Overview
AoBP (AoB PLANTS) is a non-profit, sound science, open access journal for plant-focused research. Published by Oxford University Press since 2010, AoBP is dedicated to rapid publication of high quality research on all aspects of plant biology and ecology. All papers are available online to anyone, anywhere, free of charge.
Sound-science Ethos and Mission
The mission of AoBP is to provide an outlet for plant-focused research without the biases that affect much of scientific publishing. These biases include the devaluing of confirmatory or negative results and prejudices against authors based on their personal characteristics (such as gender, ethnicity, affiliation, seniority and reputation). Thus, we base decisions to accept or reject papers solely on rigor, clarity and substance, and we use double-blind peer review, concealing the identities of authors and reviewers during the review process. We prefer to leave judgments about the wider importance of papers to the scientific community.
Convenient, Fast and Economical
AoBP is committed to simple and rapid processing of manuscripts and online publication of accepted works. Authors can submit their work as a single-PDF with few formatting requirements, and we accept reviews cascaded from any other journal, including our sister journal, Annals of Botany. We strive to provide initial decisions within 30–40 days of submission. Our publication charge of $1350 per article is one of the lowest levied by any open-access journal in the biological sciences.

Advisory & Editorial Boards
Chief Editor 
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Tom Buckley
University of California - Davis, USA (bio, webpage, publications)
Editorial Office
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Joanne Ferrier

St Andrews, Scotland, UK
Managing Editor (bio)
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William Salter

Sydney, Australia
Social Media Editor (bio)

Section Editors
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Form & Function
Kate McCulloh

University of Wisconsin, Madison
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Plants, Ecosystems and Climate 
Mary Heskel

Macalester College
Jeremy Beaulieu

Evolution and Diversity
Jeremy Beaulieu

University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

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Populations & Communities
Jean Burns

Case Western Reserve University

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Agroecology & Environment
Amélie Gaudin

University of California, Davis

Advisory Board
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David Ackerly
University of California – Berkeley, USA (webpage, publications)

Editor, New Phytologist

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J. Hall Cushman
University of Nevada - Reno, USA (webpage, publications)

Former Chief Editor, AoB PLANTS (2012–2018)

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Christian Körner
University of Basel, Switzerland (webpage, publications)

Former Chief Editor, Frontiers in Functional Plant Ecology;
Former Editor-in-Chief, Oecologia

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David M. Richardson
University of Stellenbosch, South Africa (webpage, publications)

Former Editor-in-Chief, Diversity & Distributions

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Daniel Simberloff
University of Tennessee, USA (webpage, publications)

Editor-in-Chief, Biological Invasions
 
Associate Editors
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Golam Jalal Ahammed
Henan University of Science and Technology, China (webpage, linkedin publications) 

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East Tennessee State University, USA (webpage, publications)

Plant-animal interactions, plant ecology, pollination ecology/biology, community ecology

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Jeff Atkins 

Virginia Commonwealth University, USA (webpage, publications)

Ecosystem ecology, remote sensing, structure-function relationships, forest ecology

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Brian Atwell
Macquarie University, Australia (webpage, publications)

Environmental physiology; mechanisms of growth in primary tissues; responses to abiotic stresses
 
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Gabriela Auge
Fundación Instituto Leloir, IIBBA-CONICET, Argentina (webpage, publications)

Environmental plant physiology; seed biology and dormancy; plant growth and development; genetics of flowering

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Karina Boege
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (webpage, publications)

Evolutionary ecology; natural selection in multispecies assemblages; herbivory, pollination and competition; plant development

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Adrian C. Brennan
University of Durham, UK (webpage, publications)

Molecular, evolutionary and quantitative genetics; hybridization and invasions; adaptation and speciation; reproductive systems
 

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Tim J. Brodribb
University of Tasmania, Australia (webpage, publications)

Ecology and evolution of physiological processes; variation in water management strategies, among major plant groups; water stress
 

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Jean H. Burns
Case Western Reserve University, USA (webpage, publications)

Population and community ecology; biological invasions; plant-soil feedbacks; community assembly
 

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James F. Cahill
University of Alberta, Canada (webpage, publications)

Community ecology; plant competition and behavior; above/below-ground interactions; plant–animal and plant–fungal interactions; climate change
 

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Sílvia Castro
University of Coimbra, Portugal (webpage, publications)

Ecology and evolutionary biology; plant–animal interactions; diploid–polyploid complexes; endemic and endangered axa
 

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Kristine Crous

Western Sydney University, Australia (webpage, publications)

Plant physiological ecology; photosynthesis; respiration and metabolism; climate change

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Katharine Dickinson
University of Otago, New Zealand (webpage)

Plant ecology; plant–animal interactions; community ecology; conservation ecology
 

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Jeffrey S. Dukes
Purdue University, USA (webpage, publications)

Global change ecology; ecosystem ecology; biological invasions

 

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Inke Forbrich
Marine Biological Laboratory, USA (webpage, publications)

Ecosystem ecology, remote sensing, ecosystem-atmosphere interactions, wetland biogeochemistry, ecophysiology, climate change

 

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Dave Gorchov  
Miami University (webpage, publications)

Plant population ecology and community ecology, invasion of forests by exotic plant species, interactions between invasive shrubs and generalist herbivores, invasive shrub responses to forest disturbance

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Markus Hauck
University of Freiburg, Germany (webpage, publications)

Global change ecology; ecosystem ecology; forest ecology; plant ecophysiology; lichen biology
 

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Heidrun Huber
Radboud University, the Netherlands (webpage, publications)

Evolutionary biology and ecology; plant responses to environmental stresses; clonal plants; phenotypic plasticity
 

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Inderjit
University of Delhi, India (webpage, publications)

Community and ecosystem ecology; biological invasions; allelopathy

 

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Abdelbagi M. Ismail
International Rice Research Institute, Philippines (publications)

Physiology of crop species; plant responses to environmental stress

 

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Michael B. Jackson 
University of Bristol, UK (publications)

Founding Chief Editor, 2009–2012

Plant hormones and development; root-to-shoot communication; plant responses to abiotic stress, especially flooding
 

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Paula Jameson
University of Canterbury, New Zealand (webpage, publications)

Developmental plant physiology; plant hormones in growth and development; flower and seed development
 

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Daniel Johnson
University of Georgia, USA (webpage, publications)

Plant water relations, drought, fire, ecophysiology, anatomy

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Bao-Rong Lu
Fudan University, China (webpage, publications)

Evolutionary biology, conservation biology and population genetics; gene flow in agricultural systems; transgenic crops

 

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Xiangcheng Mi
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (webpage, publications)

Forest ecology; community ecology; mechanisms of species coexistence; phylogenetic structure of communities
 

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Patrick Mitchell
CSIRO Land and Water, Australia (webpage, publications)

Ecophysiology; global change; plant water relations and ecohydrology; plant carbon dynamics; drought and wildfire
 

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Mikio Nakazono
Nagoya University, Japan (webpage, publications)

Molecular genetics and physiology; mechanisms of stress tolerance in plants

 

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Takayuki Ohgushi
Kyoto University, Japan (webpage, publications)

Ecology and evolution of plant-herbivore interactions; indirect interactions; multi-trophic interactions; phenotypic plasticity
 

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Colin M. Orians
Tufts University, USA (webpage, publications)

Plant defence against herbivores; chemical ecology; biological invasions; plant responses to environmental variability
 

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F. Xavier Picó
Estación Biológica de Doñana, Spain (publications)

Ecology and genetics of plant populations; local adaptation and evolution in plant populations; genetic basis of life-history traits

 

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Nadine Ruehr
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany (webpage, publications)

Ecosystem carbon-water interactions, plant responses to environmental and climate change, with an emphasis on extreme stress responses, applying experimental approaches and process-based modeling
 

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Francisco I. Pugnaire
Arid Zone Experimental Station, National Research Council, Spain (webpage, publications)

Functional plant ecology; biodiversity conservation; global change; competitive and facilitative interactions; soil microbes; agroforestry
 

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Renate Scheibe
University of Osnabrück, Germany (webpage, publications)

Photosynthesis; energy metabolism; biochemistry

 

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Anna Traveset
Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEDEA, CSIC-UIB), Spain (webpage, publications)

Ecology and evolution of plant–animal interactions; pollination and seed-dispersal networks; biological invasions; influences on mutualisms

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Mario Vallejo-Marin
University of Stirling, UK (webpage, publications)

Plant diversity and evolution; reproductive strategies and pollination biology; hybridization, genome duplication and speciation
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Philippine Vergeer
Wageningen University, the Netherlands (webpage, publications)

Evolutionary ecology; conservation biology; plant responses to environmental change; fragmentation and environmental stress

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Yizhou Wang 
Zhejiang University, China (webpage, publications)

Plant cell and molecular biology, Plant stress physiology, System modelling

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Dennis Whigham
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, USA (webpage, publications)

Wetland & woodland ecology; landscape ecology; biological invasions
 

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Joseph H. Williams, Jr.
University of Tennessee, USA (webpage, publications)

Plant reproductive evolution; plant embryology; early angiosperm evolution

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Rafael D. Zenni
University of Lavras, Brazil (webpage, publications)

Invasion ecology; conservation biology; global change biology; mechanisms driving range expansions and contractions

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Wen-Hao Zhang
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (webpage, publications)

Environmental and molecular physiology; responses to mineral stress; messenger molecules and environmental stress