|
Annual Review Of Plant Physiology
''Annual Review of Plant Biology'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Annual Reviews. It was first published in 1950 as the ''Annual Review of Plant Physiology''. Sabeeha Merchant has been the editor since 2005, making her the longest-serving editor in the journal's history after Winslow Briggs (1973–1993). As of 2022, '' Journal Citation Reports'' lists the journal's 2021 impact factor as 28.310, ranking it first of 238 journal titles in the category "Plant Sciences". History Beginning in 1947, the publishing nonprofit Annual Reviews began asking plant physiologists if it would be useful to have an annual journal that published review articles summarizing the recent literature in the field. Responses indicated that this would be very favorable, and the ''Annual Review of Plant Physiology'' published its first volume in 1950. Its founding editor was Daniel I. Arnon. It was thus the seventh journal title to be published by Annual Reviews. Its scope was some ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabeeha Merchant
Sabeeha Sabanali Merchant (born 1959) is a professor of plant biology at the University of California, Berkeley. She studies the photosynthetic metabolism and metalloenzymes In 2010 Merchant led the team that sequenced the ''Chlamydomonas'' genome. She was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2012. Early life and education Merchant was born in Mumbai. She was unsure what to specialise in, and took an aptitude test at the age of 12. Merchant scored well in the science and the humanities, but was selected for the sciences as there were not enough girls in the class. Merchant attended the J.B. Petit High School for Girls. At the age of fifteen, Merchant started university at St. Xavier's College, where she was one of five women in a class of 300. She relocated to the United States. She joined the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1978 and became interested in the chemistry of living cells whilst working under the supervision of Glenn Chambliss. Merchant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters Corporation ( ) is a Canadian multinational media conglomerate. The company was founded in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where it is headquartered at the Bay Adelaide Centre. Thomson Reuters was created by the Thomson Corporation's purchase of the British company Reuters Group in April 2008. It is majority-owned by The Woodbridge Company, a holding company for the Thomson family. History Thomson Corporation The forerunner of the Thomson company was founded by Roy Thomson in 1934 in Ontario, as the publisher of ''The Timmins Daily Press''. In 1953, Thomson acquired the ''Scotsman'' newspaper and moved to Scotland the following year. He consolidated his media position in Scotland in 1957, when he won the franchise for Scottish Television. In 1959, he bought the Kemsley Group, a purchase that eventually gave him control of the '' Sunday Times''. He separately acquired the ''Times'' in 1967. He moved into the airline business in 1965, when he acquired Britanni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xiaofeng Cao
Cao Xiaofeng (; born May 1965) is a Chinese plant scientist who researches epigenetics in plants using model species in the genus ''Arabidopsis'' and rice plants. She is an elected member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the US National Academy of Sciences Early life and education Xiaofeng Cao was born and grew up in Beijing. She was interested in the sciences from a young age, and knew she wanted to be a scientist since she was in middle school. She attended Peking University, graduating in 1988 with a bachelor's degree in applied biochemistry. She graduated from China Agricultural University in 1991 with a master's degree in biochemistry, and from Peking University once more in 1997 for her PhD. Her doctoral advisor was Chen Zhangliang. Career After finishing her PhD, Cao came to the US for a postdoctoral research appointment at Washington State University. She then worked as a research associate at the University of California, Los Angeles before becoming a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
