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EDITORIAL

Functional Plant Biology celebrates its 50th volume

Sergey Shabala https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2345-8981 A B *
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A Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tas. 7005, Australia.

B School of Biological Science, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA 6009, Australia.

* Correspondence to: sergey.shabala@utas.edu.au

Functional Plant Biology 50(3) i-iii https://doi.org/10.1071/FP23034
Published: 7 March 2023

© 2023 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing

Abstract

This Editorial reflects on the past 50 years of Functional Plant Biology and its future directions.


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