Young Researchers in Plant Sciences
A special issue of Biology (ISSN 2079-7737). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 186
Special Issue Editor
Interests: plant physiology; genomics; biotechnology; pathology; fruit quality
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In this Special Issue, we aim to feature the early-career researchers in the field of plant science. The senior authors of the contributions should be a) the first or last author in addition to the corresponding author and b) either within 10 years of completing their PhD (or equivalent) or an assistant professor/on tenure track. We invite submissions from diverse research fields, including topics dealing with the whole range of structural (from subcellular compartments to ecosystems), biochemical (atoms to supramolecules), functional (wild types to transgenics and CASPR/Cas-altered) and interactive levels (with other plants, microorganisms, animals, and humans). Manuscripts of the mechanistic nature are particularly welcome as opposed to descriptive ones. Articles submitted for this Special Issue should meet all standard requirements of individual Biology articles (regarding quality, novelty, and significance) and be relevant to a broad international and interdisciplinary readership.
Authors featured in this Special Issue will have the opportunity to be nominated for next year's Young Investigator Award. They will receive a cash prize and and a subsequent free publication of an article in Biology. In addition, a few free APCs are available for the best scholars who will contribute to this special issue; requests accompanied by manuscript title, authors and abstracts, should be sent to [email protected].
Prof. Dr. Luigi De Bellis
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- biodiversity
- biogeography
- biotic and abiotic stress responses
- carbon sequestration
- ecosystem functions
- gene–function relationships
- photosynthesis
- phytohormones
- phytoremediation
- plant interactions with viruses, bacteria, fungi, plants, and animals
- primary and secondary metabolism
- seed development
- signalling pathways
- structure–function simulation modelling
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