Functional Plant Biology

Scope

Functional Plant Biology publishes high quality papers about plant functions and their regulation, especially on adaptation to abiotic and biotic stress.

FPB encourages papers on emerging concepts and new tools in plant biology, and studies on the functional biology of plants at all scales from the molecular through whole plant to community.

Recent Special Issues

The Evolution of Plant Functions series

'This virtual special issue contains reviews on major plant funtions and is ideal for lecturers and senior students. All papers are free on-line.


' Plant Phenomics Symposium: from Gene to Form and Function'

FPB Best Paper Award

Functional Plant Biology offers an award for the best paper published by an early-career scientist in the Journal in each calendar year. The winner of the award is invited to present an oral paper at the ComBio conference in the year of the award and registration will be funded by the ASPS.

The award also carries a prize of a one-year print + online subscription to FPB and a certificate presented by the president of ASPS To be eligible for the prize, the first author must be:

1. A member of ASPS or NZSPB

2. A PhD candidate or no more than 10 years post-PhD

Papers eligible for the award will be judged by the Council of ASPS. The winner of the award will be announced in a mid-year issue of the Journal.

Previous Winners

2008 : Joanne Tilbrook

Cell death in grape berries: varietal differences linked to xylem pressure and berry weight loss PDF 2.4 MB

2007 : Abby Cuttriss

Regulation of lutein biosynthesis and prolamellar body formation in Arabidopsis PDF

2006: Rebecca Miller

Cyanogenesis in the Australian tropical rainforest endemic Brombya platynema (Rutaceae): chemical characterisation and polymorphism PDF

2005:Nick Gould

Phloem hydrostatic pressure relates to solute loading rate: a direct test of the Münch hypothesis PDF

2004 : Dr Megan Lindsay, CSIRO Plant Industry

A locus for sodium exclusion (Nax1), a trait for salt tolerance, mapped in durum wheat PDF

Special offer for ASPS and NZSPB members

ASPS and NZSPB members are eligible for a special reduction on personal subscriptions to FPB. Save up to $50 on a yearly subscription! See FPB website for more details: http://www.publish.csiro.au/nid/107/aid/813.htm

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