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The Plant Journal

Published in association with the Society for Experimental Biology

Edited by:
Editor-in-Chief: Harry Klee
Managing Editor: Irene Hames


ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2007: 6/152 (Plant Sciences)
Impact Factor: 6.751

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 33 calendar days!

TopNews and Announcements

NEW POLICY: The Plant Journal now has a strict restriction policy on the length of articles. Any manuscripts that contain more than 7000 words (to include all parts except the References and Supplementary Material) will be returned to the authors without editorial or external review. See Harry Klee's Editorial for further details.

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Thank you to our Reviewers
The Plant Journal would like to thank all of the 1179 people who helped review manuscripts in 2007. 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.

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).

TPJ paper is Top Cited in field
The following paper, published in The Plant Journal in April 2005 (42:2), was the top cited paper in the plant biotech field in 2006 (56 citations) according to an article in Nature Biotechnology (September 2007, 25(9), p961). Click on the link below to view the full paper.
Functional genomics by integrated analysis of metabolome and transcriptome of Arabidopsis plants over-expressing an MYB transcription factor by Takayuki Tohge, Yasutaka Nishiyama, Masami Yokota Hirai, Mitsuru Yano, Jun-ichiro Nakajima, Motoko Awazuhara, Eri Inoue, Hideki Takahashi, Dayan B. Goodenowe, Masahiko Kitayama, Masaaki Noji, Mami Yamazaki, Kazuki Saito

The Plant Journal: one of the 'hottest journals of the millennium'!
The Plant Journal has been named one of the 'hottest journals of the millennium (so far)' in a recent ScienceWatch report. Click here for further information

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

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

The Plant Journal: One of the Top Journals for Publishing Arabidopsis Research!
The Plant Journal has been at the forefront of publishing work on Arabidopsis research since its launch in 1991. Now the journal has been highlighted in an ISI® Special Topics report as one of the top journals in publishing the most highly-cited papers on 'Arabidopsis and plant disease resistance' over the past 10 years. The report shows that The Plant Journal published 3 of the 25 most highly cited papers in this area between 1992 and 2002 - more than any other plant science journal. These three articles were:

A procedure for mapping Arabidopsis mutations using co-dominant ecotype-specific PCR-based markers
Andrzej Konieczny and Frederick M. Ausubel
Floral dip: a simplified method for Agrobacterium -mediated transformation of Arabidopsis thaliana
Steven J. Clough and Andrew F. Bent
Recombinant inbred lines for mapping RFLP and phenotypic markers in Arabidopsis thaliana
Clare Lister and Caroline Dean

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

 

TopHighlights

Special Issues:
Harnessing Plant Biomass for Biofuels and Biomaterials - Special Issue Now Available
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 - new issue now available
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 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.
-Harry Klee, Editor-in-Chief

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

Trans-specific gene silencing between host and parasitic plants
Alexey A. Tomilov, Natalia B. Tomilova, Tadeusz Wroblewski, Richard Michelmore and John I. Yoder

Overexpression of the lemon basil a-zingiberene synthase gene increases both mono- and sesquiterpene contents in tomato fruit
Rachel Davidovich-Rikanati, Efraim Lewinsohn, Einat Bar, Yoko Iijima, Eran Pichersky, Yaron Sitrit

26S proteasome regulatory particle mutants have increased oxidative stress tolerance
Jasmina Kurepa, Akio Toh-e, Jan A. Smalle

Auto-regulation of the circadian slave oscillator component AtGRP7 and regulation of its targets is impaired by a single RNA recognition motif point mutation
Jan C. Schöning, Corinna Streitner, Damian R. Page, Sven Hennig, Kenko Uchida, Eva Wolf, Masaki Furuya, Dorothee Staiger

Transgenic, non-isoprene emitting poplars don't like it hot
Katja Behnke, Barbara Ehlting, Markus Teuber, Martina Bauerfeind, Sandrine Louis, Robert Hänsch, Andrea Polle, Jörg Bohlmann and Jörg-Peter Schnitzler

MAX2 participates in an SCF complex which acts locally at the node to suppress shoot branching
Petra Stirnberg, Ian J. Furner and H. M. Ottoline Leyser

Making sense of nectar scents: the effects of nectar secondary metabolites on floral visitors of Nicotiana attenuata
Danny Kessler and Ian T. Baldwin

The Maize Mucronate Mutation is a Deletion in the 16-kDa y-Zein Gene that Induces the Unfolded Protein Response
Cheol-Soo Kim, Bryan Gibbon, Jeffrey Gillikin, Brian Larkins, Rebecca Boston, Rudolf Jung

A small acidic protein 1 (SMAP1) mediates responses of the arabidopsis root to the synthetic auxin 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid
Abidur Rahman, Akari Nakasone, Tory Chhun, Chiharu Ooura, Kamal Biswas, Hirofumi Uchimiya, Seiji Tsurumi, Tobias Baskin , Atsushi Tanaka, Yutaka Oono, Dr. Yutaka Oono

Identification and characterization of Arabidopsis gibberellin receptors
Masatoshi Nakajima, Asako Shimada, Yoshiyuki Takashi, Young-Cheon Kim, Seung-Hyun Park, Miyako eguchi-Tanaka, Hiroyuki Suzuki, Etsuko Kato, Satoshi Iuchi, Masatomo Kobayashi, Tatsuya Maeda, Makoto Matsuoka, Isomaro Yamaguchi

ABERRANT TESTA SHAPE encodes a KANADI family member, linking polarity determination to separation and growth of Arabidopsis ovule integuments
Jessica Messmer McAbee, Theresa Hill, Debra Skinner, Anat Izhaki, Bernard Hauser, Robert Meister, G. Venugopala Reddy 8) Elliot Meyerowitz, John Bowman, Charles Gasser

Evidence for folate salvage reactions in plants
Giuseppe Orsomando, Gale Bozzo, Rocío Díaz de la Garza, Gilles Basset, Eoin Quinlivan, Valeria Naponelli, Fabrice Rébeillé, Stéphane Ravanel, Jesse Gregory, Andrew Hanson

An in vivo internal deletion in the N-terminus region of Arabidopsis cystathionine γ-synthase results in CGS expression that is insensitive to methionine
Yael Hacham, Gadi Schuster and Rachel Amir

Elimination of deleterious mutations in plastid genomes by gene conversion
Olga Khakhlova and Ralph Bock

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