**Meet the editor**

James Board is a Professor of Agronomy in the School of Plant, Environmental, and Soil Sciences in the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA. He obtained a Ph.D. in plant physiology from the University of California at Davis in 1978, and shortly thereafter assumed his current position. He has been working on soybean production and

physiology at this institution for the last 32 years and has also taught crop ecological/physiological classes across this period. Dr. Board has authored 61 refereed journal articles related to planting dates, row spacings, plant population, defoliation, stress physiology, growth dynamics, and yield component formation.
