Editor-in-Chief Yunde Zhao and the staff of Plant Physiology thank the reviewers listed below, whose insight and contributions in reviewing manuscripts from November 2, 2021, to December 31, 2022, have helped make the journal a success. We would also like to thank the Associate Editors, Monitoring Editors, and Assistant Features Editors for their considerable...

Unlike animals, plants possess the marvelous ability to continuously generate new aboveground organs through their lifespan because of populations of pluripotent stem cells housed at the tip of the shoot apical meristem (SAM). Apart from the stem-cell central zone, the SAM also harbors several types of organogenesis-initialization cells sitting at peripheral...

Plants interact with a variety of microbes in their environment, and the outcome of these interactions for the plant can range from detrimental to beneficial. While many microbes are known to promote plant growth, the mechanisms behind the growth promotion are often unknown, and multiple mechanisms are likely involved (Vacheron et al., 2013; Vandenkoornhuyse...

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To survive, living organisms must perceive environmental fluctuations and develop the proper responses. For this purpose, all biological systems utilize multiple signaling molecules that translate external signals into specific developmental responses and help them cope with the environmental conditions faced. Among these, cyclic nucleotides comprise...

Guanine-rich regions of DNA can fold into a particular structure called a G-quadruplex (G4) (Figure  1, A). The G4 structure is stabilized by Hoogsteen hydrogen bonds that form between the guanine bases (Moon et al., 2015). Previous studies have proposed a role for G4s in diverse biological processes, such as DNA replication, telomerase maintenance,...