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Editorial
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Plants—of the botanical kind—are not often mentioned in The State of the Union addresses by US Presidents, but when they are, it can have global impacts on plant biology research. In the 1990s, President Clinton ridiculed government support of research on plant stress in one of his addresses, confusing psychological stress with the devastating effects of