期刊名称：JOURNAL OF PLANT INTERACTIONS
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Journal of Plant Interactions aims to represent a common platform for those scientists interested in publishing and reading research articles in the field of plant interactions and covers most plant interactions with the surrounding environment. Journal of Plant Interactions covers the subject areas of:
Plant-Plant Interaction
This area deals with interaction between plants, considering all biochemical, physiological and molecular aspects.
Plant-Microorganism Interaction
This area is surely one of the widest and covers three fundamental sub-areas: Plant-Fungi; Plant-Bacteria and Plant-Virus Interactions. Responses to and interactions of plants with micro-organisms are the basics for understanding community dynamics and crop productivity, as well as the key to discovering new resistance genes for pest and disease attacks.
Plant-Insect Interaction
The presence of plants after millions of years of herbivore predation is the demonstration that plants have the ability to deter herbivore feeding, but the presence of herbivore after ages of plant toxin biosynthesis is the living evidence that insect herbivores are able to counteract plant poisons. This area deals with all aspects of interaction: from pest attack to plant attraction; from tritrophic interaction to biological control.
Plant-Animal Interaction
Besides insects, monogastric and polygastric herbivores interact with plants with grazing activity. This area is intended for all studies concerning the effect of grazing on plant population and dynamics.
Plant-Environment Interaction
This area is divided into two general sections: ’pen environment’and ’losed environment’ The first section covers all aspects of plants’interaction with abiotic stresses present in the natural environments (including atmospheric phenomena, light, temperature, pollution, etc.). The aim of the second section is to collect research reports on artificial environments where plants live (including greenhouses, growth chambers, etc.) both on Earth and in space applications. Remote sensing and biosensing will also be covered under this area.
Plant-Soil Interaction (including Plant-Water Interaction)
This area deals with nutrition, drought, flooding, restoration, phytoremediation, bioremediation, applied ecology, and all aspects where plants interact with the soil.
The Journal is of significance to all plant biologists, plant physiologists, ecologists, mycologists, microbiologists, agronomists, landscape architects, environmental engineers, entomologists, students and all researchers interested in biological struggle and sustainable use of natural resources.
CALL FOR PAPERS
As Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Plant Interactions , Massimo Maffei welcomes submissions from authors. The Journalprefers to publish only those manuscripts that present fundamental advances of wide interest to the plant-interaction biology community. Preference will be given to manuscripts presenting evidence that answers important questions with a high degree of certainty and clarity. Manuscripts that only describe the effect of plant interactions – although important and interesting from a phenomenological point of view – generally do not meet the standards insisted on by most reviewers without providing a biological meaning and interpretation. Similarly, quality manuscripts that describe a new methodology, but which do not also provide substantial new insight into the biology of plant interactions may not meet reviewers’ expectations or the journal’s scope. Furthermore, manuscripts that are not accompanied by a sound statistical analysis of data to support results will not be taken into consideration.
All submissions will be independently refereed by editorial board members and by external referees chosen on an international basis. All published research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymous refereeing by independent expert referees.
Instructions to Authors
Journal of Plant Interactions considers all manuscripts on the strict condition that they have been submitted only to Journal of Plant Interactions , that they have not been published already, nor are they under consideration for publication or in press elsewhere. Authors who fail to adhere to this condition will be charged with all costs which Journal of Plant Interactions incurs and their papers will not be published.
Contributions to Journal of Plant Interactions must review published original research and will be subjected to review by referees at the discretion of the Editorial Office.
Manuscript Preparation
1. General guidelines
Papers are accepted only in English. British English spelling and punctuation is preferred. Please use single quotation marks.
Manuscripts should be compiled in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text; acknowledgments; appendices (as appropriate); references; table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figure caption(s) (as a list). A word count should be included and authors should indicate if the paper is for a special issue.
Abstracts of 100-150 words are required for all papers submitted.
Each paper should have three to six keywords. Section headings should be concise and numbered sequentially, using a decimal system for subsections.
All the authors of a paper should include their full names, affiliations, postal addresses, telephone and fax numbers and email addresses where prompted on manuscript submission. One author should be identified as the Corresponding Author.
Biographical notes on contributors are not required for this journal.
For all manuscripts non-discriminatory language is mandatory. Sexist or racist terms should not be used.
Authors must adhere to SI units . Units are not italicised.
When using a word which is or is asserted to be a proprietary term or trade mark, authors must use the symbol ® or TM.
2. Style guidelines
Description of the Journal’s article style , Quick guide
Description of the Journal’s reference styles
Guide to using mathematical symbols and equations
Word templates
Word templates are available for this journal. If you are not able to use the template via the links or if you have any other queries, please contact authortemplate@tandf.co.uk
3. Tables and Figures
It is in the author’s interest to provide the highest quality figure format possible. Please be sure that all imported scanned material is scanned at the appropriate resolution: 1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour.
Figures must be saved separate to text. Please do not embed figures in the paper file.
Files should be saved as one of the following formats: TIFF (tagged image file format), PostScript or EPS (encapsulated PostScript), and should contain all the necessary font information and the source file of the application (e.g. CorelDraw/Mac, CorelDraw/PC).
All tables and figures must be numbered with consecutive Arabic numbers in the order in which they appear in the paper (e.g. Table 1, Table 2, Figure 1, Figure 2). In multi-part figures, each part should be labelled (e.g. Table 1(a), Table 2(b), Figure 1(a), Figure 2(b)).
Figure captions must be saved separately, as part of the file containing the complete text of the paper, and numbered correspondingly.
Figures should be produced as near to the finished size as possible.
The filename for a graphic should be descriptive of the graphic, e.g. Figure1, Figure2a.
4. Colour
There are a limited number of colour pages within the annual page allowance. Authors should restrict their use of colour to situations where it is necessary on scientific, and not merely cosmetic, grounds. Authors of accepted papers who propose publishing figures in colour in the print version should consult Taylor & Francis at proof stage to agree on an appropriate number of colour pages. If the colour page budget is exceeded, authors will be given the option to provide a financial contribution to additional colour reproduction costs. Figures that appear in black-and-white in the print edition of the Journal will appear in colour in the online edition, assuming colour originals are supplied.
5. Reproduction of copyright material
As an author, you are required to secure permission if you want to reproduce any figure, table, or extract from the text of another source. This applies to direct reproduction as well as "derivative reproduction" (where you have created a new figure or table which derives substantially from a copyrighted source). For further information and FAQs, please see http://journalauthors.tandf.co.uk/preparation/permission.asp . Authors are themselves responsible for the payment of any permission fees required by the copyright owner. Copies of permission letters should be sent with the manuscript upon submission to the Editor(s).
Copyright permission letter template
6. Supplementary online material
Authors are welcome to submit animations, movie files, sound files or any additional information for online publication.
Information about supplementary online material
Manuscript submission
All submissions should be made online at the Journal of Plant Interactions Manuscript Central site . New users should first create an account. Once logged on to the site, submissions should be made via the Author Centre. Online user guides and access to a helpdesk are available on this website.
Manuscripts may be submitted in any standard format, including Word, PostScript and PDF. These files will be automatically converted into a PDF file for the review process. LaTeX files should be converted to PDF prior to submission because Manuscript Central is not able to convert LaTeX files into PDFs directly. This journal does not accept Microsoft Word 2007 documents. Please use Word’s "Save As" option to save your document as an older (.doc) file type.
Copyright and authors’ rights
It is a condition of publication that authors assign copyright or license the publication rights in their articles, including abstracts, to Taylor & Francis. This enables us to ensure full copyright protection and to disseminate the article, and of course the Journal, to the widest possible readership in print and electronic formats as appropriate. Authors retain many rights under the Taylor & Francis rights policies, which can be found at http://journalauthors.tandf.co.uk/preparation/copyright.asp . Authors are themselves responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyright material from other sources.
Exceptions are made for authors of Crown or US Government employees whose policies require that copyright cannot be transferred to other parties. We ask that a signed statement to this effect is submitted when returning proofs for accepted papers.
Reprints
Corresponding authors can receive 50 free reprints, free online access to their article through our website ( www.informaworld.com ).
Reprints of articles published in the Journal can be purchased through Rightslink® when proofs are received. If you have any queries, please contact our reprints department at reprints@tandf.co.uk .
Page charges
There are no page charges to individuals or institutions.
i OpenAccess
Authors whose manuscripts have been accepted for publication have the option to pay a one-off fee of US$3250 to make their article free to read online ie “Open access” via the Journal of Plant Interactions website. Choosing this option also allows authors to post their article in an institutional or subject repository immediately upon publication.
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Massimo Maffei - Faculty of Sciences, University of Turin, Italy
Manuscript Manager
Cinzia Bertea - Faculty of Sciences, University of Turin, Italy
Editorial Board
Anand Akhila - Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, India
Alan J M Baker - The University of Melbourne, Australia
Graziella Berta - Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale "A. Avogadro", Italy
Guido V. Bloemberg - Leiden University, The Netherlands
Wilhelm Boland - Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Germany
Harro Bouwmeester - Plant Research International, The Netherlands
Christian Damgaard - Department of Terrestrial Ecology, Denmark
Andreas Erhardt - Universität Basel, Switzerland
Stephen K. Farrand - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Gary W Frasier - Crops Research Laboratory, USA
Yuke He - National Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genentics, China
Anton Hartmann - Institute of Soil Ecology, Germany
Sophien Kamoun - Ohio State University Wooster, USA
Wolfgang Knogge - Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Germany
Francesco Loreto - Istituto di Biologia Agroambientale e Forestale (IBAF), Italy
Jean Charles Munch - Institute of Soil Ecology, Germany
Guy Poppy - University of Southampton, UK
Robin Sen - Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Junji Takabayashi - Kyoto University, Japan
Heather Whitney - University of Britsol, UK
Christie Williams - USDA-ARS, West Lafayette, USA
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