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Hormones in plant reproduction
Plant hormones (phytohormones) have a rich history of investigation, and play important roles in virtually all growth and developmental processes. In past decades, much progress has been made in understanding how plant hormones control processes central to reproduction in plants. These include well-studied roles of auxin in flower initiation, female gametophyte cell specification, patterning and embryogenesis, ethylene in fruit ripening, and abscisic acid in floral abscission, but also more recent findings. This article collection aims to showcase the role of all hormones in plant reproduction and the status, developments, and challenges in the area of hormone function and biology in plant reproduction.
Editors
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Nayelli Marsch-Martinez
Nayelli Marsch is an Associate Professor at the department of Biotechnology and Biochemistry at CINVESTAV-IPN Unidad Irapuato, in Mexico. Her group investigates the genetic regulation of organ initiation, formation and growth, particularly aerial organs, and mainly the gynoecium of Arabidopsis thaliana, but also other organs and plants. We are particularly interested in transcription factors that regulate development, and their relationship with hormonal and other signalling pathways.
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Paula McSteen
Paula McSteen is in expert in the role of auxin in maize reproductive development. She did her PhD on flower development in Antirrhinum with Enrico Coen at the John Innes Center, Norwich, UK and a postdoc on maize inflorescence development with Sarah Hake, at the Plant Gene Expression Center/University of California Berkeley. She was an Assistant and Associate Professor at Penn State University (2002-2010) and Associate and Full Professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia (2010-present). She was elected a Fellow of AAAS in 2020 and received the L. Stadler Mid-Career Excellence in Maize Genetics Award in 2017.
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Lars Østergaard
Lars Østergaard is from Denmark and studied Biochemistry at the University of Copenhagen. In 1997, he received his PhD on plant peroxidases also from University of Copenhagen. Following his postdoctoral studies at UC San Diego on the genetics of fruit development, Lars moved to the John Innes Centre in Norwich, UK, to establish his laboratory. During his 18 years at JIC, Lars has been Head of Department of Crop Genetics and an Institute Programme Leader. He holds honorary professorships at University of Copenhagen and University of East Anglia, and started his position in Oxford in November 2022.
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Dolf Weijers
Chair of Biochemistry, Wageningen University & Research
