Journal of Plant Interactions is a fully open access journal that publishes research on the interactions of plants with their surrounding environment.

Journal of Plant Interactions aims to inform all plant biologists, plant physiologists, ecologists, mycologists, microbiologists, agronomists, landscape architects, environmental engineers, entomologists, students and all researchers interested in biological struggle and sustainable use of natural resources.

The journal covers topics including:

    Plant-Plant Interaction
    All biochemical, physiological and molecular aspects of plant-plant interactions
    Plant-Microorganism Interaction
    Three fundamental sub-areas: Plant-Fungi; Plant-Bacteria and Plant-Virus Interactions
    Plant-Insect Interaction
    All aspects of interaction: from pest attack to plant attraction; from tritrophic interactions to biological control
    Plant-Human interactions
    Interaction of plant molecules with human health.
    Plant-Environment Interaction (open environment)
    This area is divided into two general sections: ‘open environment’ and ‘closed environment’. The first section covers all aspects of plants’ interaction with abiotic stresses present in the natural environments.
    Plant-Environment Interaction (closed environment)
    Research reports on artificial environments where plants live both on Earth and in space applications, Astrobiology, Biological Life Support Systems, remote sensing, biosensing and nanotechnology
    Plant-Soil Interaction (including Plant-Water Interaction)
    This area deals with nutrition, drought, flooding, restoration, phytoremediation, bioremediation, applied ecology, and all aspects where plants interact with the soil.

Journal of Plant Interactions accepts original research papers, short communications and review papers. Authors are encouraged to include Key policy highlights (3 to 5 in total) in their paper. These should have approximately 100 words, which set out the main findings of the paper that are of specific relevance to policy makers. These key policy highlights should be presented as a bulleted list of concise but complete sentences. They form part of the submission and will be published below the academic abstract.

Please note that this journal only publishes manuscripts in English.

The journal operates a double-anonymized peer review policy.

All articles are made freely and permanently available online through gold open access publication.

Editor-in-Chief
  Massimo Maffei  - Faculty of Sciences, University of Turin, Italy

 
 Manuscript Manager
  Francesca Barbero  - Faculty of Sciences, University of Turin, Italy

 
 Editorial Board
 Anand Akhila - Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, India
 Graziella Berta - Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale "A. Avogadro", Italy 
 Guido V. Bloemberg - Leiden University, The Netherlands 
 Wilhelm Boland - Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Germany 
 Harro Bouwmeester -  University of Amsterdam, Swammerdam Institute of Life Sciences 
 Christian Damgaard - Department of Terrestrial Ecology, Denmark 
 Andreas Erhardt - Universität Basel, Switzerland 
 Stephen K. Farrand - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA 
 Gary W Frasier - Crops Research Laboratory, USA  
 Paolina Garbeva - The Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Wageningen, Netherlands 
 Yuke He - National Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genentics, China 
 Anton Hartmann - Institute of Soil Ecology, Germany 
 Francesco Loreto - Istituto di Biologia Agroambientale e Forestale (IBAF), Italy  
 Mickael Malnoy -  Genomic and Advanced Biotechnology Unit, Edmund Mach Foundation , Italy 
 Kenji Matsui -  Yamaguchi University, Japan 
Jean Charles Munch - Institute of Soil Ecology, Germany 
Guy Poppy - University of Southampton, UK 
Anantanarayanan Raman - Charles Sturt University, Australia
Junji Takabayashi - Kyoto University, Japan 
 Heather Whitney - University of Britsol, UK 
 Gen-ichiro Arimura -  Tokyo University of Science, Japan
 
 
Prof. Dr Massimo Maffei, Editor-in-Chief 
Journal of Plant Interactions 
Prof. Massimo Maffei is Full Professor of Plant Physiology in the Department of Plant Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Turin.
Prof. Maffei is author of over 150 scientific papers, editor of four books, and author of several book chapters. He has been invited as Session Chairman at several international meetings in addition to regularly presenting invited lectures at international congresses.
Prof. Maffei is currently a member of the editorial team on Journal of Essential Oil Research and EPPOS, and regularly referees for three other internationally renowned journals.
 
Dr. Francesca Barbero is a researcher of the Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin.
Her research is mainly focused on the study of multitrophic interactions in systems involving plants, butterflies and ants, to shade light on basic mechanisms responsible for the origin, evolution and maintenance of such relationships.
Francesca Barbero is author of invited reviews as well as of many research papers, bilingual monography and book chapters. She is Associate Editor for Insect Conservation and Diversity, Physics Today’s review advisors for books, guest editor for a special issue titled “Plant-Insect Interactions" in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences, and peer-reviewer for many ISI journals. 
  
Francesca Barbero has been invited speaker at several international and national conferences and she is panelist for Romanian National Projects “Young Research Teams” and for the national prize "Young people and science".