Plant Species Biology

Authors are invited to submit papers for consideration to the journal – click here for full guidelines and instructions.

Plant Species Biology offers the following benefits to all authors!

• Online submission via ScholarOne Manuscripts
• Rapid peer-review: average time to the first decision is 30 days!
• Strong editorial support for developing and refining your manuscripts
• Color on web – color figures published online at no cost for authors
• Open Access author-fee option: Authors can choose to make their articles open access through the payment of an author fee

Invited Article
Consequences of forest fragmentation in an understory plant community: extensive range expansion of native dwarf bamboo
Hiroshi Tomimatsu et al.

Plant Species Biology Best Paper Award
PSB anually selects excellent papers with scientific importance.

The 2009 Awardee is: Discovery of male sterile plants and their contrasting occurrence between self-compatible and self-incompatible populations of the hermaphroditic perennial Trillium camschatcense
Shosei Kubota and Masashi Ohara

All contents published in 2009 are freely accessible.
Click to read online.

Morphological and genetic differentiation in Isodon umbrosus by altitudinal variation in bumblebee pollinator assemblages
Ikumi Dohzono, Kazuo Suzuki

Extensive evolutionary rate variation in floral color determining genes in the genus Ipomoea
Donna M. Toleno, Mary L. Durbin, Karen E. Lundy, Michael T. Clegg

Evolution of obligate pollination mutualism in the tribe Phyllantheae (Phyllanthaceae)
Atsushi Kawakita