Martin G. Klotz (2014)
Kalmia E. Kniel (2014)
Rob Knight (2013)
Steffen Kolb (2014)
Konstantinos Konstantinidis (2015)
Shige Koseki (2015)
Balasubrahmanyam Kottapalli (2014)
George Kowalchuk (2015)
Sven Krappmann (2015)
Lee Krumholz (2015)
Indira Kudva (2013)
Ursula Kües (2013)
Kirsten Kuesel (2013)
Timothy M. LaPara (2015)
Gisèle LaPointe (2013)
Robert LaRossa (2015)
Luis Larrondo (2014)
Peter Lau (2015)
Jared Leadbetter (2015)
Brian Lefebvre (2013)
Jeffrey T. LeJeune (2015)
Paulo Lemos (2015)
Tine Rask Licht (2014)
Nic D. Lindley (2013)
John T. Lisle (2015)
Wen-Tso Liu (2013)
Xueduan Liu (2013)
Karen Lloyd (2015)
Martin Loessner (2015)
John Londesborough (2015)
Alexander Loy (2014)
Yahai Lu (2013)
Petra Luber (2014)
Tillmann Lueders (2015)
Yanhe Ma (2013)
Sandra Macfarlane (2014)
Robert Mach (2015)
Eugene Madsen (2015)
Jon Magnuson (2013)
Mike Manefield (2014)
Maria Marco (2015)
Helene Marquis (2015)
Phyllis A. W. Martin (2014)
Stephen Martin (2015)
Jan Martinussen (2014)
Emma Master (2015)
Timothy E. Mattes (2014)
Ann Matthysse (2015)
Harold D. May (2013)
Andrew McBain (2015)
Timothy McDermott (2015)
James McKinlay (2015)
Robert McLean (2015)
Brian McSpadden-Gardener (2013)
Rainer Meckenstock (2015)
Rick Meinersmann (2015)
Aubrey Mendonca (2015)
John Scott Meschke (2014)
Chris Miller (2015)
Patricia D. Millner (2015)
Kiwamu Minamisawa (2015)
Jamal Mohamed (2015)
Melanie Mormile (2013)
Jochen Mueller (2015)
Yuji Nagata (2015)
István Nagy (2013)
Cindy H. Nakatsu (2013)
Josh D. Neufeld (2014)
Nancy Nichols (2015)
Walter G. Niehaus, Jr. (2013)
Brendan A. Niemira (2015)
Hideaki Nojiri (2015)
Sean Norman (2015)
Kevin P. O'Connell (2014)
Julie Olson (2015)
Huub Op den Camp (2015)
Ronald S. Oremland (2015)
Mark Osborn (2013)
Konstantinos Papadimitriou (2013)
Ilenys Perez-Diaz (2015)
Gregg Pettis (2014)
Jennifer Pett-Ridge (2015)
Laurent Philippot (2014)
Allen Phillips (2015)
Flynn Picardal (2013)
Carmen Pin (2015)
James L. Pinckney (2014)
Antonio G. Pisabarro (2014)
Mircea Podar (2014)
David Popham (2015)
Rolf Prade (2015)
Maria Prieto (2015)
Jim I. Prosser (2014)
Cheryl L. Quinn (2015)
Ralf Rabus (2014)
Andreja Rajkovic (2015)
Gemma Reguera (2015)
Bernd Rehm (2015)
Gregor Reid (2015)
Christian Riedel (2015)
Kirsti Ritalahti (2015)
Jorge Rodrigues (2013)
David Rodrígues-Lázaro (2015)
Margie Romine (2014)
Michael J. Sadowsky (2013)
Daâd A. Saffarini (2014)
Badal C. Saha (2013)
Maria Sandkvist (2015)
Robert Sanford (2015)
Anderson Sant'Ana (2015)
Sima Sariaslani (2015)
Mahfuzur Sarker (2013)
Brian Sauders (2013)
Bernhard Schink (2015)
Patrick D. Schloss (2015)
Monika Schmoll (2014)
Dirk Schüler (2015)
Lynne Sehulster (2013)
Bernhard Seiboth (2014)
Verena Seidl (2015)
Jeremy D. Semrau (2014)
Peter Setlow (2015)
Gordon Shephard (2013)
Joshua Shrout (2015)
Mark Silby (2015)
Simon D. Silver (2014)
Mitchell Singer (2014)
Steven Singer (2015)
Brajesh Singh (2013)
David Singleton (2015)
Kaarina Sivonen (2014)
Panos Skandamis (2013)
Evan Skowronski (2015)
Joan L. Slonczewski (2014)
Helena Solo-Gabriele (2015)
John Spear (2013)
Andrew Spiers (2013)
Eric Stabb (2013)
Alfons J. M. Stams (2013)
Thaddeus Stanton (2015)
Lisa Stein (2013)
Alexander Steinbüchel (2014)
Roger Stephan (2014)
Brian Stevenson (2013)
George Stewart (2015)
John Stolz (2013)
Wolfgang Streit (2015)
Joseph Sturino (2013)
Marcelino Suzuki (2013)
Ken Takai (2013)
Ralph Tanner (2014)
Gerald W. Tannock (2014)
Sam Telford (2015)
Andreas Teske (2015)
Michael G. Thomas (2015)
Kai Thormann (2015)
Thomas Thurnheer (2015)
Nicolas Toro Garcia (2014)
Effie Tsakalidou (2013)
Masataka Tsuda (2015)
Wouter van der Star (2014)
Paul van der Wielen (2014)
Tina Van Dyk (2015)
Marco Ventura (2015)
Alain Vertes (2013)
Claire Vieille (2015)
Adrián A. Vojnov (2013)
Dmitriy Volokhov (2015)
Julia Vorholt (2015)
Stéphane Vuilleumier (2015)
Carmen Wacher (2013)
Irene Wagner-Döbler (2014)
Aljoscha Wahl (2015)
Judy D. Wall (2015)
Aijie Wang (2013)
Todd Ward (2013)
Keith Warriner (2014)
Scott Weese (2015)
Bart Weimer (2013)
Helge Weingart (2015)
Alan Welman (2015)
Tingyi Wen (2015)
Volker Wendisch (2015)
Marvin Whiteley (2013)
Giovanni Widmer (2013)
Steve Wilhelm (2015)
Charles F. Wimpee (2014)
Regina-Michaela Wittich (2014)
Randy Worobo (2013)
Hong-sheng Wu (2015)
Qinglong Wu (2015)
Chuanwu Xi (2014)
Hua Xiang (2015)
Lihua Xiao (2015)
Luying Xun (2015)
Jagjit Yadav (2014)
S. Steve Yan (2013)
Frank Yang (2015)
Ming Yang (2013)
Yunfeng Yang (2015)
Chris Yeager (2013)
Suleyman Yildirim (2014)
Daniel Zeigler (2015)
Jill Zeilstra-Ryalls (2014)
Karsten Zengler (2014)
Chuanlun Zhang (2015)
Qijing Zhang (2014)
Wei Zhang (2015)
Yu-Zhong Zhang (2014)
Ning-Yi Zhou (2015)
Yong-Guan Zhu (2013)
Erik Zinser (2013)
Erwin G. Zoetendal (2015)
Angeles Zorreguieta (2013)
Sergey Zotchev (2015)
Peter Alan Zuber (2014)
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