View article

This year, we celebrate 100 years of the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB; formerly the American Society of Plant Physiologists). A major motivation for the society was the intent to publish a journal devoted to plant physiology (Hanson 1989), and the first issue of Plant Physiology was published in January 1926. The Plant Cell began publication in January 1989, to fill a gap in the rapidly progressing areas of modern plant molecular cell and developmental biology (Goldberg et al. 2019). To celebrate the 100-year milestone of ASPB and the society’s role in the publication of the highest-quality plant science over the ensuing years, we are pleased to present, in this issue of both journals, a compendium of review articles covering a range of topics in plant biology. The list of topics was divided more or less randomly between the 2 journals, and in each case, a more senior author was invited and asked to …