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the-plant-journal

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Use when targeting The Plant Journal or deciding whether a plant-science manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the mechanistic gene-to-function and molecular-rigor bar, evidence and data-deposition expectations, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.

When to use

• fit/framing check for a mechanistic molecular-plant paper
• elevating phenotype or candidate-gene observation into resolved gene-to-function mechanism
• deciding between The Plant Journal and new-phytologist
• desk-reject heuristics and credible alternative route
• gene function and regulation
• protein biochemistry, enzymology, and metabolic and signaling pathways
• cell biology: organelle function, trafficking, cytoskeleton, and subcellular dynamics
• plant development and physiology with underlying molecular/genetic mechanism

When not to use

• descriptive or whole-organism/ecological observation with no resolved molecular mechanism
• ecology, physiology, whole-plant/ecosystem-scale integration
• deepest mechanistic cell biology with broad cell-biology significance

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