Plant Species Biology
© 2012 The Society for the Study of Species Biology

Edited By: Masashi Ohara
Impact Factor: 0.596
ISI Journal Citation Reports © Ranking: 2010: 111/129 (Ecology); 132/187 (Plant Sciences)
Online ISSN: 1442-1984
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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.
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Top Articles
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

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