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New Intellectual Empowerment of JAFC !

2025; American Chemical Society; Volume: 73; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1021/acs.jafc.4c12457

1520-5118

Thomas Hofmann,

Steroid Chemistry and Biochemistry

InfoMetricsFiguresRef. Journal of Agricultural and Food ChemistryVol 73/Issue 1Article This publication is free to access through this site. Learn More CiteCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore citation options ShareShare onFacebookX (Twitter)WeChatLinkedInRedditEmailJump toExpandCollapse EditorialJanuary 8, 2025New Intellectual Empowerment of JAFC!Click to copy article linkArticle link copied!Thomas F. Hofmann*Thomas F. Hofmann*[email protected]More by Thomas F. Hofmannhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4057-7165Open PDFJournal of Agricultural and Food ChemistryCite this: J. Agric. Food Chem. 2025, 73, 1, 1–3Click to copy citationCitation copied!https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jafc.4c12457https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jafc.4c12457Published January 8, 2025 Publication History Received 11 December 2024Published online 8 January 2025Published in issue 8 January 2025editorialCopyright © 2025 American Chemical Society. This publication is available under these Terms of Use. Request reuse permissionsThis publication is licensed for personal use by The American Chemical Society. ACS PublicationsCopyright © 2025 American Chemical SocietySubjectswhat are subjectsArticle subjects are automatically applied from the ACS Subject Taxonomy and describe the scientific concepts and themes of the article.BeveragesFoodManufacturingPeptides and proteinsPlant derived foodOn behalf of the entire editorial team of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry (JAFC), I wish you all a healthy, prosperous, and happy New Year: the transnational family of eminent scientists publishing in JAFC, dedicated reviewers safeguarding quality of our publications, and curious readers excited about the latest research produced in the global web of laboratories.The successful development toward a global brand journal would never have become possible without the enthusiasm, wholehearted engagement, and scientific rigor of our team of Associate Editors. To handle the increasing number of submissions, which has reached a historic maximum of >12 000 manuscripts in 2024, the Editorial Board was further intellectually reinforced as three additional Associate Editors joined our team: Simon Wan Chan (since January 2024), Imre Blank (since August 2024), and Aaron Gross (since August 2024).Simon Wan Chan is a professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China, and recipient of the JAFC Research Article of the Year Award in 2017. He will add additional expertise in chromatographic and mass spectrometric methods, toxic chemicals for food safety testing, and metabolomics approaches. Aaron Gross is a professor at Virginia Tech, United States, and has served on the Editorial Advisory Board of JAFC since 2022. He will strengthen the expertise of the Editorial Board in the field of insecticide/acaricide resistance, discovery, and mode of action. Imre Blank, IBK Food & Beverage Consultancy Sàrl, Switzerland, has a lengthy industrial background, has been awarded the Nestlé Fellow for Food Chemistry and Flavours in 2015, and will add new expertise to the associate editors with a special emphasis on food and flavor chemistry as well as functional ingredients for nutrition and health. Dear Aaron, Imre, and Simon - cordial welcome! I wish you a good time working with us on the Editorial Board. New Associate EditorsSimon Wan Chan (left), Ph.D., from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China, joined the JAFC editorial board as a new Associate Editor in January 2024, and Aaron Gross (middle), Ph.D., from Virginia Tech, United States, and Imre Blank (right), Ph.D., IBK Food & Beverage Consultancy Sàrl, Switzerland, started as new Associate Editors in August 2024.Holger Zorn (University of Giessen, Germany) retired from the editorial board in December 2024. Holger has been an Associate Editor for the journal for 10 years and has handled well over 4000 manuscripts. On behalf of ACS Publications, JAFC, and our board of editors, I sincerely thank Holger for his outstanding commitment, engagement, and efforts in serving as JAFC Associate Editor. Personally, I am incredibly grateful for all Holger has done for JAFC; his ideas, initiatives, and valuable contributions went a long way toward sustaining the journal's sterling reputation in the field. Holger, I wish you all the best for your future endeavors. To recognize his long-standing service and outstanding commitment he provided to JAFC and to further build on his enormous repertoire of competences, it is my pleasure to announce that Holger has agreed to serve on our JAFC Honorary Advisory Board. New Member of the JAFC Honorary Advisory BoardHolger Zorn (middle), University of Giessen, Germany, served as JAFC Associate Editor from 2014 to 2024 and has been appointed as a member of the JAFC Honorary Advisory Board by Managing Editor William King (left) and Editor-in-Chief Thomas F. Hofmann (right).To help to promote rising talented chemists, to learn about their perspectives, and to exchange those with the Editorial Board, we just introduced the JAFC Early Career Advisory Board (ECAB), comprising a balanced array of exceptional early career agricultural and food scientists. Beyond acting as authors, the members of the ECAB are willing to engage with the journal and to advise the editorial board on directions the journal should take, sharing feedback on how the journal can best meet the needs of the community and serving as journal ambassadors by sharing our mission with their peers. The ECAB will also help the journal to promote our values regarding diversity, equality, inclusion, and respect within the JAFC community. Early Career Advisory Board (ECAB) membersMichael Gigl (Technical University Munich, Germany), Julie-Anne Gandier (Häme University of Applied Sciences, Finland), Yao Tang (Tianjin University of Science and Technology, China), Yanbei Wu (Beijing Technology and Business University, China), Hualu Zhou (University of Georgia, United States), Mahesha Poojary (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Taícia Fill (University of Campinas/Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil), Maria-Carmen López de las Hazas (IMDEA Food Institute, Spain), and Herman E. Lutterodt (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana).We also thank those authors who submitted the most outstanding work to JAFC. Launched in 2013, the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry Research Article of the Year Award annually recognizes outstanding research work in the areas of agrochemicals and food chemistry. The two best research articles have been recognized by the JAFC Research Article of the Year Award Lectureships 2024 sponsored by JAFC together with the ACS Divisions of Agrochemicals (AGRO) and Agricultural and Food Chemistry (AGFD). Heiko Rischer (AGFD) and Runjiang Song (AGRO) were awarded a $1000 USD prize and presented their award-winning articles at the ACS National Meeting, August 18–22, 2024, in Denver, Colorado:•Aisala, H.; KärkkäinenIina, E.; Jokinen, I.; Seppänen-Laakso, T.; Rischer, H. Proof of Concept for Cell Culture-Based Coffee. J. Agric. Food Chem. 2023, 71 (47), 18478–18488. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.3c04503.In this award-winning research article, the authors report on the replication of aromas and tastes of a conventional cup of coffee by roasting and brewing lab-grown coffee plant cell cultures. Sensory evaluation by trained taste-testers identified bitterness and sourness characteristics similar to those of conventional coffee, and the new brews had more roasted, burned sugar, and smokey aromas. This study demonstrates the viability of cellular agriculture as an alternative coffee production method, which can help overcome challenges in coffee production like land use, climate change, and increased demand.•Lu, H.; Shen, Z.; Xu, Y.; Wu, Y.; Hu, L.; Song, R.; Song, B. Immune Mechanism of Ethylicin-Induced Resistance to Xanthomonas oryzae pv oryzae in Rice. J. Agric. Food Chem. 2024, 71 (1), 288–299. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.2c07385In this award-winning research article, the authors revealed a detailed mechanism for controlling rice bacterial leaf blight, finding that ethylicin (ET) inhibits Xanthomonas oryzae pv oryzae (Xoo) by increasing the content of defense enzymes and chlorophyll in rice. Proteomic analysis provided insight into ET's impact on the rice abscisic acid (ABA) signal pathway, activating calcium-dependent protein kinase 24 (OsCPK24). The authors identified OsCPK24 as a key mediator in rice resistance to Xoo, paving the way for the development of new bactericides leveraging OsCPK24.JAFC award winner Heiko Rischer is a Research Team Leader for Plant Biotechnology at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd. and an Adjunct Professor in Pharmaceutical Biology at the University of Helsinki. He is a Biologist with a Ph.D. in natural product chemistry, and he is particularly interested in the biosynthesis of plant secondary metabolites. He has expertise in plant cell and tissue culture methods, analysis of secondary metabolites, including metabolic profiling, and biotechnological production, at industrial scales, of plant-based compounds and phytopharmaceuticals. His major current research interest is the use of plant cell cultures for sustainable food production (cellular agriculture).AGRO awardee Dr. Runjiang Song is a professor at the State Key Laboratory of Green Pesticide, Guizhou University (GZU, China). His research focuses on the development of green pesticides, including the design of new agrochemical structures derived from natural products, bioactivity screening, and the application of advanced molecular biology techniques to elucidate their mechanisms of action. He has identified pyruvate kinase as a potential new target against rice bacterial leaf blight and uncovered rice calcium-dependent protein kinase 24 as a target for inducing plant resistance to bacterial diseases. Awardees of the JAFC Research Article of the Year Award Lectureship 2024Heiko Rischer (left) and Runjiang Song (right).Next to our passionate authors, the success of JAFC would not be possible without committed peer experts who deliver timely and high-quality reviews. To recognize their passionate service to the scientific community, we honor the following 10 scholars, whose professionalism and dedication to rigor and quality have been considered outstanding in 2024, with the 2024 JAFC Excellence in Review Award. Please accept my cordial thanks for your continued voluntary and invaluable support in serving the journal and their assistance in maintaining the quality of our published content. Recipients of the 2024 JAFC Excellence in Review Award (from top left to bottom right)Irene Chetschik (ZHAW, Switzerland), Ziwen Wang (Tianjin Normal University, China), Xiangzhen Shen (Nanjing Agricultural University, China), Zhen-Lin Xu (South China Agricultural University, China), Heping Cui (Jiangnan University, China), Ko Fujimori (Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Japan), Sonia Ramos (Instituto de Ciencia y tecnologia de Alimento y Nutricion, Spain), Guliang Yang (Central South University of Forestry and Technology Changsha Campus, China), Adriano Gomes da Cruz (Federal Institute of Rio de Janeiro, Brasil), and Mirjam Czjzek (Station Biologique de Roscoff Vegetaux Marins et Biomolecules, France).We all are looking forward to a productive year 2025, and I hope that all of you, our authors, reviewers, readers, and advisors, have a prosperous and successful year!Author InformationClick to copy section linkSection link copied!Corresponding AuthorThomas F. 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