摘要
My invitation to join the editorial board of Journal of Integrative Plant Biology （JIPB） brought back fond memories. In the early 1980＇s when I was a Ph.D. student, the library subscribed to Acta Botanica Sinica （as JIPB was then titled） and would put out current issues in the reading room. When I had finished reading each issue, I remember checking off my name on the strip of paper stapled to the cover. In those days, the journal published in Chinese, with English abstracts, and I saw papers that I wished I could read in full.
My invitation to join the editorial board of Journal of Integrative Plant Biology （JIPB） brought back fond memories. In the early 1980＇s when I was a Ph.D. student, the library subscribed to Acta Botanica Sinica （as JIPB was then titled） and would put out current issues in the reading room. When I had finished reading each issue, I remember checking off my name on the strip of paper stapled to the cover. In those days, the journal published in Chinese, with English abstracts, and I saw papers that I wished I could read in full.
