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Plant Systematics and Evolution is an international journal dedicated to publication of peer-reviewed original papers and reviews on plant systematics in the broadest sense. The journal aims to bridge the specific subject areas in plant systematics and evolution, encompassing evolutionary, phylogenetic, genomic and biogeographical studies at the population and higher taxonomic levels. Taxonomic emphasis is on all land plant groups in a wide sense, including fungi and lichens.
Fields of interest:
· plant systematics and taxonomy 
· plant evolution 
· biodiversity
· genetics 
· genome evolution 
· comparative and evolutionary genomics 
· genome sequencing
· bioinformatics 
· population genetics 
· reproductive biology 
· ecology 
· biogeography 
· palaeobotany 
· ultrastructure
· cytology
· anatomy
· palynology
· and plant development.
Plant Systematics and Evolution publishes original articles, review articles, invited review articles, new methods and resources, short communications, and special thematic issues. The journal does not levy page charges and provides free color in print.

Editors-in-Chief
Marcus A. Koch
Centre for Organismal Studies Heidelberg (COS Heidelberg)
Department of Biodiversity and Plant Systematics/ Botanic Garden and Herbarium Heidelberg (HEID)
Heidelberg, Germany
Martin A. Lysak
Plant Cytogenomics
Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC)
Masaryk University 
Brno, Czech Republic
Karol Marhold
Plant Science and Biodiversity Centre SAS
Bratislava, Slovak Republic
&
Department of Botany 
Faculty of Sciences 
Charles University
Praha, Czech Republic
Editorial Office & Managing Editors
Barbora Šingliarová
Katarína Skokanová
editorial-office-pse@savba.sk
Board of Associate Editors
W. de Beer, Pretoria, South Africa
F. Blattner, Gatersleben, Germany
J. M. Bonifacino, Montevideo, Urugay
K. Bull-Hereñu, Santiago de Chile, Chile
F. Celep, Kirikkale, Turkey
W. Durka, Halle, Germany
P. K. Endress, Zurich, Switzerland
J. Fuchs, Gatersleben, Germany
T. Hedderson, Cape Town, South Africa
M. Hesse, Vienna, Austria
H. de Jong, Wageningen, The Netherlands
M. Kolařík, Prague, Czech Republic
A. Kovarik, Brno, Czech Republic
H. Kudoh, Kyoto, Japan
J.H. Leebens-Mack, Athens, GA, USA
Y. Nemcova, Prague, Czech Republic
C. Oberprieler, Regensburg, Germany
C. Parisod, Bern, Switzerland
S. W. Peterson, Peoria, USA
R. Riina, Madrid, Spain
M. Ronikier, Krakow, Poland
L. P. Ronse De Craene, Edinburgh, UK
J. Schönenberger, Vienna, Austria
A. N. Sennikov, Helsinki, Finland
M. Thiv, Stuttgart, Germany
A. Tribsch, Salzburg, Austria
P. Vargas, Madrid, Spain
T. N. C. Vasconcelos, São Paulo, Brazil
N. Walden, Wageningen, Netherlands
L. Wanntorp, Stockholm, Sweden
H. Weiss-Schneeweiss, Vienna, Austria
Y. Zhao, Hangzhou, China