From the Editor It’s that time of year again: preparing the last issue (number 4) of a volume of Plant Science Bulletin. But what to say? It’s a special issue for me---my last as editor. First, thank you to Ann Antlfinger, Jenny Archibald, Nina Baghai-Riding, Doug Darnowski, Andy Douglas, Norm Ellstrand, Vicky Funk, Dan Gladish, Root Gorelick, Sam Hammer, Kathryn LeCroy, Chris Martine, Jim Mickle, Mick Richardson, Beth Schussler, Johanne Sharpe, Lindley Tuominen, Carolyn Wetzel, and Andrea Wolfe who served on the PSB Editorial Committee during the past 15 years of my editorship. A lot has changed in the PSB, and the Society, during that time. Beginning that first year, and with help of Scott Russell, we began to make an HTML version of each PSB available online. In the last 2002 issue, PSB 48(4), we announced that Bill Dahl was appointed as the first Executive Director of the Society and that he would be organizing the staff at a new office in St. Louis. An early project was to digitize the entire previous run of PSB to make it available online. Seven years later, in PSB 55(4), we announced that beginning with the first issue of 2010, articles for publication in PSB would be peer-reviewed, thus providing a publication outlet for members to publish scholarship not typically supported by the American Journal of Botany. This also changed the duties of the Editorial Committee members, who assumed responsibilities as monitoring editors of submitted manuscripts. A less noticeable change in 2010 was a subtle reduction in page size to better fit the format of electronic readers. We instituted several dramatic changes in 2011. The most obvious to the reader was the shift to a full-color cover. More important, however, were production changes with the BSA office staff assuming responsibility for copyediting and layout (what a change in my pre-publication schedule---thank you Rich, Beth, and Johanne!). Despite these changes, the most important thing about PSB has remained constant. As I noted in my first editorial, the success of PSB “depends almost entirely on your input as [BSA] members and contributors,” and it will continue to do so. I intend to be a faithful reader and regular contributor in the future, and I hope you will too.
Marsh
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PLANT SCIENCE BULLETIN Editorial Committee Volume 60 Christopher Martine (2014) Department of Biology Bucknell University Lewisburg, PA 17837 chris.martine@bucknell.edu
Carolyn M. Wetzel (2015) Biology Department Division of Health and Natural Sciences Holyoke Community College 303 Homestead Ave Holyoke, MA 01040 cwetzel@hcc.edu
Lindsey K. Tuominen (2016) Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources The University of Georgia Athens, GA 30605 lktuomin@uga.edu
Daniel K. Gladish (2017) Department of Botany & The Conservatory Miami University Hamilton, OH 45011 gladisdk@muohio.edu
Kathryn LeCroy (2018) Biological Sciences, Ecology and Evolution University of Pittsburgh 4249 Fifth Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 kalecroy@gmail.com
Winter 2014 Volume 60 Number 4