Molecular Breeding is an international journal publishing papers on applications of plant molecular biology, i.e., research most likely leading to practical applications. The practical applications might have demonstrable benefits for the seed industry, farmers, processing industry, environment and consumers.

All papers published should contribute to the understanding and progress of modern plant breeding, encompassing the scientific disciplines of genetics, genomics, bioinformatics, molecular biology, biotechnology, biochemistry, physiology, pathology and breeding. Topics include contemporary methods of molecular genetics and genomic analysis, functional genomics, proteomics and metabolic profiling, biotic stress, abiotic stress, molecular breeding and field evaluation of crops with improved traits.

Molecular Breeding welcomes the following categories of papers: full papers, short communications, review papers and papers describing novel methods. All submission are subject to peer review ensuring the highest scientific quality standards.

Manuscripts submitted to Molecular Breeding will focus on applications, but we will also accept fundamental science papers as long as they are of direct relevance to crop plants. Molecular Breeding also welcomes relevant articles addressing intellectual property issues, regulation and public attitudes to plant biotechnology and also significant technology advances in applied plant molecular biology.

Editor-in-Chief:
Qifa Zhang
Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
qifazh@mail.hzau.edu.cn 

Managing Editors:

Yibo Li
Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
liyibo@mail.hzau.edu.cn 

Liang Guo
Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
guoliang@mail.hzau.edu.cn
Editorial Board:

Ian Bancroft, University of York, UK; 
Amalia Barone, University of Naples, Portici, Italy; 
Jacqueline Batley, University of Western Australia, Australia; 
Guusje Bonnema, Wageningen University, The Netherlands; 
Feng Chen, Henan Agricultural University, China; 
Guanqun (Gavin) Chen, University of Alberta, Canada; 
Feng Cheng, Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, China; 
Paul Christou, Universitat de Lleida, Spain;
Fei Dai, Zhejiang University, China;
Xingwang Deng, Peking University, China;
Elisabetta Frascaroli, University of Bologna, Italy;
Andreas Graner, Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany; 
Sun-Wha Ha, Kyung Hee University, China;
Andrea Harper, University of York, USA;
Zhonghu He, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, China;
Xuehui Huang, Shanghai Normal University, China; 
David Hyten, University of Nebraska, USA;
Takao Komatsuda, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Japan; 
Fanjiang Kong, Guangzhou University, China; 
Viktor Korzun, KWS SAAT SE, Einbeck, Germany; 
Jochen Kumlehn, IPK Gatersleben, Germany; 
E. Lagudah,CSIRO,Canberra, Australia; 
S.-H. Lee, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea; 
Chengdao Li, Murdoch University, Australia;
L. Li, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA;
Qiaoquan Liu, Yangzhou University, China; 
Jianxin Ma, Purdue University, USA;
Wujun Ma, Murdoch University, Australia; 
Marco Maccaferri, DipSA, Bologna, Italy; 
Annaliese Mason, JLU Giessen, Germany;
Sara Montanari, University of California, Davis, CA, USA; 
A. Pereira, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Blacksburg, USA; 
Feng Qin, China Agriculturel University, China; 
J. Antoni Rafalski, DuPont Crop Genetics, Newark, DE, USA; 
S. Salvi, IASMA, Trento, Italy; 
D.J. Sargent, Fondazioni Edmund Mach, San Michele all'Adige, Italy; 
Takuji Sasaki, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Japan; 
Rod Snowdon, JLU Giessen, Germany;
Genlou Sun, Saint Mary's University, Canada; 
Feng Tian, China Agricultural University, China; 
Gregory N. Thyssen, USDA, USA;
Roberto Tuberosa, Biotechnology Applied Plant Breeding, Bologna, Italy; 
Yusaku Uga, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Japan; 
Rajeev Varshney, ICRISAT, India;
Richard Visser, Wageningen University, The Netherlands; 
Rod Wing, University of Arizona, USA;
Juyou Wu, Nanjing Agricultural University, China;
Jinhua Xiao, Hua-Zhi Rice Bio-tech Co., LTD, Changsha, Hunan, China; 
Qiang Xu, Huazhong Agricultural University, China; 
Jianming Yu, Iowa State University, USA; 
Zuxin Zhang, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China