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Tropical Plant Biology covers the most rapidly advancing aspects of tropical plant biology including physiology, evolution, development, cellular and molecular biology, genetics, genomics, genomic ecology, and molecular breeding. It publishes articles of original research,  but it also accepts review articles and publishes occasional special issues focused on a single tropical crop species or breakthrough. Information published in this journal guides effort to increase the productivity and quality of tropical plants and preserve the world’s plant diversity. The journal serves as the primary source of newly published information for researchers and professionals in all of the aforementioned areas of tropical science.

Editors-in-Chief:
Dr. Ray Ming
Department of Plant Biology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
148 ERML, MC-051
1201 W. Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL 60801
TEL: 217-333-1221
Fax: 217-244-1336
Email: rming@life.uiuc.edu
Dr. Paulo Arruda
Department of Genetics
State University of Campinas
Institute of Biology
Campinas, SP 13083
Brazil
TEL: 55-19-3521137
FAX: 55-19-35211089
Email: parruda@unicamp.br
Editorial Board:
Dr. Ramesh K. Aggarwal
Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, India
Molecular & Cellular Biology
Dr. Elizabeth A. Ainsworth
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Plant Response to Global Climate Change
Dr. Alan C. Andrade
Embrapa Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia, Brasil
Coffee Genomics
Dr. José Luis Araus 
Maize Improvement Program, CIMMYT, Kenya
Maize Physiology
Dr. Robert Birch
The University of Queensland, Australia
Botany
Dr. James A. Birchler
University of Missouri, USA
Molecular Biology
Dr. Graham Bonnett 
CSIRO, Queensland, Australia 
Sugarcane Breeding
Dr. Frikkie Botha
South African Sugarcane Research Institute, South Africa
Biochemistry
Dr. Mike Butterfield
Sugarcane Discovery Breeding, Monsanto, Campinas, Brazil
Genetic and Breeding
Dr. Hongwei Cai
China Agricultural University, China
Rice Genomics, Forage Grass Genetics and Genomics
Dr. Hugo Campos de Quiroz
Centro de Tecnologia Canavieira, Brazill
Plant Breeding and Biotechnology
Dr. Yuval Cohen
Agricultural Research Organization, The Volcani Center, Israel
Plant Molecular Physiology
Dr. James Dale
Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Plant Biotechnology
Dr. Marcelo C. Dornelas
Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil 
Evo-Devo, Plant Development, Plant Reproductive Biology
Dr. Paulo Ferreira
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Dr. Dmitry A. Filatov
University of Oxford, UK
Molecular Evolution, Plant Reproductive Biology
Dr. Wolfgang Gruneberg
CGIAR Potato Research Institute, Peru
Quantitative Genetics
Dr. Elliosha Hajari
ARC-Tropical and Subtropical Crops, South Africa
Biotechnology
Dr. Jeremy Harbinson
Wageningen University, the Netherlands
Photosynthesis
Dr. Desiree M. Hautea
University of the Philippines Los Baños, the Philippines
Genetics & Biotechnology
Dr. Robert Henry
University of Queensland, Australia
Dr. Jiming Jiang
University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA
Molecular Cytogenetics
Dr. Victor M. Jiménez
Universidad de Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica
Plant Physiology & Biotechnology
Prof. Awais Khan
Cornell University, Geneva, NY, USA
Genomics, genetics and breeding for host disease resistance
Dr. Philippe Lashermes
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), France
Coffee Genetics, Comparative Genomics & Genome Evolution
Dr. James H. Leebens-Mack
University of Georgia, USA
Plant Systematics, Plant-pollinator Coevolution, Evolutionary Genomics
Prof. Jianguo Li
South China Agricultural University Guangzhou, Chi
Plant Physiology, Molecular Biology
Yann-Rong Lin, phD
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Genetics, Molecular Breeding
Dr. John Manners 
CSIRO Plant Industry, Australia
Plant Pathology
Dr. Andrew Paterson
University of Georgia, USA 
Genetics & Genomics
Dr. Robert E. Paull
University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
Tropical Plant Biology
Prof. Yuan Qin
Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, China
Genetics, Epigenetics and Developmental Biology
John Riascos, phD
Colombian Sugarcane Research Center, Cali, Colombia
Genetics and genomics, Molecular breeding
Dr. Takuji Sasaki 
Tokyo University of Agriculture, Japan
Rice Genomics
Dr. Samuel Sai-ming Sun 
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Rice Biotechnology & Molecular Biology
Dr. Jorge M. Santamaria
Investigador Titular D., Mérida, Mexico
Plant Pathology, Molecular Biology
Dr. Sithichoke Tangphatsor
National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Khlong Nueng, Thailand
Genetics and Genomics, Molecular Biology
Dr. Boris Vyskot 
The Czech Academy of Science, The Czech Republic
Molecular Cytogenetics and Plant Reproductive Biology
Dr. Rui Xia
South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China
Dr. Zhi-Liang Zheng
Lehman College, City University of New York, USA
Genetics and Systems Biology in Horticultural Crops