Aims and Scope of the Journal Environmental and Experimental Botany:

Environmental and Experimental Botany (EEB) publishes research papers on the physical, chemical, biological, molecular mechanisms and processes involved in the responses of plants to their environment.

In addition to research papers, the journal includes review articles. Submission is in agreement with the Editors-in-Chief.

The Journal also publishes special issues which are built by invited guest editors and are related to the main themes of EEB.

The areas covered by the Journal include:

(1) Responses of plants to heavy metals and pollutants

(2) Plant/water interactions (salinity, drought, flooding)

(3) Responses of plants to radiations ranging from UV-B to infrared

(4) Plant/atmosphere relations (ozone, CO2 , temperature)

(5) Global change impacts on plant ecophysiology

(6) Biotic interactions involving environmental factors.

Each submitted manuscript related to these areas should be preferably based on an explicitly elaborated mechanistic hypothesis. The purely descriptive and following types of manuscripts are not suitable for EEB: field monitoring surveys, pure mathematical modeling without experimentations, pure correlative works, applied papers on agriculture and phytopathology, studies of plant biology, gene expression and molecular works without considering environmental aspects. The research should be based on a clear hypothesis and provide new insights on plant responses to the environment, preferably providing evidence of new mechanisms underlying plant stress resistance. Ecological studies are also encouraged if they provide a sound basis of physiological processes involved in the plant response to the environment.

Original full papers (Regular Papers)
Review articles

Editor-in-Chief
Sergi Munné-Bosch
University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Email Sergi Munné-Bosch
Associate Editor
Filippo Bussotti
University of Florence, Firenze, Italy
Bingru Huang
Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
Zhi-Bin Luo
Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China
Markus Puschenreiter
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Wien, Austria
Joaquim Albenísio Gomes Silveira
Federal University of Ceara Plant Metabolism Laboratory, FORTALEZA, Brazil
Editorial Advisory Board
Shashi Bhushan Agrawal
Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
Ricardo Antunes de Azevedo
University of Sao Paulo Department of Genetics, PIRACICABA, Brazil
Iker Aranjuelo
University of the Basque Country Department of Plant Biology and Ecology, Leioa, Bizkaia, Spain
Juan Barcelo
Autonomous University of Barcelona Animal Biology Plants Biology and Ecology Department, Bellaterra, Spain
Jarle Bjerke
Norsk Institutt for Naturforskning Tromso, Tromsö, Norway
Marián Brestič
Slovak University of Agriculture, Faculty of Agrobiology and Food Resources, Department of Plant Physiology, Nitra, Slovakia
Kunming Chen
Northwest A&F University, College of Life Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas, Yangling, China
Danilo Menezes Daloso
Federal University of Ceará, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Fortalez, Brazil
Tad A. Day
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States
Liumin Fan
Peking University, Beijing, China
Renwei Feng
Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, China
Lorenzo Ferroni
University of Ferrara Department of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Ferrara, Italy
Etelvina Figueira
University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
Cristina Gonnelli
University of Florence Department of Biology, Firenze, Italy
Robert Hänsch
Braunschweig University of Technology, Braunschweig, Germany
Matthew Haworth
The National Research Council of Italy, Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection, Firenze, Italy
David Jespersen
University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences - Griffin Campus, Griffin, Georgia, United States
Yuan-Qing Jiang
Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
M.B. Kirkham
Kansas State University Department of Agronomy, Manhattan, Kansas, United States
Hans-Werner Koyro
University of Giessen, Gießen, Germany
Jörg Leipner
Zürich, Switzerland
Fabricio Eulalio Leite Carvalho
Federal University of Ceará, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Fortalez, Brazil
Chunyang Li
Hangzhou Normal University, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou, China
Cornelius Lütz
University of Innsbruck Institute of Botany and Botanical Garden, Innsbruck, Austria
Annamari Markkola
University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
Angelo Massacci
National Research Council, Roma, Italy
Andy A. Meharg
Queen's University Belfast The Institute for Global Food Security, Belfast, United Kingdom
Abdallah Oukarroum
Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Ben Guerir, Morocco
Martina Pollastrini
University of Florence, Firenze, Italy
Fernando Rivas
National Agricultural Research Institute of Uruguay, Salto, Uruguay
Piotr Rozpądek
Jagiellonian University in Krakow Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology, Krąków, Poland
Eric Ruelland
Sorbonne University Pierre and Marie Curie Campus, Paris, France
Luigi Sanità di Toppi
University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Dimitrios Savvas
Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Henk Schat
VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Rachid Serraj
CGIAR Independent Science & Partnership Council, Rome, Italy
Sergey Shabala
University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
Arun K. Shanker
Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
Joseph Sullivan
University of Maryland at College Park, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Massimiliano Tattini
Research Institute for the Sustainable Protection of Plants National Research Council Florence Unit, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
Erja Taulavuori
University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
Michael Tausz
The University of Melbourne School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences - Creswick Campus, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Timothy Tschaplinski
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States
Ismail Turkan
Ege University, İzmir, Turkey
Luis Valledor
University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
Joseph C.V. Vu
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States
Ruigang Wang
Agro-Environmental Protection Institute, Tianjin, China
Michael Wisniewski
USDA-ARS Appalachian Fruit Research Station, Kearneysville, West Virginia, United States
Yi Xu
Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States
Hong-Xia Zhang
Ludong University, College of Agriculture, Yantai, Shandong, China
Sheng Zhang
Sichuan University School of Life Sciences, Chengdu, China
Marek Živčák
Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra Department of Plant Physiology, Nitra, Slovakia