Maarja Öpik to take up the position of New Phytologist Editor-in-Chief from January 2025

IF 8.3 1区生物学 Q1 PLANT SCIENCES

New Phytologist Pub Date : 2024-12-04 DOI:10.1111/nph.20305

Keith Lindsey

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The New Phytologist Foundation is delighted to announce that Professor Maarja Öpik will take up the position of Editor-in-Chief of New Phytologist from January 2025, for an initial term of 5 years.

Maarja has served as a member of New Phytologist's editorial board since 2013 and is a professor of Molecular Ecology and Director of the Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences at the Faculty of Science and Technology at the University of Tartu, Estonia.

Maarja's research addresses the interactions between plants and mycorrhizal fungi, with specific focus on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal diversity patterns. Maarja pioneered one of the first public databases in the field, MaarjAM (Öpik et al., 2010), which is now widely used as a tool for arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal identification and in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus ecological research.

Maarja will lead an outstanding international board of Editors that focuses on all aspects of plant biology, spanning the journal's five sections: Physiology & Development, Interaction, Environment, Evolution, and Transformative Plant Biotechnology. Maarja noted ‘New Phytologist is a journal that inspires its readers and authors, and this is the main quality that I aspire to keep, strengthen and develop as an Editor-in-Chief. Publishing inspiring papers and maintaining an active, engaging scientific community contributes towards strengthening the journal and its community’.

Maarja will take over the position from Professor Alistair M. Hetherington, who will step down as Editor-in-Chief after 12 years of outstanding service. We are grateful for the outstanding leadership offered by Alistair Hetherington, and the journal's achievements under his tenure as Editor-in-Chief are many. As we look forward, I am delighted to welcome Maarja, an exemplary scientist and editorial colleague to the position of Editor-in-Chief. We are excited to support Maarja's vision for the journal, and her commitment to the ethos of the Foundation in promoting plant science and supporting the international community of plant biologists. We look forward to the next chapter of the journal's development under Maarja's leadership.

The New Phytologist Foundation remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in maps and in any institutional affiliations.

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New Phytologist 生物-植物科学

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期刊介绍： New Phytologist is an international electronic journal published 24 times a year. It is owned by the New Phytologist Foundation, a non-profit-making charitable organization dedicated to promoting plant science. The journal publishes excellent, novel, rigorous, and timely research and scholarship in plant science and its applications. The articles cover topics in five sections: Physiology & Development, Environment, Interaction, Evolution, and Transformative Plant Biotechnology. These sections encompass intracellular processes, global environmental change, and encourage cross-disciplinary approaches. The journal recognizes the use of techniques from molecular and cell biology, functional genomics, modeling, and system-based approaches in plant science. Abstracting and Indexing Information for New Phytologist includes Academic Search, AgBiotech News & Information, Agroforestry Abstracts, Biochemistry & Biophysics Citation Index, Botanical Pesticides, CAB Abstracts®, Environment Index, Global Health, and Plant Breeding Abstracts, and others.