Plant Methods is an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal for the plant research community that encompasses all aspects of technological innovation in the plant sciences.

There is no doubt that we have entered an exciting new era in plant biology. The completion of the Arabidopsis genome sequence, and the rapid progress being made in other plant genomics projects are providing unparalleled opportunities for progress in all areas of plant science. Nevertheless, enormous challenges lie ahead if we are to understand the function of every gene in the genome, and how the individual parts work together to make the whole organism. Achieving these goals will require an unprecedented collaborative effort, combining high-throughput, system-wide technologies with more focused approaches that integrate traditional disciplines such as cell biology, biochemistry and molecular genetics.

Technological innovation is probably the most important catalyst for progress in any scientific discipline. Plant Methods’ goal is to stimulate the development and adoption of new and improved techniques and research tools and, where appropriate, to promote consistency of methodologies for better integration of data from different laboratories.

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Methodology
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Software

Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief

Ute Roessner, University of Melbourne, Australia 
Associate Editors
Alexander Bucksch, University of Georgia, USA
Jen-Tsung Chen, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Daniel Dias, RMIT University College of Science Engineering and Health, Australia
Delphine Fleury, Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics, Australia
Atsushi Fukushima, Riken Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Japan
John Golz, University of Melbourne, Australia
Bruce Grieve, University of Manchester, UK
Anjali Iyer-Pascuzzi, Purdue University, USA
Indrajit Kumar, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, USA
Jian-Feng Li, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Yan Liang, E O Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Jennifer Mortimer, Joint Bioenergy Institute, USA
Darren Plett, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Johannes Postma, Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH, Germany
Christophe Pradal, CIRAD UMR AGAP, France
Tony Pridmore, University of Nottingham, UK
Eetu Puttonen, Finnish Geospatial Research Institute in the National Land Survey of Finland, Finland
Sandra Schmoeckel, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
Raksha Singh, University of Arkansas, USA
Qiaochun Wang, Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, China
Nathan Watson-Haigh, University of Adelaide, Australia