期刊名称：PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
The aim of Plant Biotechnology Journal is to publish substantial, world-class primary research articles in applied plant science, involving applications of plant biotechnology and plant biology across all industrial sectors.
Publishing original research, Plant Biotechnology Journal reports on significant new contributions to the field, providing a forum for the best papers in applied plant science. Published articles report novel and exciting findings in strategic research in plant biotechnology, combining curiosity-driven studies with the potential for application.
Applications may involve agriculture, horticulture, food and food-processing, paper, pulp and timber, pharmaceuticals, medical, phytoremediation, marine applications, non-food uses of plants and industrial crops. With the rapid developments in genomic sequencing and analysis, and availability of new technologies to analyse functional genomics and proteomics, the combined powers of genetics, biochemistry and cell biology are leading to the very rapid production of new information. Plant Biotechnology Journal welcomes the results of these programmes when the outcome is likely to enhance the application of plant science to the above industries.
The journal will not publish 'improvements' to technologies such as improved transformation efficiencies of particular cultivars/species.
Principal areas covered in Plant Biotechnology Journal include:
- Gene and genome analysis: analysis of genes and gene networks showing the potential for industrial application; gene expression studies; biotech plant breeding, e.g. marker assisted breeding.
- Transgenic technologies: Production and analysis of transgenic crops; gene insertion studies; gene silencing; factors affecting gene expression; post-translational analysis; molecular farming; field trial analysis; commercialisation of modified crops; safety and regulatory affairs
- Functional genomics: bioinformatics; gene function studies for applied uses
- Comparative genomics: applications to crop species; use of current crop databases
- Physiological studies: pathways relevant to an application; secondary metabolites; manipulations of physiology
- Developmental studies: developmental mechanisms leading to a further understanding of an industrial use of plants.
Plant Biotechnology Journal publishes novel, peer reviewed primary research articles, concentrating on the areas described above, and concise reviews in topical areas. Special issues will be considered in particular subject areas, commissioned by the editors. We promise rapid publication (within twelve weeks of acceptance) and speedy responses to authors, with all papers being critically reviewed within four weeks of receipt by at least two independent referees. The peer review process, managed by a fully electronic editorial office, ensure that articles are both rigorous and readable.
In addition to the usual black and white or colour photographs to present data, Plant Biotechnology Journal provides the opportunity to publish supplementary material via its website, such as large data sets, extra colour illustrations, bibliographies, videos, or any other material for which insufficient space in the journal is available. Please contact the Editor-in-Chief for details.
Instructions to Authors
Online submission of manuscripts is now available at http://plantbiotechjournal.manuscriptcentral.com. Instructions on how to prepare your manuscript for online submission are given on site and below. Please ensure that you follow the Journal¡¯s instructions carefully before you submit your manuscript.
As of 1 January 2004, Plant Biotechnology Journal will ONLY accept manuscripts submitted in electronic form. Any articles submitted in paper format will be returned to the authors for re-submission.
Online:
The Plant Biotechnology Journal only accepts submission of manuscripts online at http://plantbiotechjournal.manuscriptcentral.com. This enables the quickest possible review and allows online manuscript tracking. Manuscript submission online can be in Word document (.doc), Rich Text Format (.rtf), Portable Document Format (.pdf) or PostScript (.ps). Each of these file formats will be automatically converted to PDF for reviewing. Figures can be embedded in the native word processor file or may be uploaded separately in one of the following formats: GIF (.gif), JPEG (.jpg), TIFF (.tif), EPS (.eps). Figures uploaded separately in these file formats will be automatically converted to small jpegs for reviewing. Other file formats may be uploaded, but these will not be converted to an easily opened format and Editors and Referees will require the necessary software to view these files.
Full upload instructions and support are available online from the submission site via the 'Get Help Now' button. You can also email for online submission support. Please note that you should submit your covering letter or comments to the Editor-in-Chief, when prompted online. Please do not duplicate your submission by submitting online and by post.
Please note that following acceptance of your manuscript for publication in Plant Biotechnology Journal, you will be required to supply your manuscript and figures on disk (for disk instructions see Disk Submission below).
Revised manuscripts must be submitted to the Editorial Office within two months of authors being notified of conditional acceptance pending satisfactory revision. Full instructions for submission of revised manuscripts can be found in the "Submission of revised manuscripts" section below. Authors resubmitting manuscripts should follow the same procedure as for submission of new manuscripts. If accepted, papers become the copyright of the Journal. No page charges will be levied.
All queries should be directed to the Editorial Office:
Adrienne Whitty
Plant Biotechnology Journal
Editorial Office
School of Biological Sciences
Woodland Road
University of Bristol
Bristol
BS8 1UG
UK
Tel: +44 (0)117 9287883
Fax: +44 (0)117 9257374
e-mail: plant-biotechj@bristol.ac.uk
Papers are accepted on the understanding that no substantial part has been, or will be, published elsewhere. Publication of a paper in Plant Biotechnology Journal implies that authors will distribute freely to researchers, for non-commercial purposes, all plant cultivars, cell lines, DNA, antibodies and other similar materials that were used in the experiments reported. Seeds of mutants described must be deposited at the appropriate stock centre and accession numbers provided.
Presentation of manuscripts
Only manuscripts in English will be published. Spelling should conform to that in The Concise Oxford Dictionary or Websters New Collegiate Dictionary. All unusual or handwritten symbols should be identified. Care should be taken to differentiate between certain letters and numbers (e.g. the letter O and zero, the letter I and the number 1).
It is important to differentiate between genes and proteins. All gene names and loci should be italic; proteins should be upright.
All sections of the manuscript should be double-spaced on one side only of A4 or American quarto paper with margins of at least 30 mm all round. The title page should include: the full title of the paper; the full names of all the authors; the name(s) and address(es) of the institution(s) at which the work was carried out (the present addresses of the authors, if different from the above, should appear in a footnote); the name, address, telephone and fax numbers and e-mail address of the author to whom all correspondence and proofs should be sent; the e-mail addresses of all the authors if possible; a suggested running title of not more than 50 characters, including spaces; six key words to aid indexing; accession numbers for the EMBL sequence database and seed stock if required; word count.
Generally, all papers should be divided into the following sections and appear in the order: (1) Summary, not exceeding 250 words, (2) Introduction, (3) Results, (4) Discussion, (5) Experimental procedures, (6) Acknowledgements, (7) References, (8) Tables, (9) Figure legends, (10) Figures. The Results and Discussion sections may be combined and may contain subheadings. Experimental procedures should be sufficiently detailed to enable the experiments to be reproduced. Trade names should be capitalised and the manufacturers name and address given.
All pages must be numbered consecutively from the title page, and include the acknowledgements, references, tables, and figure legends.
Submission of revised manuscripts
Revised manuscripts must be submitted within 2 months of authors being notified of conditional acceptance pending satisfactory revision. Revised manuscripts submitted after this time will be considered as completely new submissions, and be subject again to the full review procedure. This time limit will be rigidly adhered to except under unusual circumstances, which must be explained in full, in writing, to both the Handling Editor and the Managing Editor.
Revised manuscripts must be in their final form when submitted, using red font to indicate the revised portions of your manuscript. The proofs received later are for correction of typographical errors only. They should not be used for final changes to articles; such changes must be made to the manuscript before it goes to the publishers. Major alterations to the text at proof stage will be charged to the author and may delay publication.
Manuscripts should be checked very carefully for correct designation of genes and proteins. It is important to differentiate between genes and proteins. Gene names and loci should be italic, proteins should be upright.
In addition to submitting your revised manuscript on-line, the Editorial office requires you to send your revised manuscript text and good hard copies of artwork, together with high resolution digital graphics (GIF, TIFF, etc.) on either a 3.5 inch high-density diskette or suitably formatted CD All revised manuscripts must be supplied with a copy on disk (see "Disk submission of manuscripts" section below). Files saved from the majority of word-processing packages are acceptable.
It is essential that authors return one signed copy of the Exclusive Licence Form to the Editorial Office with their revised manuscripts. A completed colour work agreement form must also be returned with the revised manuscript if it contains colour. Failure to return the forms will delay the publication of manuscripts if they are accepted.
Exclusive Licence Form
Authors will be required to sign an Exclusive Licence Form (ELF) for all papers accepted for publication. Signature of the ELF is a condition of publication and papers will not be passed to the publisher for production unless a signed form has been received. Please note that signature of the Exclusive Licence Form does not affect ownership of copyright in the material. (Government employees need to complete the Author Warranty sections, although copyright in such cases does not need to be assigned). After submission authors will retain the right to publish their paper in various medium/circumstances (please see the form for further details). To assist authors an appropriate form will be supplied by the editorial office. Alternatively, authors may like to download a copy of the form Here.
Supplementary Material
Supplementary Material, such as data sets or additional figures or tables, that will not be published in the print edition of the journal, but which will be viewable via the online edition, can be submitted.
It should be clearly stated at the time of submission that the Supplementary Material is intended to be made available through the online edition. Supplementary Material will be made available in electronic form free of charge either through these Web pages or on request from Blackwell Publishing. Alternatively, if the size or format of the Supplementary Material is such that it cannot be accommodated on the journals Web site, the author agrees to make the Supplementary Material available free of charge on a permanent Web site, to which links will be set up from the Plant Biotechnology Journal Web site. The author must advise Blackwell Publishing if the URL of the Web site where the Supplementary Material is located changes. The content of the Supplementary Material must not be altered after the paper has been accepted for publication.
The availability of Supplementary Material should be indicated in the main manuscript by a paragraph, to appear after the References, headed Supplementary Material and providing titles of figures, tables, etc. The Supplementary Material is an integral part of the article and will be reviewed accordingly. In order to protect reviewer anonymity, material posted on the authors web site cannot be reviewed.
Disk submission of manuscripts
When supplying your manuscript on disk, please follow these instructions and return the disk, File Description Form and hard copy of your manuscript to the Editorial Office.
- Final version of the hard copy and the floppy disk must be the same. It is essential that the disk contains any last-minute changes.
- File name(s) should be given with the disk, with separate file names for: text, references, tables, figure captions.
- If possible, files should be supplied in both word processor and ASCII formats.
- Be consistent. Use the same presentation for all headings, etc. that are to appear the same in the finished printing.
- Tables may not be set from disk, and it is essential that an adequate hard copy is supplied.
- Advise us about any matter that you think could cause a problem.
- A File Description Form is available to print out or can be obtained from the Editorial Office.
- Do not use the carriage return (enter) at the end of lines within a paragraph.
- Disks will not be returned to authors.
Units and abbreviations
Syst¨¨me International (SI) units should be used, as given in Units, Symbols and Abbreviations, published by the Royal Society of Medicine Services Ltd, 1 Wimpole Street, London W1M 8AE, UK. Abbreviations should be given in words the first time they are used.
Scientific names
Complete scientific names should be given when organisms are first mentioned. The generic name may subsequently be abbreviated to the initial.
References
References should be cited in the text by author and date, e.g. Shah and Klessig (1999). Joint authors should be referred to by et al. if there are more than two, e.g. Sambrook et al. (1989). More than one paper from the same author(s) in the same year must be identified by the letters a, b, c, etc., placed after the year of publication. Listings of references in the text should be alphabetical, e.g. (Sambrook et al., 1989; Shah and Klessig, 1999). At the end of the paper, references should be listed alphabetically according to the first named author. The full titles of papers, chapters and books should be given, the abbreviated names of journals, with the first and last page numbers.
Examples
Lacomme, C. and Santa Cruz, S. (1999) Bax-induced cell death in tobacco is similar to the hypersensitive response. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA, 96, 7956-7961.
Sambrook, J., Fritsch, E.F. and Maniatis, T. (1989) Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual, 2nd edn. Cold Spring Harbor: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.
Shah, J. and Klessig, D.F. (1999) Salicylic acid: signal perception and transduction. In: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plant Hormones (Hooykaas, P.P.J., Hall, M.A. and Libbenga, K.R., eds), pp. 513-541. New York: Elsevier Science.
Work that has not been accepted for publication and personal communications should not appear in the reference list, but may be referred to in the text. It is the authors responsibility to obtain permission from colleagues to include their work as a personal communication.
Figures
Two sets of all figures and photographs should be supplied and submitted as either laser copies or high-quality glossy prints as appropriate in the size that they will appear in the Journal. With the exception of composite photographs suitable for full-page reproduction (maximum width, including lettering, 16.8 cm), all other figures should be set to a maximum width of 8 cm (including all lettering). Labelling on the figures should be in 8pt Helvetica if possible. Figure sections should be designated with lower case letters. Magnification bars should be given on electron and light microscope photographs. All figures should be identified with the figure number and authors names in soft pencil or on labels on the back, and the top edge should be indicated.
Figure legends should be typed on sheets separate to those containing the figures and contain sufficient information to be understood without reference to the text, but should not contain methods. Each should begin with a short title for the figure. All symbols and abbreviations used in the figures should be explained. In the full text online edition of the journal, figure legends may be truncated in abbreviated links to the full screen version. Therefore, the first 100 characters of any legend should inform the reader of key aspects of the figure.
The Journal welcomes colour photographs. Under exceptional circumstances, authors may request waiver of these charges. This must be requested at the time of submission of the manuscript, and authors must justify to the Editors that the inclusion of colour figures is essential for interpretation of the results presented. Review authors should note that colour figures are free of charge in reviews.
It is the policy of Plant Biotechnology Journal for authors to pay the full cost for the reproduction of their colour artwork. Therefore, please note that if there is colour artwork in your manuscript when it is accepted for publication, Blackwell Publishing require you to complete and return a colour work agreement form before your paper can be published. This form can be downloaded as a PDF* from the internet. The web address for the form is:
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/SN_Sub2000_X_CoW.pdf
If you are unable to download the form, please contact Adrienne Whitty at:
Plant Biotechnology Office
School of Biological Sciences
University of Bristol
Woodland Road
Bristol
BS8 1UG
Tel: +44 (0)117 928 7883
Fax: +44 (0)117 925 7374
Email: plant-biotechj@bristol.ac.uk
And they will be able to email or FAX a form to you.
Once completed, please return the form to the Editorial Office at the above address.
Any article received by Blackwell Publishing with colour work will not be published until the form has been returned.
* To read PDF files, you must have Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. If you do not have this program, this is available as a free download from the following web address: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
Electronic artwork
We would like to receive your artwork in electronic form. If you are unable to submit in the required format, please send good quality originals as detailed above. Please save vector graphics (e.g. line artwork) in Encapsulated Postscript Format (.eps), and bitmap files (e.g. half-tones) in Tagged Image File Format (.tif). TIFF files should be supplied at a minimum resolution of 300 ppi (pixels per inch) at the final size at which they are to appear in the journal. Colour files should be in CMYK format. Detailed information on our digital illustration standards is available at: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/authors/digill.asp
Tables
Tables should be typed on separate sheets. They should have a brief descriptive title and be self-explanatory. No vertical rules should be used. Units should appear in parentheses in the column headings, not in the body of the table. Repeated words or numerals on successive lines should be written in full.
Proofs
Proofs will be sent via e-mail as an Acrobat PDF (portable document format) file. Therefore, the corresponding author should supply their email address when they submit their manuscript. The e-mail server must be able to accept attachments up to 4 MB in size. Acrobat Reader will be required in order to read this file. This software can be downloaded (free of charge) from the following Web site:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readermain.html
This will enable the file to be opened, read on screen, and printed out in order for any corrections to be added. Further instructions will be sent with the proof. Proofs will be posted if no e-mail address is available; in your absence, please arrange for a colleague to access your e-mail to retrieve the proofs.
Major alterations to the text will be charged to the author and may delay publication.
Offprints
A PDF offprint of each article will be supplied free. Additional offprints may be purchased in units of 100 if ordered on the form supplied with the proofs.
Microarray data
The Plant Biotechnology Journal has adopted the microarray data guidelines developed by the Microarray Gene Expression Data society (MGED) and requires that all authors using microarray data in their manuscript submit a complete data set to one of two databases prior to manuscripts submission: the National Centre for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) or the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) ArrayExpress repository. The procedure is mandatory for all papers using microarray data and submitted after 1 January 2006
Registration of sequences
New nucleotide sequence data reported in papers published in the Plant Biotechnology Journal must be submitted and deposited in the DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank databases and accession numbers obtained. Any accepted manuscript that does not have such numbers by the page proof stage will not be published until the numbers are provided. Full details on obtaining accession numbers, is given in the final issue of each volume of the Journal or can be obtained on request from the Editorial Office. Data submitted to EMBL will be shared with other international databases. Submission to any one of the three collaborating databanks is sufficient to ensure data entry in all.
Cover photograph
Photographs of high quality suitable for the cover of the Plant Biotechnology Journal are welcomed. They should be sent to the Editorial Office and be accompanied by a brief descriptive summary. It is preferred, but not essential, that these should be related to submitted papers.
OnlineEarly Announcement
We are happy to announce that Plant Biotechnology Journal is now part of the Blackwell Synergy OnlineEarly service. Articles will now be published on a regular basis online in advance of their appearance in a print issue. These articles are fully peer reviewed, edited and complete ¨C they only lack page numbers and volume/issue details ¨C and are considered fully published from the date they first appear online. This date is shown with the article in the online table of contents. Because OnlineEarly articles are considered fully complete, please bear in mind that changes cannot be made to an article after the online publication date even if it is still yet to appear in print.
The articles are available as full text HTML or PDF and can be cited as references by using their Digital Object Identifier (DOI) numbers. For more information on DOIs, please see http://www.doi.org/faq.html
To view all the articles currently available, please visit the journal homepage on http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/ and simply click on the 'OnlineEarly' area at the top of the list of issues available to view. On print publication, the article will be removed from the OnlineEarly area and will appear instead in the relevant online issue, complete with page numbers and volume/issue details. No other changes will be made.
The implementation of OnlineEarly for Plant Biotechnology Journal represents our commitment to get manuscripts available to view to the academic community as quickly as possible, reducing time to publication considerably without sacrificing quality or completeness.
Editorial Board
Editorial Office:
Mrs Adrienne Whitty
Plant Biotechnology Journal Editorial Office
School of Biological Sciences
University of Bristol
Woodland Road
Bristol BS8 1UG
UK
Tel: +44 (0) 117 928 7883
Fax: +44 (0) 117 925 7374
E-mail: plant-biotechj@bristol.ac.uk Editor-in-Chief:
Keith J. Edwards
Functional Genomics Unit
OB120
School of Biological Sciences
University of Bristol
Woodland Road
Bristol BS8 1UG
UK
Tel: +44 (0) 117 331 7079
Fax: +44 (0) 117 331 7099
E-mail: K.J.Edwards@bristol.ac.uk Editors:
Dr Jim Beynon, Horticulture Research International, UK
E-mail: jim.beynon@hri.ac.uk
Prof. Robert Birch, Botany Department, The University of Queensland, Australia
E-mail: R.Birch@botany.uq.edu.au
Prof. Henry Daniell, Dept. Molecular Biology & Microbiology, University of Central Florida, USA
E-mail: daniell@mail.ucf.edu
Prof. Loic Faye, Bat Ext. Biologie, UFR des Sciences, France
E-mail: lfaye@crihan.fr
Prof. Robert J Henry, Centre for Plant Conservation Genetics, Southern Cross University, Australia
E-mail: rhenry@scu.edu.au
Dr Elizabeth E Hood, Research and Technology Transfer, Arkansas State University, AR, USA
E-mail: ehood@astate.edu
Dr Paul Quick, Department of Animal & Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK
E-mail: p.quick@sheffield.ac.uk
Advisory Board:
Professor Malcolm Bennett, Plant Science Division, University of Nottingham, UK
Dr Vicky Buchanan-Wollaston, Department of Plant Genetics and Biotechnology, Horticulture Research International, UK
Dr Malcolm Campbell, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, UK
Prof. Jim Dunwell, Department of Agricultural Botany, The University of Reading, UK
Jim Giovannoni, USDA Plant, Soil and Nutrition Laboratory, Cornell University, USA
Stephen Goff, Torrey Mesa Research Institute-Syngenta, San Diego, USA
Rebecca Grumet, Department of Horticulture, Michigan State University, USA
Dr Maud Hinchee, ArborGen, USA
Dr Mike Holdsworth, Plant Sciences Division, University of Nottingham, UK
Prof. Robert B Horsch, Monsanto, USA
Dirk Inz¨¦, Dept of Plant Genetics, VIB/Universiteit Gent, Belgium
Huw Jones, Rothamsted Research, UK
Richard Michelmore, Department of Vegetable Crops, University of California, USA
Francisco Salamini, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Zuechtungsforschung, Germany
Simon Santa-Cruz, Horticulture Research International, UK
Renate Schmidt, Max-Planck-Institut f¨¹r Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, Germany
Andrew Sharpe PhD, Molecular Genetics Section, Saskatoon Research Centre, Saskatoon
Professor Fumio Takaiwa, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Japan
Ben Vosman, Plant Research International B.V., The Netherlands
Dr Robbie Waugh, Genome Dynamics, Scottish Crop Research Institute, Dundee, U
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