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	Plant Molecular Biology An International Journal on Molecular Biology, Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry Editor-in-Chief: Wilhelm Gruissem ISSN: 0167-4412 (print version) ISSN: 1573-5028 (electronic version) Journal no. 11103 Springer Netherlands Online version available

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Manuscript Submission

All manuscripts should be submitted using the journals online manuscript submission system. The Plant Molecular Biology Editorial Board is committed to a rapid editorial review process and will inform authors of the status of their manuscript as quickly as possible.

Springer is pleased to offer to authors, editors and reviewers of Plant Molecular Biology the option to use the fully webenabled online manuscript submission and review system. Our online manuscript submission and review system offers authors the option to track in real time the progress of the review process of their manuscripts.

Plant Molecular Biology's Online manuscript and review system offers easy and straightforward log−in and submission procedures. It supports a wide range of submission file formats, including: Word, WordPerfect, RTF, TXT, TIFF, GIF, JPEG, EPS, Postscript, PICT. PDF is not an acceptable file format.

Authors are requested to download the Consent to Publish and Transfer of Copyrights form from this website. Please send a completed and duly signed form either by mail or fax to the Plant Molecular Biology's Editorial Office. Authors should still follow the regular instructions for authors when preparing their manuscripts (see below).

The journal only accepts manuscripts written in English. British or American English spelling and terminology may be used, but either should be followed consistently throughout the article. Manuscripts should be typewritten on A4 or US Letter bond paper, leaving adequate margins (one inch minimum) on all sides for referees' remarks. Please double−space all materials, including notes and references. Quotations of more than 40 words should be set off clearly, either by indenting the left−hand margin or by using a smaller typeface. Use double quotations marks for direct quotations and single quotation marks for quotations within quotations and for words or phrases used in a special sense.

Manuscripts should be submitted to:

http://plan.editorialmanager.com

Manuscript Presentation

Plant Molecular Biology accepts the following categories of papers:

1. General papers: There is no fixed limit on the length of full−length research articles but a concise presentation is encouraged.

2. Minireviews: Short reviews on timely topics are solicited from experts in the field. Authors who wish to submit a (mini−)review should contact the Editor−in−Chief, since only (mini−)reviews on selected topics will be considered for publication. All (mini−)reviews are subject to normal review. If a full paper contains any new DNA sequence data, these must first be deposited in GenBank or the EMBL databank. The accession number obtained should be incorporated in a footnote on the titlepage of the manuscript.

Number the pages consecutively with the first page containing:

	title
	author(s)
	affiliation(s)
	full address for correspondence, including telephone and fax number and e−mail address

Abstract and Key Words

Please provide a short abstract of 100 to 250 words. The abstract should not contain any undefined abbreviations or unspecified references. Begin on a new page. Please provide a maximum of 6 key words or short phrases in alphabetical order.

Abbreviations

Abbreviations and their explanations should be collected in a list. Abbreviations should be explained at first occurrence.

Symbols and Units

Metric units and Celsius (Centigrade) temperatures should be used for all measurements. SI units should be used throughout.

Nomenclature

	Chemical and biochemical Names of chemical compounds follow the Chemical Abstracts (Chemical Abstract Service, Ohio State University, Columbus) and its indexes. Biochemical terminology, including abbreviations and symbols, follows the recommendations of the IUPAC−IUB Commission on Biochemical Nomenclature. Enzyme activity in units follows the Enzyme Nomenclature (Academic Press, 1979). For summaries of the abbreviations consult Journal of Biological Chemistry, Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics and the Handbook of Biochemistry (H.A. Sober, Chemical Rubber Company, Cleveland, latest edition).
	Taxonomical Binary nomenclature: names of genera and higher categories may be used alone. ·
	Genetic Application of the term phenotype and genotype should be in accordance with Demerec et al. (Genetics 54: 61−74, 1966). For summaries of the abbreviations, consult Journal of Bacteriology, Instructions to Authors.

Figures and Tables

Submission of electronic figures

Authors are requested to upload the electronic versions of figures in either Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) or TIFF format. Many other formats, e.g., Microsoft Postscript, PiCT (Macintosh) and WMF (Windows), cannot be used and the hard copy will be scanned instead.

Figures should be saved in separate files without their captions, which should be included with the text of the article. Files should be named according to DOS conventions, e.g., `figure1.eps'. For vector graphics, EPS is the preferred format. Lines should not be thinner than 0.25pts and in−fill patterns and screens should have a density of at least 10%. Font−related problems can be avoided by using standard fonts such as Times Roman and Helvetica. For bitmapped graphics, TIFF is the preferred format but EPS is also acceptable. The following resolutions are optimal: black−and−white line figures − 600 − 1200 dpi; line figures with some grey or coloured lines − 600 dpi; photographs − 300 dpi; screen dumps − leave as is. Higher resolutions will not improve output quality but will only increase file size, which may cause problems with printing; lower resolutions may compromise output quality. Please try to provide artwork that approximately fits within the typeset area of the journal. Especially screened originals, i.e. originals with grey areas, may suffer badly from reduction by more than 10−15%.

Each figure and table should be numbered and mentioned in the text. The approximate position of figures and tables should be indicated in the text (in italics, to stand out). Figures and tables should be placed at the end of the manuscript following the Reference section. Each figure and table should be accompanied by an explanatory legend. The figure legends should be grouped and placed on a separate page. In tables, footnotes are preferable to long explanatory material in either the heading or body of the table.

Section Headings

First−, second−, third−, and fourth−order headings should be clearly distinguishable but not numbered.

Appendices and Supplementary Material

Authors who wish to publish electronic supplementary material to their article (Excel files, images, audio/video files) are requested to submit these with their manuscript via our online submission system.

Notes

Please use footnotes rather than endnotes. Notes should be indicated by consecutive superscript numbers in the text. A source reference note should be indicated by means of an asterisk after the title. This note should be placed at the bottom of the first page.

Cross−Referencing

In the text, a reference identified by means of an author's name should be followed by the date of the reference in parentheses and page number(s) where appropriate. When there are more than two authors, only the first author's name should be mentioned, followed by `et al.'. In the event that an author cited has had two or more works published during the same year, the reference, both in the text and in the reference list, should be identified by a lower case letter like `a' and `b' after the date to distinguish the works.

Examples:

Winograd (1986, p. 204)

(Winograd, 1986a,b)

(Winograd, 1986; Flores et al., 1988)

(Bullen and Bennett, 1990)

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements of people, grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a separate section before the References.

References

1. Journal article:

Smith J, Jones M Jr, Houghton L et al (1999) Future of health insurance. N Engl J Med 965:325–329

2. Inclusion of issue number (optional):

Saunders DS (1976) The biological clock of insects. Sci Am 234(2):114–121

3. Journal issue with issue editor:

Smith J (ed) (1998) Rodent genes. Mod Genomics J 14(6):126–233

4. Journal issue with no issue editor:

Mod Genomics J (1998) Rodent genes. Mod Genomics J 14(6):126–233

5. Book chapter:

Brown B, Aaron M (2001) The politics of nature. In: Smith J (ed) The rise of modern genomics, 3rd edn. Wiley, New York

6. Book, authored:

South J, Blass B (2001) The future of modern genomics. Blackwell, London

7. Book, edited:

Smith J, Brown B (eds) (2001) The demise of modern genomics. Blackwell, London

8. Chapter in a book in a series without volume titles:

Schmidt H (1989) Testing results. In: Hutzinger O (ed) Handbook of environmental chemistry, vol 2E. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York, p 111

9. Chapter in a book in a series with volume title:

Smith SE (1976) Neuromuscular blocking drugs in man. In: Zaimis E (ed) Neuromuscular junction. Handbook of experimental pharmacology, vol 42. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York, pp593–660

10. Proceedings as a book (in a series and subseries):

Zowghi D et al (1996) A framework for reasoning about requirements in evolution. In: Foo N, Goebel R (eds) PRICAI'96: topics in artificial intelligence. 4th Pacific Rim conference on artificial intelligence, Cairns, August 1996. Lecture notes in computer science (Lecture notes in artificial intelligence), vol 1114. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York, p 157

11. Proceedings with an editor (without a publisher):

Aaron M (1999) The future of genomics. In: Williams H (ed) Proceedings of the genomic researchers, Boston, 1999

12. Proceedings without an editor (without a publisher):

Chung S-T, Morris RL (1978) Isolation and characterization of plasmid deoxyribonucleic acid from Streptomyces fradiae. In: Abstracts of the 3rd international symposium on the genetics of industrial microorganisms, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 4–9 June 1978

13. Paper presented at a conference:

Chung S-T, Morris RL (1978) Isolation and characterization of plasmid deoxyribonucleic acid from Streptomyces fradiae. Paper presented at the 3rd international symposium on the genetics of industrial microorganisms, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 4–9 June 1978

14. Patent:

Name and date of patent are optional

Norman LO (1998) Lightning rods. US Patent 4,379,752, 9 Sept 1998

15. Dissertation:

Trent JW (1975) Experimental acute renal failure. Dissertation, University of California

16. Institutional author (book):

International Anatomical Nomenclature Committee (1966) Nomina anatomica. Excerpta Medica, Amsterdam

17. Non-English publication cited in an English publication:

Wolf GH, Lehman P-F (1976) Atlas der Anatomie, vol 4/3, 4th edn. Fischer, Berlin. [NB: Use the language of the primary document, not that of the reference for "vol" etc.!]

18. Non-Latin alphabet publication:

The English translation is optional.

Marikhin VY, Myasnikova LP (1977) Nadmolekulyarnaya struktura polimerov (The supramolecular structure of polymers). Khimiya, Leningrad

19. Published and In press articles with or without DOI:

19.1 In press

Wilson M et al (2006) References. In: Wilson M (ed) Style manual. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York (in press)

19.2. Article by DOI (with page numbers)

Slifka MK, Whitton JL (2000) Clinical implications of dysregulated cytokine production. J Mol Med 78:74–80. DOI 10.1007/s001090000086

19.3. Article by DOI (before issue publication with page numbers)

Slifka MK, Whitton JL (2000) Clinical implications of dysregulated cytokine production. J Mol Med (in press). DOI 10.1007/s001090000086

19.4. Article in electronic journal by DOI (no paginated version)

Slifka MK, Whitton JL (2000) Clinical implications of dysregulated cytokine production. Dig J Mol Med. DOI 10.1007/s801090000086

20. Internet publication/Online document

Doe J (1999) Title of subordinate document. In: The dictionary of substances and their effects. Royal Society of Chemistry.Available via DIALOG. http://www.rsc.org/dose/title of subordinate document. Cited 15 Jan 1999

20.1. Online database

Healthwise Knowledgebase (1998) US Pharmacopeia, Rockville. http://www.healthwise.org. Cited 21 Sept 1998

Supplementary material/private homepage

Doe J (2000) Title of supplementary material. http://www.privatehomepage.com. Cited 22 Feb 2000

University site

Doe J (1999) Title of preprint. http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/mydata.html. Cited 25 Dec 1999

FTP site

Doe J (1999) Trivial HTTP, RFC2169. ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2169.txt. Cited 12 Nov 1999

Organization site

ISSN International Centre (1999) Global ISSN database. http://www.issn.org. Cited 20 Feb 2000

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Offprints

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Cover

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