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ANNOUNCEMENT Plant Physiology Adopts Incentives for Concise Articles Beginning with submissions on January 1, 2006, Plant Physiology is establishing a limit of 10 journal pages for research articles. While longer papers are permitted at a higher page charge, we believe that the 10-page target is a positive incentive for tight composition, reduced repetition, and appropriate use of supplemental data files. Beginning with submissions on January 1, page charges are $75 per page for the first 10 pages ($55 per page if the corresponding author is a member of ASPB), and the charges for the 11th page and above are doubled. An online calculator is available from the Instructions for Authors (http://www.plantphysiol.org/ misc/ifora.shtml) and in the submission system that will provide an estimated final page count for your article, should it be accepted. For more information, please see the Editorial in the December 2005 issue (http://www.plantphysiol.org/cgi/content/full/139/4/1573). Cite Track Alerts Cite Track Alerts is a free service providing email-based alerts when new articles matching your search criteria are published in Plant Physiology Online, or when designated Plant Physiology Online articles are cited by new articles from a designated set of journals (http://www.plantphysiol.org/ help/ijlinks.dtl). Sign Up Now!!! http://www.plantphysiol.org/cgi/alerts/ctmain
The Arabidopsis Book The American Society of Plant Biologists is pleased to publish The Arabidopsis Book (TAB), a dynamic, fully electronic compilation of chapters co-edited by Chris Somerville, Elliot Meyerowitz, Jeff Dangl, and Mark Stitt and available free of charge on the Internet. TAB offers a new model for scientific publishing. Each of the chapters in the book reviews in detail an important aspect of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana, and the content continually evolves as new information becomes available, making TAB the most comprehensive and current work on Arabidopsis. ASPB is providing funds for the posting and maintenance of TAB on the Internet as a public service. All chapters and updates are hosted in partnership with BioOne (http://www.bioone.org) in both HTML and PDF formats.
Plant Physiology Announces a Reactive Oxygen Species Special Issue Plant Physiology is planning a special issue devoted to Reactive Oxygen Species in June 2006. All excellent papers covering reactive oxygen species signaling and metabolism, oxidative stress homeostasis, and redox signaling research in plants will be considered. Authors interested in contributing to this special issue should indicate this in their cover letter when submitting papers online at http://submit.plantphysiol.org/. Manuscripts to be considered for the special issue should be submitted no later than January 31, 2006. For additional information, please contact Editor-in-Chief Donald Ort (d-ort@uiuc.edu) or Special Issue Editors Julia Bailey-Serres (serres@ucr.edu) and Ron Mittler (ronm@unr.edu). etocs Plant Physiology's FREE etoc service allows anyone who registers to be notified via e-mail when new content goes online. You may choose to receive any or all of the following: Notification that a new issue of Plant Physiology is online Planned tables of contents for future issues Complete table of contents for new issues Special Announcements from ASPB SIGN UP NOW!!! http://www.plantphysiol.org/cgi/alerts/etoc
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Plant Biology Joint Annual Meeting of the American Society of Plant Biologists and the Canadian Society of Plant Physiologists Société Canadienne de Physiologie Végétale Hynes Convention Center Boston, Massachusetts August 5-9, 2006 SYMPOSIA Plants Mitigating Global Change Stephen P. Long, University of Illinois Legumes: Genomes to Biology Douglas R. Cook, University of California-Davis Ion Channels and Cellular Signaling Julian I. Schroeder, University of California-San Diego Gibbs Medal Symposium: Genome Scale Biology Joseph R. Ecker, The Salk Institute President's Symposium: Plant Responses to the Environment Michael F. Thomashow, Michigan State University For more information: American Society of Plant Biologists Telephone: 301-251-0560 Fax: 301-279-2996 E-Mail: info@aspb.org Web Site: http://www.aspb.org/meetings/pb-2006 Photo Credit: Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau