We wish to express our deep appreciation to members of the editorial board and all of our reviewers, whose time spent on thoughtful and fair assessment of the work of their colleagues is vital to the quality of the scientific literature and the advancement of science.
At The Plant Cell, we engage in pre-review consultations with multiple editors to determine the suitability of submissions for external review, and we host post-review consultations between editors and reviewers to help guide decisions. We aim to provide authors with clear decisions as quickly as possible, yet based on careful consideration through true peer review.
We know it is deeply disappointing to have a manuscript declined without external review—yet we do this to save time and effort for authors as well as reviewers, and potentially speed the path to publication in another journal. When a manuscript is declined without external review, it is because multiple editors unanimously judge that the work is not among the top tier of manuscripts in the field and is unlikely to fare well with reviewers. We aim to return such manuscript to the authors as quickly as possible and to provide constructive comments reflecting our internal discussions, to give the authors the opportunity to submit to another journal for more rapid publication or, if warranted, to revise and resubmit to The Plant Cell. Many authors have reported that they appreciate the extra effort that has gone into the decision-making process, even when a manuscript has been declined, because the decision was made quickly and/or the decision letter reflected a fair assessment of the work.
In addition, this process saves our reviewers considerable time and effort, as we do not request reviews for manuscripts that are unlikely to meet with a positive outcome. On the contrary, enthusiasm from a single editor is sufficient to move the manuscript to external review. And for manuscripts that do get reviewed, we hope that reviewers will use the time saved to put a little extra effort into the post-review consultation, reading through the other reviews and engaging in discussion with other reviewers and the reviewing editor to help shape the decision and provide concise, constructive comments to the authors. This process requires commitment and considerable investment of time from editors and reviewers alike, and we are deeply appreciative of all those who have volunteered their time in the service of The Plant Cell.
The senior editors of The Plant Cell have a special responsibility for guiding the pre-review consultations, assigning reviewing editors, mentoring newer members of the editorial board, and helping to set standards for publication in the journal. At present, we have 13 senior editors, 33 reviewing editors, 46 guest editors, 2 consulting editors, and 29 assistant features editors representing more than 70 institutions from around the world. We continue to seek out additional editors to ensure adequate expertise in all areas of submissions and to expand the diversity of the editorial board. Please view the profiles of our editors at https://plantcelledboard.weebly.com/ (or look for the link on the journal website, as this url may change in the future). When you submit your next manuscript to The Plant Cell, we ask that you recommend several editors who can appreciate your work.
We extend special thanks to the following editors who are leaving the board this year: Barbara Kunkel (Reviewing Editor 2015–2021), Caroline Gutjahr (Reviewing Editor 2019–2021), and Naomi Ori (Reviewing Editor 2015–2021). We offer a sincere thank you to our many external reviewers, on behalf of all our authors, editors, and readers, for your willingness to provide thoughtful and constructive reviews. Reviewers who served the journal between October 1, 2020 and September 1, 2021 are listed below.
Mitsutomo Abe
Zach Adam
Magaret Ahmad
Takashi Akagi
David Alabadi
Nick Albert
Pablo Albertos
Andrew Allan
Jose Alonso
John Alvarez
Tonni Andersen
Vasilios Andriotis
Ruthie Angelovici
Steven Arisz
Tamar Avin-Wittenberg
Christina Azodi
Andreas Bachmair
Elena Baena-González
Ming-Yi Bai
Julia Bailey-Serres
Sureshkumar Balasubramanian
Janneke Balk
Carlos Ballare
Mark Banfield
Sohyun Bang
Maya Bar
Marie Barberon
Alice Barkan
Jaime Barros-Rios
Bonnie Bartel
Madelaine Bartlett
Tobias Baskin
Diane Bassham
Henri Batoko
Isabel Baurle
Dirk Becker
Philip Becraft
Sebastian Bednarek
Timothy Beissinger
Issam Ben-Sahra
Kyle Bender
Philip Benfey
Moussa Benhamed
Tom Bennett
Matthias Benoit
Leónie Bentsink
Frederic Berger
Dominique Bergmann
Catherine Bergounioux
Oliver Berkowitz
Christine Beveridge
Magdalena Bezanilla
Rishikesh Bhalerao
Laurence Bindschedler
Kenneth Birnbaum
Anthony Bishopp
Ton Bisseling
Stefan Björklund
Noel Blanco-Touriñán
Mike Blatt
Todd Blevins
Eduardo Blumwald
Ralph Bock
Maria Bohnert
Arezki Boudaoud
Stephane Bourque
Yohann Boutté
Daniel Bouyer
Mondher Bouzayen
John Bowman
Janet Braam
Hans Brandstetter
Hans-Peter Braun
Luis Brieba
Carla Brillada
Anne Britt
Peter Brodersen
Matthew Brooks
C. Robin Buell
Robert Burnap
Lucas Busta
Ana Caicedo
Marie-Cecile Caillaud
Myriam Calonje
Xiaofeng Cao
Jorge Casal
Stuart Casson
Carmen Catala
Pablo Cerdan
Thierry Chardot
Deborah Charlesworth
Ho-Ming Chen
Xuewei Chen
Z. Jeffrey Chen
Zhixiang Chen
Roger Chetelat
Alice Cheung
Andrea Chini
Daniel Chitwood
Giltsu Choi
Chengcai Chu
George Chuck
Lynn Clark
Enrico Coen
Luca Comai
Daniel Cosgrove
Vinicius Costa Galṽao
Kevin Cox Jr
Martin Crespi
Daniel Croll
Peng Cui
Yong Cui
Andrew Cuming
Alexandre Cunha
Josh Cuperus
Yasin Dagdas
Seth Davis
R. Dawe
Brad Day
David Day
Fernanda de Carvalho-Niebel
Stefan de Folter
Bert De Rybel
Ive De Smet
Lieven De Veylder
Roger Deal
Caroline Dean
Seth DeBolt
Michael Deeks
Dean DellaPenna
Kamil Demski
Claude dePamphilis
Yoshitake Desaki
Rocio Diaz de la Garza
Pingtao Ding
Yiliang Ding
Jose Dinneny
Anna Dobritsa
Aiwu Dong
Juan Dong
Suomeng Dong
Xinnian Dong
Wolfgang Dröge-Laser
Steven Driever
Qian Du
Daniel Ducat
Jörg Durner
Peter Eastmond
Julian Eaton-Rye
Joseph Ecker
David Ehrhardt
Farid El Kasmi
Yuval Eshed
Richard Espley
Mark Estelle
Peter Etchells
John Evans
Andrea Eveland
Tatsuhiro Ezawa
Hiroshi Ezura
Michelle Facette
Christian Fankhauser
Eva Farre
Matyas Fendrych
Feng Feng
Brett Ferguson
Alisdair Fernie
Cristina Ferrandiz
Ivo Feussner
Duarte Figueiredo
Carlos Figueroa Lamas
Ruth Finkelstein
Andrew Fleming
Fabio Fornara
John Fowler
Margaret Frank
F. Christopher Franklin
Joanna Friesner
Lillian Fritz-laylin
Wolf Frommer
Zheng Fu
Joseph Gage
Kimberly Gallagher
Mary Galli
Caiji Gao
Junping Gao
Allison Gaudinier
Sonia Gazzarrini
Danny Geelen
Mary Gehring
Niko Geldner
Pascal Genschik
Jonathan Gent
Bernard Genty
Jonathan Gershenzon
Miriam Gifford
Glenda Gillaspy
Michel Goldschmidt-Clermont
Alexander Goldshmidt
Alain Goossens
Emmanuelle Graciet
Murray Grant
Kathleen Greenham
Brian Gregory
Jonathan Griffiths
Julien Gronnier
Arthur Grossman
Guido Grossmann
José Gualberto
Bruno Guillotin
Yan Guo
Sarah Hake
Bjoern Hamberger
Patrice Hamel
Ulrich Hammes
Kosuke Hanada
Linda Hanley-Bowdoin
Johannes Hanson
Ikuko Hara-Nishimura
John Harada
Jeremy Harbinson
Jake Harris
Maria Harrison
Elizabeth Haswell
George Haughn
Angela Hay
Ryosuke Hayama
Ping He
Yuehui He
Joshua Heazlewood
Ingo Heilmann
Yrjö Helariutta
Ruediger Hell
Matthew Helm
Karolina Heyduk
James Higgins
Asia Hightower
Heribert Hirt
Ute Hoecker
N. Michele Holbrook
David Holding
Paul Hooykaas
Sanwen Huang
Shuai Huang
André Hudson
Enamul Huq
Aman Husbands
Petr Ilík
Takato Imaizumi
Niloufer Irani
Toshiki Ishikawa
Hiro-oki Iwakawa
Yvon Jaillais
Tiffany Jamann
Jyan-Chyun Jang
Jose Jarillo
Dong-Hoon Jeong
Danhua Jiang
Jiming Jiang
Liwen Jiang
Yuling Jiao
Giles Johnson
Matthew Johnson
Alexandra Jones
Emily Josephs
Magdalena Julkowska
Pauline Jullien
Claudia Köhler
Radek Kaňa
Takehiro Kamiya
Stanislaw Karpinski
Fumiaki Katagiri
Martin Kater
Yusuke Kato
Yoji Kawano
Tim Kelliher
Tijs Ketelaar
Roxana Khoshravesh
Joseph Kieber
Tae-Wuk Kim
Seisuke Kimura
Charlotte Kirchhelle
Harry Klee
Bostjan Kobe
Josef Komenda
Barbara Korbei
Arthur Korte
Dylan Kosma
Hiroyuki Koyama
David Kramer
Ksenia Krasileva
Gabriel Krouk
Cris Kuhlemeier
S Vinod Kumar
Barbara Kunkel
Dorota Kwiatkowska
Junko Kyozuka
Thomas Lübberstedt
Jennifer Lachowiec
Jinsheng Lai
Abdellah Lakehal
Christophe Lambing
Dmitry Lapin
John Larkin
Brian Larkins
Paul Larsen
Marta Laskowski
Sascha Laubinger
Ilha Lee
Ji-Young Lee
Yun Sun Lee
Samuel Leiboff
Aaron Leichty
Stephane Lemaire
Fangfang Li
Ruixi Li
Shaoqing Li
Xu Li
Yunhai Li
Zhengguo Li
Boon Lim
Hong-Xuan Lin
Wen-Hui Lin
Ryan Lister
Bo Liu
Chang Liu
Chang-Jun Liu
Chun-Ming Liu
Hongtao Liu
Kun-hsiang Liu
Lin Liu
Luning Liu
Michele Loewen
Jan Lohmann
Olivier Loudet
John Lovell
Guo-dong Lu
Shan Lu
Zefu Lu
Xiao Luo
Ari Pekka Mähönen
Alberto Macho
Sally Mackenzie
Thelma Madzima
Ian Major
Yuko Makita
Julin Maloof
Roberto Mantovani
Stéphane Mari
Daniel Marino
Amy Marshall-Colon
Enrico Martinoia
Takuya Matsuo
Tomonao Matsushita
Marjori Matzke
Christophe Maurel
Donald McCarty
C. McClung
Alistair McCormick
David McCurdy
Benoit Menand
Xiangzong Meng
Raphael Mercier
Rémy Merret
Scott Michaels
Anthony Millar
Ron Mittler
Gabriele Monshausen
Santiago Mora-Garcia
Jordi Moreno-Romero
Nicholas Morffy
Chris Morgan
James Moroney
Rebecca Mosher
Hiroyasu Motose
Zhonglin Mou
Sabine Mueller
Sam Mugford
Teun Munnik
Mary Munson
Takashi Murata
Angus Murphy
Jeremy Murray
Aline Muyle
Dawn Nagel
Yuki Nakamura
Naomi Nakayama
Hong Gil Nam
Eiji Nambara
Johnathan Napier
Christiane Nawrath
Andreas Nebenführ
Hilde Nelissen
Brad Nelms
Min Ni
Jörg Nickelsen
Chad Niederhuth
Basil Nikolau
Ove Nilsson
Zachary Nimchuk
Yuese Ning
Takumi Nishiuchi
Peter Nixon
Graham Noctor
Michael Nodine
Fabio Nogueira
Trevor Nolan
Michitaka Notaguchi
Michael Nuccio
Adriano Nunes-Nesi
Dmitri Nusinow
Yoshihisa Oda
Remko Offringa
Misato Ohtani
Jana Oklestkova
Matt Olson
Anne Osbourn
Michela Osnato
Lars Ostergaard
Oren Ostersetzer-Biran
Marisa Otegui
Thomas Ott
Claire Périlleux
Andrzej Pacak
Alice Pajoro
Ralph Panstruga
Francois Parcy
Chankyu Park
Uta Paszkowski
Javier Paz-Ares
Ales Pecinka
Ullas Pedmale
Gilles Peltier
Zhaohua Peng
Staffan Persson
Dimitris Petroutsos
Nikolaus Pfanner
Manuel Piñeiro
Ronald Pierik
Marinus Pilon
B. Poovaiah
David Posé
Rebecca Povilus
Monica Pradillo
Salome Prat
Tiancong Qi
Yijun Qi
Qian Qian
Yongli Qiao
Feng Qin
Yuan Qin
Yongjian Qiu
Fernando Rabanal
Cécile Raynaud
Fabrice Rebeille
Hugues Renault
Ralf Reski
Philippe Reymond
Jessica Ridilla
Christoph Ringli
Silke Robatzek
David Robinson
Sarah Robinson
Jean-David Rochaix
Rogelio Rodríguez-Sotres
Antia Rodriguez-Villalon
Adrienne Roeder
Teresa Roldan-Arjona
Maida Romera-Branchat
Magdalena Rossi
Ronelle Roth
Sandrine Ruffel
Daniel Runcie
Mark Running
Moshe Sagi
Julio Salinas
Patrice Salomé
David Salt
Arun Sampathkumar
A. Samuels
Dale Sanders
Michael Sauer
Diane Saunders
Hidetoshi Saze
Mark Aurel Schöttler
Robert Schmitz
James Schnable
Arp Schnittger
Thorsten Schnurbusch
Michael Schroda
Julian Schroeder
Daniel Schubert
Benjamin Schwessinger
Rachel Shahan
Libo Shan
Eilon Shani
Laura Shannon
Sidney Shaw
Huazhong Shi
Xiaowen Shi
Adrien Sicard
Daniel Silhavy
Rüdiger Simon
Craig Simpson
Neelima Sinha
Aleksandra Skirycz
Daniel Sloan
R. Keith Slotkin
Ian Small
Andrei Smertenko
Alison Smith
Richard Smith
Steven Smith
Kimberley Snowden
Kee Hoon Sohn
Pamela Soltis
Chris Somerville
Junqi Song
Joris Sprakel
Andreas Stahl
Christopher Staiger
Dorothee Staiger
Remco Stam
Martin Stegmann
Adam Steinbrenner
Anna Stepanova
Ioannis Stergiopoulos
David Stern
Mark Stitt
Jens Stougaard
Josh Strable
Lucia Strader
Robert Stupar
Senthil Subramanian
Qianwen Sun
Heven Sze
Fuminori Takahashi
Yohei Takahashi
Hiroyoshi Takano
Junpei Takano
Renjie Tang
Milos Tanurdzic
Xiaorong Tao
Matthew Templeton
Allan Terbush
Steven Theg
Gerhard Thiel
Stephen Thomas
Sebastien Thomine
Feng Tian
Li Tian
Jurriaan Ton
Hongning Tong
Pascal Touzet
Lam-Son Tran
Ben Trevaskis
Marco Trujillo
Yi-Fang Tsay
Takashi Tsuchimatsu
Kenichi Tsuda
Franziska Turck
Simon Turner
Vered Tzin
Roman Ulm
Masaaki Umeda
Nobuyuki Uozumi
Daisuke Urano
B. Vijaya Lakshmi Vadde
Daniel Van Damme
Yves Van de Peer
Esther van der Knaap
Hans van Gorkom
Jaimie Van Norman
Frank Vanbreusegem
Robert VanBuren
Michiel Vandenbussche
Klaas Vandepoele
Bartel Vanholme
Miguel Vega-Sanchez
Joop Vermeer
Paul Verslues
Grégory Vert
Jean-Philippe Vielle-Calzada
Richard Vierstra
Stanislav Vitha
Thomas Vogt
Lars Voll
Maria von Korff
Andreas Wachter
Doris Wagner
Justin Walley
Jianmin Wan
Cun Wang
Dong Wang
Ertao Wang
Guan-Feng Wang
Guo-Liang Wang
Haiyang Wang
Shui Wang
Wei Wang
Xuemin Wang
Yingxiang Wang
Yong Wang
Jacob Washburn
Geoffrey Wasteneys
Mark Waters
Alexander Watson-Lazowski
Jing-Ke Weng
Christopher West
Lucas Wheeler
James Whelan
Clinton Whipple
Charles White
Noah Whiteman
Thomas Wichard
Susann Wicke
Raymond Wightman
Olivia Wilkins
Jason Williams
Mary Williams
Simon Williams
Zoe Wilson
Brenda Winkel
Jennifer Wisecaver
Ute Wittstock
Francis-Andre Wollman
Aimin Wu
Jianqiang Wu
Shu-Hsing Wu
Shu-Zon Wu
Yongrui Wu
Michael Wudick
Guohua Xu
Lin Xu
Tongda Xu
Ramin Yadegari
Shunping Yan
Shuichi Yanagisawa
Hong-Quan Yang
Shuhua Yang
Wei-Cai Yang
Wenqiang Yang
Zhenbiao Yang
Marcelo Yannovsky
Todd Yeates
Heejin Yoo
Diqiu Yu
Meng Yuan
Zheng Yuan
Mark Zander
Raul Zavaliev
Samuel Zeeman
William Zerges
Jixian Zhai
Junpeng Zhan
Genfa Zhang
Qunyu Zhang
Shuqun Zhang
Tian Zhang
Xiao Zhang
Yijing Zhang
Yuelin Zhang
Meixia Zhao
Jian-Min Zhou
Mian Zhou
Xiao-Hong Zhuang