Journal of Plant Interactions is a peer reviewed open access journal, broadly publishing research that discusses interactions of plants with their surrounding environment. 

Subjects of interest include: 
Plant-Plant Interaction 
All biochemical, physiological and molecular aspects of plant-plant interactions are welcomed. 

Plant-Microorganism Interaction 
One of the widest sections covered by three fundamental sub-areas: Plant-Fungi; Plant-Bacteria and Plant-Virus Interactions. Responses to and interactions of plants with micro-organisms are the basics for understanding community dynamics and crop productivity, as well as the key to discovering new resistance genes for pest and disease attacks. 

Plant-Insect Interaction 
This area deals with all aspects of interaction: from pest attack to plant attraction; from tritrophic interactions to biological control. The presence of plants after millions of years of herbivore predation demonstrates plants have the ability to deter herbivore feeding. Similarly, the presence of herbivores after ages of plant toxin biosynthesis is the living evidence that insect herbivores can counteract plant poisons. 

Plant-Animal Interaction 
This area is intended for all studies concerning the effect of grazing on plant population and dynamics. Besides insects, monogastric and polygastric herbivores interact with plants with grazing activity. 

Plant-Environment Interaction 
This area is divided into two general sections: ‘pen environment’ and ‘losed environment’. The first section covers all aspects of plants’ interaction with abiotic stresses present in the natural environments (including atmospheric phenomena, light, temperature, pollution, etc.). The aim of the second section is to collect research reports on artificial environments where plants live (including greenhouses, growth chambers, etc.) both on Earth and in space applications. Remote sensing and biosensing are also covered here. 

Plant-Soil Interaction (including Plant-Water Interaction) 
This area deals with nutrition, drought, flooding, restoration, phytoremediation, bioremediation, applied ecology, and all aspects where plants interact with the soil. 

Manuscripts should show fundamental advances to existing knowledge and be of wide interest to the plant-interaction biology community. It is essential that a clear biological meaning and interpretation of the plant interaction is provided. Results should be supported by a sound statistical analysis. Preference will be given to manuscripts presenting evidence that answers important questions with a high degree of certainty and clarity. 

The Journal is of significance to all plant biologists, plant physiologists, ecologists, mycologists, microbiologists, agronomists, landscape architects, environmental engineers, entomologists, students and all researchers interested in biological struggle and sustainable use of natural resources.

Editor-in-Chief
  Massimo Maffei  - Faculty of Sciences, University of Turin, Italy

 
 Manuscript Manager
  Francesca Barbero  - Faculty of Sciences, University of Turin, Italy

 
 Editorial Board
 Anand Akhila - Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, India
 Graziella Berta - Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale "A. Avogadro", Italy 
 Guido V. Bloemberg - Leiden University, The Netherlands 
 Wilhelm Boland - Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Germany 
 Harro Bouwmeester -  University of Amsterdam, Swammerdam Institute of Life Sciences 
 Christian Damgaard - Department of Terrestrial Ecology, Denmark 
 Andreas Erhardt - Universität Basel, Switzerland 
 Stephen K. Farrand - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA 
 Gary W Frasier - Crops Research Laboratory, USA  
 Paolina Garbeva - The Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Wageningen, Netherlands 
 Yuke He - National Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genentics, China 
 Anton Hartmann - Institute of Soil Ecology, Germany 
 Francesco Loreto - Istituto di Biologia Agroambientale e Forestale (IBAF), Italy  
 Mickael Malnoy -  Genomic and Advanced Biotechnology Unit, Edmund Mach Foundation , Italy 
 Kenji Matsui -  Yamaguchi University, Japan 
Jean Charles Munch - Institute of Soil Ecology, Germany 
Guy Poppy - University of Southampton, UK 
Anantanarayanan Raman - Charles Sturt University, Australia
Junji Takabayashi - Kyoto University, Japan 
 Heather Whitney - University of Britsol, UK 
 Gen-ichiro Arimura -  Tokyo University of Science, Japan
 
 
Prof. Dr Massimo Maffei, Editor-in-Chief 
Journal of Plant Interactions 
Prof. Massimo Maffei is Full Professor of Plant Physiology in the Department of Plant Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Turin.
Prof. Maffei is author of over 150 scientific papers, editor of four books, and author of several book chapters. He has been invited as Session Chairman at several international meetings in addition to regularly presenting invited lectures at international congresses.
Prof. Maffei is currently a member of the editorial team on Journal of Essential Oil Research and EPPOS, and regularly referees for three other internationally renowned journals.
 
Dr. Francesca Barbero is a researcher of the Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin.
Her research is mainly focused on the study of multitrophic interactions in systems involving plants, butterflies and ants, to shade light on basic mechanisms responsible for the origin, evolution and maintenance of such relationships.
Francesca Barbero is author of invited reviews as well as of many research papers, bilingual monography and book chapters. She is Associate Editor for Insect Conservation and Diversity, Physics Today’s review advisors for books, guest editor for a special issue titled “Plant-Insect Interactions" in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences, and peer-reviewer for many ISI journals. 
  
Francesca Barbero has been invited speaker at several international and national conferences and she is panelist for Romanian National Projects “Young Research Teams” and for the national prize "Young people and science".