title: Editorial: When Chemistry Meets Biology - Generating Innovative Concepts, Methods and Tools for Scientific Discovery in the Plant Sciences.
authors.affiliation: Chemical Biology Laboratory, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research Köln, Germany.
authors.forename: Erich
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kombrink
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Biology, Faculty of Biology, Center for Medical Biotechnology, University of Duisburg-Essen Essen, Germany.
authors.forename: Markus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kaiser
keywords: agricultural biotechnology; bioactive small molecule; chemical biology; chemical genetics; high-throughput screening; phytohormones; plant defense; plant–pathogen interactions