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New Phytologist

Published on behalf of the New Phytologist Trust

Edited by:
Ian Woodward


ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2007: 8/152 (Plant Sciences)
Impact Factor: 5.249

New Phytologist offers rapid publication of high quality, original research in plant science. Falling within four sections - Physiology & Development, Environment, Interaction and Evolution - articles cover topics that range from intracellular processes through to global environmental change. Letters, commentary and opinion are encouraged in the Forum section and regular Special Issues highlight key areas of current research. The journal is owned by a not-for-profit organization that is dedicated to the promotion of plant science.

TopNews and Announcements

Latest Issue 2008
Look what's in the latest issue (Volume. 180, Issue 4) 

Forthcoming New Phytologist Symposia for 2008/2009:
The ecology of ectomycorrhizal fungi
CEFE-CNRS, Montpellier, France 10-12 December 2008
Effectors in plant-microbe interactions
INRA Versailles, Research Centre, Paris, France, 13-16 September 2009
Carbon Cycling in tropical ecosystems
Yanling Hotel, Guangzhou, China 17-20 November 2009

Plant Adaptation Special Issue
Call for papers 

Unwrapping the Laccaria genome Feature Issue
Issue 180:2 contains a range of papers devoted to analysis of the first genome sequence from an ectomycorrhizal fungus, Laccaria bicolor. Read the introductory editorial by Nick Talbot. View the issue online.

New Phytologist Virtual Special Issue
'Plant ecological strategy axes in leaf and wood traits' edited by Peter Curtis and David Ackerly. View this online.

Plant Systems Biology feature
Issue 179:3 contains a range of papers on plant systems biology. Read the introductory commentary by Nick Monk and Malcolm Bennett. View the issue online.

Special Issue from The Plant Journal
Read The Plant Journal's special issue on 'Harnessing Plant Biomass for Biofuels and Biomaterials' edited by Professors Christoph Benning and Eran Pichersky. View the special issue online

NEW: New Phytologist has upgraded its online submission system to Manuscript Central V3. This will bring added benefits to authors, editors and reviewers of the journal. Read the Author Guidelines for more information.

New Phytologist on Physiology & Development: supporting the emergence of new disciplines within the field and the application of new techniques to existing questions in the plant sciences, New Phytologist is launching a new section dedicated to Physiology & Development. Read more in our January 2007 Editorial

Articles published online ahead of print
Articles which have been fully copy-edited and peer-reviewed are published online through our Early View feature before the print edition of this journal is published.

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.

Blackwell goes CarbonNeutral®
Blackwell Publishing is the first publisher to become CarbonNeutral®. Read more about the initiatives we have signed up to with The CarbonNeutral Company here.

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).

Attention ASPB members
Members of the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) can subscribe to the online version of New Phytologist for just $37 in 2008! Simply select the relevant subscription rate and the complete the online form to subscribe.

Attention ESA and ESEB members
Members of the Ecological Society of America or the European Society for Evolutionary Biology can subscribe to print plus the online version of New Phytologist from just $187 / €153 in 2008! Simply select the relevant subscription rate and the complete the online form to subscribe.

TopHighlights


Tansley Review Articles:
Tansley Review articles are published in most issues of New Phytologist and are made free content online for readers to enjoy.
Click here to search and download all Tansley Review articles.

Other Free Papers to Download:
January 2008 Editorial: A New Year in plant science
A brief history of New Phytologist

'Top Articles' 2007
The following three articles were the most downloaded articles in New Phytologist during 2007:

  1. Seed dormancy and the control of germination 
    William E. Finch-Savage, Gerhard Leubner-Metzger
  2. The likely impact of elevated [CO2], nitrogen deposition, increased temperature and management on carbon sequestration in temperate and boreal forest ecosystems: a literature review
    Riitta Hyvonen et al.
  3. Zinc in plants
    Martin R. Broadley, Philip J. White, John P. Hammond, Ivan Zelko, Alexander Lux

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