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MOLECULAR
PLANT
www.mplant.oxfordjournals.org
www.mplant.org VOLUME 2 NUMBER 6 NOVEMBER 2009
Plastids and Mitochondria
IPPE, SIBS, CAS

MOLECULAR
PLANT
Published on behalf of CSPP and IPPE, SIBS, CAS
Editor-in-Chief
SHENG LUAN
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Co Editor-in-Chief
XIAOYA CHEN
Institute of Plant Physiology & Ecology,
SIBS, CAS, Shanghai, China
Honorary Editors-in-Chief
WINSLOW BRIGGS
Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA
NATASHA RAIKHEL
University of California, Riverside, USA
Advisory Board
Bob Buchanan, Berkeley, USA
Xingwang Deng, New Haven, USA
Rongxiang Fang, Beijing, China
Wilhelm Gruissem, Zurich, Switzerland
Russell Jones, Berkeley, USA
Yuji Kamiya, Yokohama, Japan
J. Clark Lagarias, Davis, USA
Jiayang Li, Beijing, China
Sheila McCormick, Berkeley, USA
Montserrat Pages, Barcelona, Spain
Klaus Palme, Freiburg, Germany
Raoul Ranjeva, Castanet-Tolosan, France
Shauna Somerville, Berkeley, USA
Daye Sun, Shijiazhuang, China
Anthony Trewavas, Edinburgh, UK
Zhihong Xu, Beijing, China
Qifa Zhang, Wuhan, China
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Gynheung An, Pohang, Republic of Korea
Eduardo Blumwald, Davis, USA
Peter Gresshoff, Brisbane, Australia
Arthur Grossman, Palo Alto, USA
Bin Han, Shanghai, China
Klaus Harter, Tuebingen, Germany
Zheng-Hui He, San Francisco, USA
Zuhua He, Shanghai, China
Heribert Hirt, Plant Genomics Research Unit,
CNRS/INRA, Paris, France
Hai Huang, Shanghai, China
Joerg Kudla, Muenster, Germany
Jianming Li, Ann Arbor, USA
Chentao Lin, Los Angeles, USA
Chunming Liu, Beijing, China
Yingtang Lu, Wuhan, China
Todd Mockler, Corvallis, USA
Bernd Muller-Rober, Potsdam, Germany
David Ow, Berkeley, USA
Lijia Qu, Beijing, China
Pamela Ronald, Davis, USA
Dale Sanders, York, UK
Daniel Schachtman, St. Louis, USA
Julian Schroeder, San Diego, USA
Toshiharu Shikanai, Kyoto, Japan
Chunpeng Song, Kaifeng, China
Sudhir K. Sopory, New Delhi, India
Renee Sung, Berkeley, USA
Heven Sze, College Park, USA
Kexuan Tang, Shanghai, China
Mark Tester, Adelaide, Australia
Zhiyong Wang, Palo Alto, USA
Weihua Wu, Beijing, China
Hongwei Xue, Shanghai, China
Yongbiao Xue, Beijing, China
Hongquan Yang, Shanghai, China
Weicai Yang, Beijing, China
Zhenbiao Yang, Riverside, USA
Lixin Zhang, Beijing, China
Xiansheng Zhang, Taian, China
Jianmin Zhou, Beijing, China
Yuxian Zhu, Beijing, China
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