期刊名称：PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Aims and Scope
Plant Biotechnology Journal is published by Wiley-Blackwell in association with the Society for Experimental Biology (SEB) and the Association of Applied Biology (AAB).
Plant Biotechnology Journal aims to publish high-impact original research and incisive reviews by leading researchers in applied plant science, with an emphasis on molecular plant sciences and their applications through plant biotechnology. We aim to provide a forum for the most important advances in this field, including curiosity-driven studies with the potential for application, strategic research in plant biotechnology, scientific analysis of key issues for the beneficial application of plant sciences and scientific analysis of the performance of the products of plant biotechnology in practice.
To be accepted for publication in Plant Biotechnology Journal, original research papers will need to present major new findings with conclusions thoroughly supported by critical experimental evidence and make a substantial contribution to plant biotechnology and/or scientific understanding. Reviews must accordingly provide a high level of insight and synthesis beyond a summary of published work. Sciences underpinning plant biotechnology include functional genomics and proteomics, molecular genetics, physiology, biochemistry and cell biology, with applications through molecular marker, mutant and transgenic approaches. Applications may involve agriculture, horticulture, forestry, biodiversity and conservation, enhanced yield, reduced environmental impact, phytoremediation, environmental sensors, improved foods and food-processing, biofuels and biomaterials including pharmaceuticals from terrestrial, aquatic or marine plant systems including industrial crops and natural systems. Examples of areas covered in Plant Biotechnology Journal include:
Gene, genome, proteome and metabolome analysis: molecular screening technologies; analysis of gene function from nucleotide sequence to phenotype; understanding of gene networks; applications ranging from metabolic engineering to marker assisted breeding.
Functional genomics, comparative genomics, bioinformatics and their applications in understanding and beneficial use of biodiversity, conservation, introgression, and rational design of improved genes for industrial plant improvement.
Transgenic technologies: production and analysis of transgenic crops; molecular farming; gene insertion, expression and silencing; field-testing and commercialisation of modified plants for agricultural, health, industrial and environmental benefits, improved foods, biofuels and biomaterials; safety and regulatory affairs.
Developmental, physiological and biochemical studies relevant to enhanced understanding of plant function, with potential for improvement of plant characteristics important to humans including the adaptation of plants to new environments.
Plant Biotechnology Journal seeks to achieve a balance between a speedy review process and providing authors with rigorous, objective and critical reviews. Submissions are initially reviewed by editors to select only those considered most promising for critical review by at least two independent experts. We promise speedy responses to authors, rigorous scientific review and rapid publication.
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.
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Instructions to Authors
Author Guidelines
Online submission of manuscripts is now available at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/plantbiotechjournal. 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.
Plant Biotechnology Journal only accepts submission of manuscripts online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/plantbiotechjournal. 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. 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.
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)117 928 7883
Fax: +44 (0)117 331 7985
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 in italics; 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 keywords 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.
Pre-acceptance English-language editing
Authors for whom English is a second language may choose to have their manuscript professionally edited before submission to improve the English. A list of independent suppliers of editing services can be found at www.authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/english_language.asp. All services are paid for and arranged by the author, and use of one of these services does not guarantee acceptance or preference for publication.
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 the Editor-in-Chief.
Revised manuscripts must be in their final form when submitted, using red font to indicate the revised portions of your manuscript. Note that the files submitted should be in their final format for publication as the files accepted within the Manuscript Central system will be the files which are supplied to the publisher. 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 in italics, proteins should be upright.
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.
Plagiarism
Authors must obtain permission to reproduce any copyright material, and include an acknowledgement of the source in their article. Authors should be aware that the unreferenced use of the published and unpublished ideas, writing or illustrations of others, from whatever source (including research grant applications), or submission of a complete paper under 'new' authorship in the same or a different language, constitutes plagiarism.
Supporting Information
Supporting Information, 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 Supporting Information is intended to be made available through the online edition. Supporting Information 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 Supporting Information is such that it cannot be accommodated on the journals Web site, the author agrees to make the Supporting Information 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 Supporting Information is located changes. The content of the Supporting Information must not be altered after the paper has been accepted for publication. Guidelines on what files are acceptable appear here.
The availability of Supporting Information should be indicated in the main manuscript by a paragraph, to appear after the References, headed Supporting Information and providing titles of figures, tables, etc. The Supporting Information 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.
Units and abbreviations
Système 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
We recommend the use of a tool such as EndNote or Reference Manager for reference management and formatting.
EndNote reference styles can be searched for here:
http://www.endnote.com/support/enstyles.asp
Reference Manager reference styles can be searched for here:
http://www.refman.com/support/rmstyles.asp
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
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.
Figure legends should be included at the end of the main document after the references 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)117 331 7985
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 expect to receive your artwork in electronic form. If you are unable to submit in the required format, please send two sets of figures as either laser copies or high-quality glossy prints as appropriate in the size that they will appear in the Journal. 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.authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/illustration.asp
Tables
Tables should be included on separate pages at the end of the main document, below any figure legends. 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
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 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 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.
OnlineOpen
This journal now offers OnlineOpen. This is a pay-to-publish service from Blackwell that offers authors whose papers are accepted for publication the opportunity to pay for their paper to become open access (i.e. free for all to view and download) via Wiley Interscience. Each OnlineOpen article will be subject to a one-off fee of $3000 to be met by or on behalf of the author in advance of publication. Upon online publication, the article (both full-text and PDF versions) will be available to all for viewing and download free of charge. The print version will also be branded as OnlineOpen and will draw attention to the fact that the paper can be downloaded free via Wiley Interscience.
Any authors wishing to send their paper OnlineOpen must complete the combined payment and copyright licence form available here (please note this form is for use with OnlineOpen material ONLY).
Once completed this form should be sent to the Editorial Office along with the rest of the manuscript materials at the time of acceptance or as soon as possible after that (preferably within 24 hours to avoid any delays in processing). Prior to acceptance there is no requirement to inform an Editorial Office that you intend to publish your paper OnlineOpen if you do not wish to.
Editorial Board
Editorial Information
Editorial Office:
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)117-331-7985
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)117-331-7985
K.J.Edwards@bristol.ac.uk
Editors:
Robert Birch, Botany Department, The University of Queensland, Australia
R.Birch@botany.uq.edu.au
Malcolm Campbell, Department of Cell & Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Canada
malcolm.campbell@utoronto.ca
Henry Daniell, Dept. Molecular Biology & Microbiology, University of Central Florida, USA
daniell@mail.ucf.edu
Loic Faye, Bat Ext. Biologie, UFR des Sciences, France
lfaye@crihan.fr
Robert J Henry, Centre for Plant Conservation Genetics, Southern Cross University, Australia
rhenry@scu.edu.au
Dominique Michaud, Department of Phytology, INAF, Canada
Dominique.Michaud@crh.ulaval.ca
Paul Quick, Department of Animal & Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK
p.quick@sheffield.ac.uk
Advisory Board:
Kailash Bansal, National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, India
Malcolm Bennett, Plant Science Division, University of Nottingham, UK
Vicky Buchanan-Wollaston, Department of Plant Genetics and Biotechnology, Horticulture Research International, UK
Maelor Davies, Kentucky Tobacco Research & Development Center, University of Kentucky, USA
Jim Dunwell, Department of Agricultural Botany, The University of Reading, UK
David Edwards, Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics, Institute for Molecular Biosciences and School of Land, Crop and Food Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
John W. Forster, Department of Natural Resources and Enviroment, La Trobe University, Australia
Jim Giovannoni, USDA Plant, Soil and Nutrition Laboratory, Cornell University, USA
Rebecca Grumet, Department of Horticulture, Michigan State University, USA
Maud Hinchee, ArborGen, USA
Mike Holdsworth, Plant Sciences Division, University of Nottingham, UK
Elizabeth E. Hood, Research and Technology Transfer, Arkansas State University
Robert B Horsch, Monsanto, USA
Dirk Inzé, Department of Plant Genetics, VIB/Universiteit Gent, Belgium
Jizeng Jia, Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
Huw Jones, Rothamsted Research, UK
Phil Larkin, High Rainfall Zone Cropping, CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra, Australia
Richard Michelmore, Department of Vegetable Crops, University of California, USA
Ruidang Quan, Biotechnology Research Institute Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
Francisco Salamini, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Zuechtungsforschung, Germany
Renate Schmidt, Leibniz Institute for Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Germany
Andrew Sharpe, Molecular Genetics Section, Saskatoon Research Centre, Canada
Ashok K. Shrawat, Department of Biological Sciences, Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Fumio Takaiwa, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Japan
Roberto Tuberosa, Department of Agroenvironmental Science and Technology, Bologna, Italy
Ben Vosman, Plant Research International B.V., The Netherlands
Robbie Waugh, Genome Dynamics, Scottish Crop Research Institute, Dundee, UK Marc Zabeau, Department of Plant Genetics, VIB/Universiteit Gent, Belgium
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