期刊名称：PLANT CELL TISSUE AND ORGAN CULTURE
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture
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Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture is an international monthly journal that publishes original results of fundamental studies on the behavior of plant cells, tissues, and organs in vitro. Topics include growth and developmental, anatomical, histological and ultrastructural aspects, physiology and biochemistry, genetics and breeding, phytopathological aspects, and biotechnology. Methodological and technical aspects of the culture of plant cells, tissues and organs will be considered for publication on the basis of novelty and potential contributions to the studies of the in vitro biology of these systems. |
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Indexing/Abstracting Services
Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture is indexed/abstracted in Biological Abstracts; Biotechnology Citation Index; CAB Abstracts; Chemical Abstracts; Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology, & Environmental Sciences; Elsevier BIOBASE/Current Awareness in Biological Sciences; IBIDS; The ISI Alerting Services; Pascal folio; Reference Update; Science Citation Index; Science Citation Index Expanded
Instructions to Authors
Manuscript Submission
Kluwer Academic Publishers request the submission of manuscripts and figures in electronic form in addition to a hard-copy printout. The preferred storage medium for your electronic manuscript is a 3 1/2 inch diskette. Please label your diskette properly, giving exact details on the name(s) of the file(s), the operating system and software used. Always save your electronic manuscript in the word processor format that you use; conversions to other formats and versions tend to be imperfect. In general, use as few formatting codes as possible. For safety¡®s sake, you should always retain a backup copy of your file(s). After acceptance, please make absolutely sure that you send the latest (i.e., revised) version of your manuscript, both as hard-copy printout and on diskette (submission in electronic form of the final version of your article is compulsory).
Kluwer Academic Publishers prefer articles submitted in word processing packages such as MS Word, WordPerfect, etc. running under operating systems MS DOS, Windows and Apple Macintosh, or in the file format LaTeX. Articles submitted in other software programs can also be accepted.
For submission in LaTeX, Kluwer Academic Publishers have developed a Kluwer LaTeX class file, which can be downloaded from: http://www.wkap.nl/authors/jrnlstylefiles/
use of this class file is highly recommended. Do not use versions downloaded from other sites. Technical support is available at: texhelp@wkap.nl. If you are not familiar with TeX/LaTeX, the class file will be of no use to you. In that case, submit your article in a common word processor format.
For the purpose of reviewing, articles for publication should be submitted as hard-copy printout (five-fold) and on diskette to: Journal Editorial Office
Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture
P.O. Box 990
3300 AA Dordrecht
The Netherlands
Fax: +31 78 6576 555
Manuscript Presentation
The journal¡®s language is English. British English or American English spelling and terminology may be used, but either one should be followed consistently throughout the article.
Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture welcomes original research papers, review papers and research notes.
Original research papers should generally not exceed ten pages of printed text, including references, tables and figures (one page of printed text = approx. 600 words).
Review papers should not exceed 15 pages of printed text, including references, tables and figures.
Short Commentary reviews should not exceed 4 pages, and detailed reviews may take up to 25 pages of printed text (one page of printed text is approx. 600 words). A manuscript for review should be assembled in the following order: Research notes should not exceed four pages of printed text, including a maximum of 10 references, and a maximum of two tables or figures. The format of these research notes should be as follows:
- Title, Author(s), Affiliation(s), Key words, Abbreviations, Abstract
- Document (no headings or sub-headings)
- References (not to exceed 10)
Papers already published, in press or submitted elsewhere will not be accepted. If any part of the subject matter or experiments included in a manuscript submitted to the Journal have been the subject of any prior publication, this prior publication must be identified. Papers of restricted local importance will not be accepted.
Manuscripts should be printed or typewritten on A4 or US Letter bond paper, one side only, leaving adequate margins on all sides to allow reviewers¡® remarks. Please double-space all material, including notes and references. Quotations of more than 40 words should be set off clearly, either by indenting the left-hand margin or by using a smaller typeface. Use double quotation marks for direct quotations and single quotation marks for quotations within quotations and for words or phrases used in a special sense.
Number the pages consecutively with the first page containing:
- article type
- title (a subtitle may be used to supplement and shorten a long main title)
- author(s) (if more than one, use ¡¯&¡® before the last one and indicate to whom correspondence should be addressed)
- affiliation(s)
- full address for correspondence, including telephone and fax number and e-mail address
Article TypesOriginal research papers
Review papers
Research notes
Abstract
Please provide a short abstract up to 250 words. The abstract should not contain any undefined abbreviations or unspecified references.
Key Words
Please provide 5 to 10 key words or short phrases in alphabetical order, suitable for indexing. Do not repeat words from title.
Abbreviations
Abbreviations and their explanations should be collected in a list, alphabetically arranged, only those which are not familiar and/or commonly used.
Symbols and Units
- SI units should be used, e.g.:~mg,~g, kg,~km, m,~cm, mm, ppm, cpm, l (litre), ml, s (second), min (minute), h (hour), mol, m-1, kg per ha or kg ha-1 (the minus index form is always to be used in tables).
- Use mg l-1, not mg/l. When growth regulators are being compared, their concentrations must be stated in molarity. However, amounts in mg l-1 may be presented in parentheses after the molar concentration and used thereafter if so doing would improve comprehension of the text, tables or figures. Plant growth regulators® is the preferred general term: use of the term plant hormones® is restricted to naturally-occurring compounds, e.g. IAA, zeatin, abscisic acid.
- If a non-standard abbreviation is to be used extensively, it should be defined in full, following the abstract.
Figures and TablesSubmission of electronic figures
In addition to hard-copy printouts of figures, authors are requested to supply the electronic versions of figures in either Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) or TIFF format. Many other formats, e.g., Proprietary Formats, PiCT (Macintosh) and WMF (Windows), cannot be used and the hard copy will be scanned instead.
Figures should be saved in separate files without their captions, which should be included with the text of the article. Files should be named according to DOS conventions, e.g.figure1.eps®. For vector graphics, EPS is the preferred format. Lines should not be thinner than 0.25pts and in-fill patterns and screens should have a density of at least 10%. Font-related problems can be avoided by using standard fonts such as Times Roman and Helvetica. For bitmapped graphics, TIFF is the preferred format but EPS is also acceptable. The following resolutions are optimal: black-and-white line figures - 600 - 1200 dpi; line figures with some grey or coloured lines - 600 dpi; photographs - 300 dpi; screen dumps - leave as is. Higher resolutions will not improve output quality but will only increase file size, which may cause problems with printing; lower resolutions may compromise output quality. Please try to provide artwork that approximately fits within the typeset area of the journal. Especially screened originals, i.e. originals with grey areas, may suffer badly from reduction by more than 10-15%. AVOIDING PROBLEMS WITH EPS GRAPHICS
Please always check whether the figures print correctly to a PostScript printer in a reasonable amount of time. If they do not, simplify your figures or use a different graphics program.
If EPS export does not produce acceptable output, try to create an EPS file with the printer driver (see below). This option is unavailable with the Microsoft driver for Windows NT, so if you run Windows NT, get the Adobe driver from the Adobe site (www.adobe.com).
If EPS export is not an option, e.g., because you rely on OLE and cannot create separate files for your graphics, it may help us if you simply provide a PostScript dump of the entire document. HOW TO SET UP FOR EPS AND POSTSCRIPT DUMPS UNDER WINDOWS
Create a printer entry specifically for this purpose: install the printer Apple Laserwriter Plus® and specify FILE¡®: as printer port. Each time you send something to the printer® you will be asked for a filename. This file will be the EPS file or PostScript dump that we can use.
The EPS export option can be found under the PostScript tab. EPS export should be used only for single-page documents. For printing a document of several pages, select Optimise for portability® instead. The option Download header with each job® should be checked. Submission of hard-copy figures
If no electronic versions of figures are available, submit only high-quality artwork that can be reproduced as is, i.e., without any part having to be redrawn or re-typeset. The letter size of any text in the figures must be large enough to allow for reduction. Photographs should be in black-and-white on glossy paper. If a figure contains colour, make absolutely clear whether it should be printed in black-and-white or in colour. Figures that are to be printed in black-and-white should not be submitted in colour. Authors will be charged for reproducing figures in colour.
Each figure and table should be numbered consecutively and mentioned in order in the text. The approximate position of figures and tables should be indicated in the margin of the manuscript. On the reverse side of each figure, the name of the (first) author and the figure number should be written in pencil; the top of the figure should be clearly indicated. Figures and tables should be placed at the end of the manuscript following the Reference section. Each figure and table should be accompanied by an explanatory legend. The figure legends should be grouped and placed on a separate page. Figures are not returned to the author unless specifically requested.
In tables, footnotes are preferable to long explanatory material in either the heading or body of the table. Such explanatory footnotes, identified by superscript letters, should be placed immediately below the table.
Section Headings
First-, second-, third-, and fourth-order headings should be clearly distinguishable but not numbered. The following headings should be used: Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results/Discussion and Conclusions. Example:
Introduction
Please provide a rational for the need for in vitro techniques and a context for the report with respect to previous work done in the field. Clear objectives for the research work should be outlined and critical relevant literature should be cited.
Methods and materials
Please provide sufficient methodological details in the text or references to allow a competent person to repeat the work - details should include a clear experimental plan with replicated experiments and appropriate statistical analysis information. Document all special materials and conditions necessary to repeat the experimental work.
Results
All quantitative data should include some indication of variability. Quantitative data presented in a qualitative form (e.g. +, ++, +++) is generally unacceptable. Photographs should be of high quality and necessary to illustrate a key point.
Contribution to science
Manuscripts should comprise (a) an original and novel report on a significant finding, (b) a valuable extension of known results or (c) a useful confirmation of known results. Manuscripts reporting preliminary or unreplicated results, information that is widely known and previously published upon or expected results from information extensively reported in the literature on the same topic is generally not acceptable.
Appendices
Supplementary material should be collected in an Appendix and placed before the Notes and Reference sections.
Notes
Please use endnotes rather than footnotes. Notes should be indicated by consecutive superscript numbers in the text and listed at the end of the article before the References. A source reference note should be indicated by means of an asterisk after the title. This note should be placed at the bottom of the first page.
Cross-Referencing
In the text, a reference identified by means of an author's name should be followed by the date of the reference in parentheses and page number(s) where appropriate. When there are more than two authors, only the first author's name should be mentioned, followed by et al.. In the event that an author cited has had two or more works published during the same year, the reference, both in the text and in the reference list, should be identified by a lower case letter like a and b after the date to distinguish the works. Examples:
Winograd (1986, p. 204)
(Winograd, 1986a, b)
(Winograd, 1986; Flores et al., 1988)
(Bullen and Bennett, 1990)
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements of people, grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a separate section before the References.
References
References to books, journal articles, articles in collections and conference or workshop proceedings, and technical reports should be listed at the end of the article in alphabetical order. Articles in preparation or articles submitted for publication, unpublished observations, personal communications, etc. should not be included in the reference list but should only be mentioned in the article text (e.g., T. Moore, personal communication).
Please abbreviate titles of periodicals according to the style of the Bibliographic Guide for Editors & Authors (Biosis, Chemical Abstracts Service and Engineering Index, Inc., 1974. ISBN 8412-0203-6).
References to books should include the author's name; year of publication; title; page numbers where appropriate; publisher; place of publication, in the order given in the example below.
Dodds JH & Roberts LW (1982) Experiments in Plant Tissue Culture. Cambridge University Press, London
References to articles in an edited collection should include the author's name; year of publication; article title; editor's name; title of collection; first and last page numbers; publisher; place of publication, in the order given in the example below.
Keller WA (1984) Anther culture of Brassica. In: Vasil IK (ed) Cell Culture and Somatic Cell Genetics of Plants, Vol 1 (pp. 302-310). Academic Press, Orlando
References to articles in conference proceedings should include the author's name; year of publication; article title; editor's name (if any); title of proceedings; first and last page numbers; place and date of conference; publisher and/or organization from which the proceedings can be obtained; place of publication, in the order given in the example below.
Sivan P & Liyanage A de (1992) Breeding and evalaution of taro (C. esculenta) for the Pacific region. In: Ferentinos S (ed) Proceedings of the Sustainable Taro Culture for the Pacific Conference, Series 140 (pp. 1-5). University of Hawaii
References to articles in periodicals should include the author's name; year of publication; article title; full abbreviated title of periodical; volume number (issue number where appropriate); first and last page numbers, in the order given in the example below.
Hammerschlag FA, Bauchan G & Scorza R (1985) Regeneration of peach plants from callus derived from immature embryos. Theor. Appl. Genet. 70: 248-251.
References to technical reports or doctoral dissertations should include the author's name; year of publication; title of report or dissertation; institution; location of institution, in the order given in the example below.
Engler D (1997) Control of cell cycle. In: H Greppin, C Penel & P Simon (eds) Travelling Shot on Plant Development (pp 95-96). Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland.
Proofs
Proofs will be sent to the corresponding author by e-mail (if no e-mail address is available or appears to be out of order, proofs will be sent by regular mail).
Your response, with or without corrections, should be sent within 72 hours. Please do not make any corrections to the PDF file.
Minor corrections (+/- 10) should be sent as an e-mail attachment to: proofscorrection@wkap.nl. Always quote the four-letter journal code and article number and the PIPS No. from your proof in the subject field of your e-mail.
Extensive corrections must be clearly marked on a printout of the PDF file and should be sent by first-class mail (airmail overseas).
Offprints
Fifty offprints of each article will be provided free of charge. Additional offprints (both hard copies and PDF files) can be ordered by means of an offprint order form supplied with the proofs.
Page Charges and Colour Figures
No page charges are levied on authors or their institutions. Colour figures are published at the author¡®s expense only.
Copyright
Authors will be asked, upon acceptance of an article, to transfer copyright of the article to the Publisher. This will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information under copyright laws.
Permissions
It is the responsibility of the author to obtain written permission for a quotation from unpublished material, or for all quotations in excess of 250 words in one extract or 500 words in total from any work still in copyright, and for the reprinting of figures, tables or poems from unpublished or copyrighted material.
Additional Information
Additional information can be obtained from: Publishing editor Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture
Kluwer Academic Publishers
P.O. Box 17
3300 AA Dordrecht
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 78 6576327
KAP Homepage: http://www.wkap.nl
Editorial Board
Editorial Chair:
Geert-Jan de Klerk
Plant Tissue Culture Group, Applied Plant Research, Wageningen University and Research, Lisse, The Netherlands
Science Editor:
Jan M. Bonga
Dept. of Natural Resources, Canadian Forest Service, Fredericton, Canada
Didier Courtois
Centre R&D Nestl¨¦, Tours, France
Richard E. Litz
University of Florida, Homestead, USA
Alan H. Scragg
Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
Editorial Board:
J. Aitken, Biotechnologies, Rotorua, New Zealand
E.J. Allan, University of Aberdeen, UK
S. Arcioni, Istituto Ricerche sul Miglioramento Genetico delle Piante Foraggere del CNR, Perugia, Italy
M.R. Becwar, ArborGen, Summerville, USA
E.E. Benson, University of Albertay, Dundee, UK
R.I.S. Brettell, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia
D.C.W. Brown, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, London, Canada
A.J. Burns, Wilwood, MO, USA
A.C. Cassells, National Uiversity of Ireland, Cork, Ireland
V.M. Ch¨¢vez Avila, Jard¨ªn Bot¨¢nica del Instituto de Biolog¨ªa, UNAM, Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico
R.N. Chibbar, National Research Council of Canada, Saskatoon, Canada
T.E. Clemente, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA
D. Cohen, Horticulture and Food Research Institute of New Zealand Ltd., Auckland, New Zealand
H. Collin, University of Liverpool, UK
M.H. Compton, University of Wisconsin, Platteville, USA
P. Debergh, Ghent University, Belgium
P.M. Doran, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
G. Douglas, TEAGASC Agriculture Institute
A.S. Economou, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece
J.W. Grosser, University of Florida, Lake Alfred, USA
C.T. Harms, Ciba-Crop Protection AG, Basel, Switzerland
C.S. Hunter, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
M.E. Kane, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
A. Komamine, The Research Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Tokyo, Japan
S.S. Korban, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA
T. Kozai, Chiba University, Japan
P.P. Kumar, National University of Singapore
K. Lindsey, University of Durham, UK
T.R. Marks, East Malling Horticultural Research International, UK
J. Mc Comb, Murdoch University, Australia
P. Morris, Institute for Grassland and Environmental Research, Aberystwyth, UK
L. Navarro, IVIA,Valencia, Spain
F. Pliego Alfaro, University of M¨¢laga, Spain
J.B. Power, University of Nottingham, UK
J. Preece, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA
P.K. Saxena, University of Guelph, ON, Canada
M.K. Smith, Queensland Horticulture Institute, Nambour, Australia
D.D. Songstad, Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Johnston, USA
T.A. Thorpe, University of Calgary, Canada
R.E. Veilleux, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Blacksburg, USA
P.C.G. van der Linde, SBW International, Roelofarendsveen, The Netherlands
R. Verpoorte, Leiden University, The Netherlands
A. Vieitez Martin, CSIC, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
C. Walter, Forest Research, Rotorua, New Zealand
H. Wetzstein, University of Georgia, Athens, USA
H.D. Wilde, ArborGen, Summerville, SC, USA
M. Ziv, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Reviews in Plant Biotechnology and Applied Genetics:
Science Editor: Shri Mohan Jain, FAO/IAEA Joint Div., Vienna, Austria
Editorial Board: A. Altman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
J. Gressel, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
F.A. Hammerschlag, USDA/ARS Fruit Lab., Beltsville, USA
P.P. Jauhar, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Fargo, USA
G.S. Khush, International Rice Research Institute, Makati City, Philippines
R.E. Litz, University of Florida, Homestead, USA
M. Maluszynski, FAO/IAEA Joint Div., Vienna, Austria
O.P. Rajora, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
R. Sederoff, North Carolina State University, USA I.K. Vasil, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
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