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On the Cover: "Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."

           Samuel Johnson.

The romantic image of the biologist laboring doggedly and alone, quietly elucidating the basic laws and principles governing life, has probably always been more fiction than fact: Today, in the modern era, it is a complete falsehood. Plant biology is now more multidisciplinary, more fast-paced, more in the headlines, and more potentially lucrative than ever before. The interactions of scientists both with each other and with society are changing. Beginning with this issue, Plant Physiology begins a series of Editor's Choice essays that explore the questions of standards and ethics in the shifting landscape of modern plant biology.