An international journal of experimental plant biology

This journal has no page charges, publication is free of charge.

Plant Science will publish in the minimum of time, research manuscripts as well as commissioned reviews, method papers (technical papers) and commentaries recommended by its referees in all areas of experimental plant biology with emphasis in the broad areas of genomics, proteomics, biochemistry (including enzymology), physiology, cell biology, development, genetics, functional plant breeding, systems biology and the interaction of plants with the environment. Although manuscripts containing large data are welcomed, they must contain functional validation.

Manuscripts for full consideration should be written concisely and essentially as a final report. The main criterion for publication is that the manuscript must contain original and significant insights that lead to a better understanding of fundamental plant biology. Papers centering on plant cell culture should be of interest to a wide audience and methods employed result in a substantial improvement over existing established techniques and approaches. Methods papers are welcome only when the technique(s) described is novel or provides a major advancement of established protocols.

Plant Science is not a publication vehicle for preliminary observations, for studies that are merely confirmatory of results accomplished in other plant systems, or that are addressed only to a specialized readership. Submitted manuscripts describing studies of preliminary nature, that are merely confirmatory in scope or of limited scope and interest to the general readership of the journal will be returned without formal review. As a general policy, the journal will no longer consider manuscripts just describing the cloning, sequencing and expression patterns of gene sequences that have been identified and characterized in other plant species, expression of a protein without proper characterization of the recombinant product and native form, the isolation, purification and characterization of enzymes extensively analyzed in other plants, description of molecular markers and plant genetic diversity without any relevant biological information, cell culture and/or transformation of plant species (or closely related species) already established in the literature and basic transcriptomic approaches with no further relevant functional characterization of genes of interest.

1. Original research papers
2. Review articles
3. Technical perspectives
4. Correspondence

Editors-in-Chief
Eduardo Blumwald
University of California, Davis, Davis, California, USA Email Eduardo Blumwald
Erich Grotewold
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA Email Erich Grotewold
Liwen Jiang
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China Email Liwen Jiang
David Wendehenne
Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France Email David Wendehenne
Review Editor
Thomas Okita
Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, USA Email Thomas Okita
Editorial Advisory Board
Angélique Besson-Bard
Dijon, France
Paula Casati
Rosario, Argentina
Luigi Cattivelli
Fiorenzuola d'Arda, Italy
John Delano-Frier
Irapuato, Mexico
Michel Delseny
Perpignan, France
Anna Dobritsa
Columbus, Ohio, USA
Ian Dodd
Lancaster, England, UK
John Finer
Wooster, Ohio, USA
Kevin M. Folta
Gainesville, Florida, USA
Caiji Gao
Guangzhou, China
John Gray
Toledo, Ohio, USA
Bernhard Grimm
Berlin, Germany
Junxian He
Hong Kong, China
Paul Hwang
Pullman, Washington, USA
Jyan-Chyun Jang
Columbus, Ohio, USA
Juan Francisco Jimenez-Bremont
San Luis, Mexico
James Ketudat Cairns
Nakoh Ratchasima, Thailand
Efraim Lewinsohn
Ramat Yishay, Israel
Rogerio Margis
Porto Alegre RS, Brazil
Autar Mattoo
Beltsville, Maryland, USA
Yansong Miao
Singapore, Singapore
Bernd Mueller-Roeber
Potsdam-Golm, Germany
Douglas Muench
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Paul Nakata
Houston, Texas, USA
Zvi Peleg
Rehovot, Israel
Alexios Polidoros
Thermi, Thessaloniki, Greece
Rosa M. Rivero
Murcia, Spain
Juan Ruiz
Granada, Spain
Avi Sadka
Bet Dagan, Israel
Nelson Saibo
Oeiras, Portugal
Bidyut Sarmah
Jorhart, Assam, India
Sergey Shabala
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Jeffrey Shen
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Takehiko Shimada
Shimizuku, Japan
Wayne Snedden
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Jindong Sun
Urbana, Illinois, USA
Els van Damme
Gent, Belgium
Bao Yiqun
Nanjing, China
Bo Zhou
Los Baños, Philippines
Aviah Zilberstein
TEL AVIV, Israel