Plants Exceptional Reviewers List 2024
We are thrilled to share the updated Exceptional Reviewers List 2024. This program was designed to recognize and honor scholars who have consistently delivered exceptional review reports to our journal. Committed to fostering rigorous research and promoting knowledge exchange, Plants (ISSN: 2223-7747) recognizes the significant role our reviewers play in maintaining the quality and integrity of the articles we publish. According to recent surveys conducted in 2023, 91% of our authors rate the peer review as good or excellent, thanks to our pool of excellent reviewers.
We would like to express our sincere appreciation to all the reviewers who have generously volunteered their time and expertise to assist in Plants’ peer-review process. Their dedication and attention to detail in evaluating manuscripts, offering valuable feedback, and contributing to academic rigor are truly commendable.
The Exceptional Reviewers List was introduced in April 2024. Each quarter, we will be selecting a group of outstanding reviewers and introduce them here.
Q3:
Name: Dr. Jean Carlos Bettoni
Affiliation: The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited, Canterbury Agriculture & Science Centre, New Zealand
Interests: germplasm conservation; cryopreservation procedures; pathogen eradication; horticultural species; plant tissue culture; micropropagation
“I am honored to be a member of such a great team and to have the opportunity to contribute to the review process and help authors by providing suggestions/recommendations, and constructive comments to further improve their manuscripts and indirectly help them spread their research. Thank you for the recognition to be included in Plants' 2024 Exceptional Reviewers List.”
Name: Prof. Dr. Claudia Uhde-Stone
Affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, USA
Interests: plant adaptations to nutrient stress; nutrient deficiency signaling; crosstalk
“I am grateful for the time and help that I have received from other reviewers, and try to give back to the community by regularly reviewing papers (if I can find the time). I approach reviewing the way I like my own papers to be reviewed, using constructive criticism to help improve the paper.”
Name: Dr. Dimosthenis Kizis
Affiliation: Scientific Directorate of Phytopathology, Benaki Phytopathological Institute, Greece
Interests: plant stress responses; biotic stress; abiotic stress; antifungal compounds; plant-eliciting compounds; mycotoxins
Name: Prof. Dr. Cailin Wang
Affiliation: Institute of Food Crops, Key Laboratory of Jiangsu Province for Agrobiology, East China Branch of National Center of Technology Innovation for Saline-Alkali Tolerant Rice, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Science, China
Interests: rice genetics; improvement of rice eating quality and breeding
Name: Dr. Rex T. Nelson
Affiliation: United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Corn Insects and Crop Genetics Research Unit, USA
Interests: soybean molecular biology; phenotypic data
Q2:
Name: Prof. Dr. Stanley J. Miklavcic
Affiliation: Phenomics and Bioinformatics Research Centre, UniSA STEM, University of South Australia, Australia
Interests: plant biophysics; mathematical modeling; water and solute transport; salt stress; plant and crop phenotyping
Name: Dr. Marouane Baslam
Affiliation: Laboratory of Biochemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Niigata University, Japan
Interests: plant–microorganism interactions, -omics; climate change; yield; sustainability
Name: Dr. Despina Samakovli
Affiliation: Section of Botany, Biology Department, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Interests: plant physiology; developmental biology
Name: Dr. Klára Kosová
Affiliation: Laboratory of Plant Stress Biology and Biotechnology, Division of Crop Genetics and Breeding, Crop Research Institute, Czech Republic
Interests: plant stress biology including physiology and proteomics
Name: Prof. Dr. Imran Haider Shamsi
Affiliation: Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, China
Interests: crop-stress physiology; environmental toxicology; plant–microbial interaction
Q1:
Name: Dr. Michael Eckerstorfer
Affiliation: Umweltbundesamt–Environment Agency Austria (EAA), Landuse and Biosafety Unit, Austria
Interests: agricultural biotechnology; genome editing; genetic modification; biosafety; risk assessment; emerging technologies; monitoring; GMO detection
“I am honored to contribute to the excellent quality of Plant´s review process managed by the Editorial Office and to provide helpful critical input for the further improvement of manuscripts – being a “beta reader” is equally important and rewarding to me as writing my own papers.”
Name: Dr. Yan Hong
Affiliation: School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Interests: medicinal plants; plant secondary metabolism; plant biotechnology; metagenomics
"I am proud for my contribution to this journal's academic excellence and the advancement of knowledge in our field. My heartfelt appreciation to the editors and fellow reviewers for their trust and collaboration"
Name: Dr. Eric Marcon
Affiliation: AgroParisTech, Univ Montpellier, Montpellier, France
Interests: community ecology; tropical forestry; ecological statistics; R development
Name: Dr. Paula J Rudall
Affiliation: Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, UK
Interests: comparative plant morphology; arrangement and development of plant cells, tissues and organs
Name: Dr. Anna Kostecka-Gugała
Affiliation: Department of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Horticulture, University of Agriculture in Krakow, Poland
Interests: plant physiology; antioxidants; natural products