期刊名称：NATURE PLANTS ISSN： 2055-026X 出版频率： Monthly 出版社： NATURE PORTFOLIO, HEIDELBERGER PLATZ 3, BERLIN, Germany, 14197   出版社网址： http://www.nature.com/index.html 期刊网址： http://www.nature.com/nplants/ 影响因子： 15.793 主题范畴： PLANT SCIENCES 变更情况： 期刊简介(About the journal)    投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)    编辑部信息(Editorial Board)    About the journal Definition The global significance of plants cannot be overstated. Through their harvesting of the sun's energy plants are fundamental to the creation of environments capable of supporting other forms of complex life. They provide many of the raw materials for every human endeavour in the form of food, clothing, energy, shelter and the complex chemicals on which our modern world is based. Nature Plants is concerned with all aspects of plants be it their evolution, development or metabolism, their interactions with the environment, or their societal significance. Publishing monthly it will have a particular interest in studies that advance knowledge and inform development across a diversity of areas Nature Plants is committed to publishing primary research into the molecular biology, physiology and ecology of plants—in both the basic and applied research spheres­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­—as well as investigations into the relationship between humanity and the plant kingdom.  In so doing, Nature Plants will provide a fully rounded picture of the most accomplished and significant advances in the plant sciences. Like all Nature-branded journals, Nature Plants will be characterised by a fair and rigorous peer-review process, high standards of copy-editing and production, swift publication and editorial independence. In addition to publishing original research, Nature Plants will deliver News, Commentaries, Reviews, News and Views, and Features from across the full range of disciplines concerned with the plant sciences.  By providing a holistic approach to the science of plants, Nature Plants will be an invaluable source for researchers, technologists and policy makers alike. Topics covered in the journal include: Agriculture Genetics Agronomy Genomics Biochemistry Metabolism Biofuels Metabalomics Biophysics Molecular Biology Cell Biology Photosynthesis Defence Physiology Development Plant-microbe Interactions Disease resistance Proteomics Ecology Secondary Metabolism Economics Sociology Evolution Symbiosis Food security Systems biology Forestry Water use Instructions to Authors Guide to Authors Please read this section before submitting anything to Nature Plants. This section explains our editorial criteria, and how manuscripts are handled by our editors between submission and acceptance for publication. How to Submit Authors are strongly encouraged to submit their papers using our secure online submission system, where you can also check the status of your submission. This section contains information about submitting your article to Nature Plants, including: Presubmission enquiries Initial and revised submissions Final submissions (after acceptance) Supplementary information Content Types This section provides a description of all types of contribution published in Nature Plants, and detailed instructions for preparing, formatting and writing all types of manuscripts published in the journal. Editorial Process This section provides a description of the process followed by Nature Plants when assessing a study's suitability for publication. For referees This section contains guidelines for refereeing for Nature Plants. Referees are strongly encouraged to use our secure online submission system, where you can download manuscripts and upload your comments. For Authors & Referees Guide To Authors How To Submit Content Types Editorial Process For Referees For Authors & Referees Editorial Board Chief Editor: Chris Surridge Chris has spent the last two decades honing his skills until he was finally ready to lead the editorial team of Nature Plants. Chris gained a PhD in Biophysics from Imperial College, London in 1992 studying the dynamics of microtubule assembly. He left the bench for scientific publishing in 1993 initially as Assistant Editor on Nature Structural Biology, and then as a member of the editorial team at Nature where he has handled topics as diverse as structural biology, neuroscience and systems biology. He became the Plant Sciences editor of Nature in 1999 just in time for the publication of the Arabidopsis genome. In 2005 he joined the Public Library of Science (PLoS) as the Managing Editor of PLoS ONE, before returning to Nature as a Senior Editor in 2008. From 2009 to 2014 he was Chief Editor of Nature Protocols. Chris has also spent time as Nature's Web Editor and as the Editor of the now defunct Brief Communication section.  Senior Editor: Anna Armstrong Prior to joining Nature Publishing Group, Anna worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of York and the Australian National University, where she examined the response of plant respiration to environmental change. She has also been involved in research projects at the University of Illinois and at the intensive forestry biome at Biosphere 2. She received her BSc in Biology and her PhD in Plant Ecophysiology from the Department of Biology, University of York. Between 2008 and 2014 Anna was a Senior Editor on Nature Geoscience, where she handled manuscripts in the broad area of biogeochemistry. Associate Editor - Guillaume Tena A long time ago, in a faraway country, Guillaume was sitting at a bench, with a scalpel in his hand. It was during a university practical training session in biology. He was looking at a frog, and the frog was looking at him. Something happened. Right there, very suddenly, he decided once and for all that he would not study animal biology. The frog escaped alive, and Guillaume escaped towards a PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Montpellier, France, working on auxin and MAP kinases in tobacco cells. As a post-doc, he spent fourteen years in Boston, USA, in Jen Sheen’s lab at Harvard / MGH, to study the involvement of MAP kinases in plant defence signalling and abiotic stress in Arabidopsis thaliana. He then realized that he just spent almost half of his life working on MAP kinases, and he decided he would never write this word again in his biography. Back in France for a year, he enrolled in a Master in Scientific Communications at the University of Strasbourg, and officialised his escape from the bench by joining the editorial team at Nature Plants in London, UK. Associate Editor - Jun Lyu Before joining Nature Plants in 2014, Jun received his PhD from the Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he studied crop genomics. His research focused on understanding the genetic basis of selected agronomic traits in rice, such as upland adaptation, by means of comparative and evolutionary genomics. He was also trained in a functional genomics lab in the institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, between 2008 and 2009, where he studied the mechanism of temperature/photoperiod sensitive male sterility in rice using transgenic lines. His interest includes plant genetics, epigenetics and evolution. He received the Ray Wu Prize in 2013.  Editorial Advisory Panel in Social Science and Policy In addition to its team of editors, Nature Plants has an external advisory panel in the fields of social sciences and policy to support further development of the journal in these areas. All final editorial decisions are made by the journal's editors. Our advisory panel includes the following members: Michael S. Carolan Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO USA Research interests: environmental and agricultural law and policy, environmental sociology, the sociology of food systems and agriculture, the sociology of technology and scientific knowledge, and social theory. Gerad Middendorf Associate Professor of Sociology Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work Kansas State University Manhattan, KS USA Research interests: rural and environmental studies, sociology of agriculture and food, international development, science and technology studies, and contemporary theory. Carolyn Sachs Professor of Rural Sociology Department of Women’s Studies Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA USA Research interests: agriculture and food, environment and natural resources, and community, regional and international development. Glenn Davis Stone Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies Department of Anthropology Washington University St. Louis, MO USA Research interests: environmental anthropology, political ecology, food studies, and science and technology studies. David Zilberman Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics UC Berkeley Berkeley, CA USA Research interests: marketing, biotechnology, water, risk management, biofuels, natural resources, agricultural and environmental policy, and the economics of innovation.