Plant systems and spatial biology
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- Closed
- Submission deadline
A systems perspective frames the next frontier in plant sciences. Moreover, network science aids in translating the complexity of a system into a biological message and enables us to discover novel features and characteristics of this system. Over the last decade, advances in -omics approaches have facilitated numerous breakthroughs in plant sciences. Particularly, spatial single-cell transcriptomics highlights the new era in plant biology by linking the genome to the phenome. Finally, the integration of diverse layers of -omics provides insights into the underlying molecular mechanisms of diverse plant traits relevant to modern agriculture.
Communications Biology now encourages submissions of research articles that make an effort towards a more holistic understanding of various aspects of plant biology. We particularly welcome research articles, Reviews, Perspectives, or Comments that explore spatial biology, network or systems biology, or integrative phenomics and how environmental conditions affect plant growth or other key phenotypes. All submissions will be subject to the same review process and editorial standards as regular Communications Biology Articles.
Editors
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Shahid Mukhtar
University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Dr. Shahid Mukhtar is an Associate Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He conducted his PhD research on Arabidopsis transcriptional regulatory networks at the Max Planck Institute Cologne, Germany. Dr. Mukhtar then carried out postdoctoral research in plant systems biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, collaborating with the Dana Farber Cancer Institute & Center for Cancer Systems Biology, Boston. Shahid started his own laboratory at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2010. His research focuses at the interface of bioinformatics and life sciences. He is broadly interested in interdisciplinary research projects focused on genomics/systems biology of host plant immunity using computational approaches. Dr. Mukhtar joined the editorial board of Communications Biology in January 2018, and is currently the Plant Biology Section Lead.
