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The Plant Journal

Published in association with the Society for Experimental Biology

Edited by:
Editor-in-Chief: Christoph Benning, Managing Editor: Irene Hames


ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 6/155 Plant Sciences
Impact Factor: 6.493

Publishing the best original research papers in all key areas of modern plant biology from the world's leading laboratories, The Plant Journal provides a dynamic forum for this ever growing international research community.

Plant science research is now at the forefront of research in the biological sciences, with breakthroughs in our understanding of fundamental processes in plants matching those in other organisms. The impact of molecular genetics and the availability of model and crop species can be seen in all aspects of plant biology. For publication in The Plant Journal the research must provide a highly significant new contribution to our understanding of plants and be of general interest to the plant science community. All areas of plant biology are welcome and the experimental approaches used can be wide-ranging.

Average time from submission to first decision is just 30 days!

TopNews and Announcements

Editorial - January 2010
Click here to read an Editorial from the New Editor-in-Chief: Christoph Benning

Podcasts from The Plant Journal

Thank you to our Reviewers
The Plant Journal would like to thank all of the 1169 people who helped review manuscripts in 2008. We greatly appreciate the time and effort they put into this.

Author Benefits
The Plant Journal does not charge authors any submission fees, publication fees or page charges and colour costs are extremely competitive at £150 for the first colour figure and £50 for each subsequent figure. In addition, our online manuscript submission system and Early View article-by-article publishing policy have led to extremely rapid submission to decision and publication times.

Online Open
Authors of articles in this journal can now choose to make their articles open access and available free for all readers through the payment of an author fee. Read more. Authors are asked not to inform the Editorial Office or Editors prior to acceptance whether or not they intend to take up the Online Open option.

NIH Public Access Mandate
For those interested in the Wiley-Blackwell policy on the NIH Public Access Mandate, please visit our policy statement.

Free Access in the Developing World
Free online access to this journal is available within institutions in the developing world through the HINARI initiative with the World Health Organization (WHO), the AGORA initiative with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the OARE Initiative (Online Access to Research in the Environment) with the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).

COPE - Committee on Publication Ethics
This journal is a member of and subscribes to the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics. For more information, visit: www.publicationethics.org.uk

Attention ASPB Members
Members of the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) can subscribe to the online version of The Plant Journal for just $38 in 2009! Simply select the relevant subscription rate and the complete the online form to subscribe.

TopHighlights

Special Issues:
Harnessing Plant Biomass for Biofuels and Biomaterials - Special Issue available here
The Special Issue presents a series of invited peer-reviewed articles that describe the processes that plants can or could use to convert their fixed carbon into fuels or other useful products. The articles were commissioned to provide an authoritative scientific backdrop to inform discussion in debates on finding alternative affordable and renewable sources of carbon.

Techniques for Molecular Analysis
The Plant Journal is dedicated to publishing special 'methods' issues on techniques for molecular analysis. These issues are a collection of authoritative reviews on techniques of broad interest to the plant biology community, written as 'how-to' articles giving in-depth guidance and numerous practical tips. These issues are made free online for all to access.
Read the third Techniques Issue (53:4), published February 2008
Read the second Techniques issue (45:4), published February 2006
Read the first Techniques issue (39:5), published September 2004

Free Access to Plant Journal articles:
All articles published in issues of The Plant Journal more than 12 months previously are made free content online.

Featured Articles:
The Plant Journal strives to publish outstanding scientific articles from all of the disciplines of plant biology. To demonstrate that commitment, we provide free and immediate access to a set of Featured Articles. These articles have been chosen by the Editors of The Plant Journal as being representative of the quality research published in the journal. Our intent is to continuously update this site with links to papers that we feel embody the spirit of the journal. Papers covering the range of topics that we publish have been selected for the quality of science as well as potential broad appeal to our audience. We are very proud of the work that we publish and hope that you will become frequent visitors to this site. We also hope that you will have the opportunity to see your own work appear here in the future.

Click on the titles below to read the Featured Articles published in The Plant Journal:

TOMATO AGAMOUS-LIKE 1 is a component of the fruit ripening regulatory network
Maxim Itkin, Heike Seybold, Dario Breitel, Ilana Rogachev, Sagit Meir, Asaph Aharoni

Cell wall glucomannan in Arabidopsis is synthesised by CSLA glycosyltransferases, and influences the progression of embryogenesis Florence Goubet, Christopher J. Barton, Jennifer C. Mortimer, Xiaolan Yu, Zhinong Zhang, Godfrey P. Miles, Jenny Richens, Aaron H. Liepman, Keith Seffen, Paul Dupree

The analysis of entire gene promoters by surface plasmon resonance
Edwige Moyroud, Mathieu C. A. Reymond, Cécile Hamès, François Parcy, Charles P. Scutt

Selective recruitment of proteins to 5' cap complexes during the growth cycle in Arabidopsis
Maxwell S. Bush, Andrew P. Hutchins, Alexandra M.E. Jones, Mike J. Naldrett, Artur Jarmolowski, Clive W. Lloyd, John H. Doonan

POT1-independent single-strand telomeric DNA binding activities in Brassicaceae
Eugene V. Shakirov, Thomas D. McKnight and Dorothy E. Shippen

Plant extracellular ATP signalling by plasma membrane NADPH oxidase and Ca2+ channels
Vadim Demidchik, Zhonglin Shang, Ryoung Shin, Elinor Thompson, Lourdes Rubio, Anuphon Laohavisit, Jennifer C. Mortimer, Stephen Chivasa, Antoni R. Slabas, Beverley J. Glover, Daniel P. Schachtman, Sergey N. Shabala, Julia M. Davies

Roles of polarity determinants in ovule development
Dior R. Kelley, Debra J. Skinner and Charles S. Gasser

Enzymatic treatments reveal differential capacities for xylan recognition and degradation in primary and secondary plant cell walls
Cécile Hervé, Artur Rogowski, Harry J. Gilbert, J. Paul Knox

Transposition of a bacterial insertion sequence in chloroplasts
Stefan Kohl, Ralph Bock

Resetting and regulation of FLOWERING LOCUS C expression during Arabidopsis reproductive development
Jean Choi, Youbong Hyun, Min-Jeong Kang, Hye In Yun, Jae-Young Yun, Clare Lister, Caroline Dean, Richard M. Amasino, Bosl Noh, Yoo-Sun Noh, Yeonhee Choi

The BTB ubiquitin ligases ETO1, EOL1 and EOL2 act collectively to regulate ethylene biosynthesis in Arabidopsis by controlling type-2 ACC synthase levels
Matthew J. Christians, Derek J. Gingerich, Maureen Hansen, Brad M. Binder, Joseph J. Kieber, Richard D. Vierstra

Extracellular transport and integration of plant secretory proteins into pathogen-induced cell wall compartments
Dorit Meyer, Simone Pajonk, Cristina Micali, Richard O'Connell, Paul Schulze-Lefert

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