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    The Plant Journal

Published in association with the Society for Experimental Biology
<http://www.sebiology.org>

*Edited by:*
Harry Klee

*Print ISSN:* 0960-7412
*Online ISSN:* 1365-313X
*Frequency:* Twice Monthly
*Current Volume:* 51 / 2007
*ISI Journal Citation Reports Ranking:* 2006: 6/147 (Plant Sciences)
*Impact Factor:* 6.565


  Top <#top>Author Guidelines


_*Instructions for Authors*_

Except in extenuating circumstances, only manuscripts submitted via the
journal's online site will be considered for publication. If assistance
is needed (or if for some reason online submission is not possible), the
Editorial Office can be contacted and will readily provide any help
users need to upload their manuscripts.
Contact: Sarah Threapleton (Submissions Manager), e-mail:
tpj-submissions@york.ac.uk <mailto:tpj-submissions@york.ac.uk> or
telephone: +44-1904-434594.

Full instructions for preparing and submitting manuscripts online are
provided at the submission site: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tpj.
Please note that manuscript submission online must be done from the
Corresponding Author's TPJ Manuscript Central account.

*Aims and Scope*

The aim of /The Plant Journal/ is to publish novel and exciting science
which addresses fundamental questions in plant biology.

For publication in /The Plant Journal/, the research must provide a
highly significant new contribution to our understanding of plants and
be of general interest to the plant science community.

All areas of plant biology are welcome in the journal and the
experimental approaches used can be wide-ranging.

With the completion of genome sequencing programmes, and availability of
new technologies and bioinformatics, the combined powers of genetics,
biochemistry and cell biology are leading to the very rapid production
of new information.  /The Plant Journal/ welcomes the results of these
functional genomics programmes, so long as the scientific question
rather than technology is driving the experimental research.

Two categories of manuscript can be submitted: primary research articles
and technical advances.  Submissions for the technical advance section
must be applicable and useful to a large proportion of the community and
not be narrow in scope, benefiting just a few laboratories. They should
describe new methods that substantively advance an area of plant
biology.  Manuscripts that describe very large incremental advances in
the uses of a current technology will also be considered, but variations
on existing methods, or vectors, will not be.  Manuscripts that describe
results already published but extended to another species will not be
considered unless there are substantive and demonstrable differences
between the two sets of data.

If authors have any concerns whether their manuscript comes within the
scope of /The Plant Journal/, they should e-mail a summary highlighting
the novelty and significance of the study to the Editorial Office
(tpj-general@york.ac.uk <mailto:tpj-general@york.ac.uk>), for advice
prior to full submission.

Authors are welcome to submit Supplementary Material, such as data sets
or additional figures or tables, that will not be published in the print
edition of the journal, but which will be viewable via the online edition.

Authors including microarray analysis should refer to the MIAME
recommendations
<http://www.mged.org/Workgroups/MIAME/miame_checklist.html> for guidance
in preparing their manuscripts. 

/The Plant Journal/ is covered by Blackwell Publishing's /OnlineEarly/
service. /OnlineEarly/ articles are complete full-text articles
published online in advance of their publication in a printed issue.
Articles are therefore available as soon as they are ready, rather than
having to wait for the next scheduled print issue. /OnlineEarly/
articles are complete and final. They have been fully reviewed, revised
and edited for publication, and the authors' final corrections have been
incorporated. Because they are in final form, no changes can be made
after online publication. The nature of /OnlineEarly/ articles means
that they do not yet have volume, issue or page numbers, so
/OnlineEarly/ articles cannot be cited in the traditional way. They are
therefore given a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), which allows the
article to be cited and tracked before it is allocated to an issue.
After print publication, the DOI remains valid and can continue to be
used to cite and access the article. More information about DOIs can be
found at: http://www.doi.org/faq.html.

*Submission of Manuscripts*

/The Plant Journal/ has no page or handling charges.

/The Plant Journal/'s online submission site can be found at
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tpj.
Submission online enables the quickest possible review and allows online
manuscript tracking. *Please note that manuscript submission online must
be done from the Corresponding Author's TPJ Manuscript Central account. *

Authors are now required to submit their manuscripts as individual
original files:
- Text as Microsoft Word, Rich Text Format or Post Script
- Figures as high-resolution TIFF, EPS or PDF files as appropriate
- Supplementary Material files as required.

*Please note: TPJ does not accept Microsoft Word 2007 documents at this
time. Please use Word's "Save As" option to save your document as an
older (.doc) file type.*

*For further information on file types, see the document 'Tips for
Uploading Files and Images on Manuscript Central' via the 'Get Help Now'
link in the top- right-hand corner of the screen.* These files will be
automatically converted to a PDF and an HTML document on upload.
Manuscripts should be formatted as described below in *'Presentation of
Manuscripts'*. When preparing your file, please use only standard fonts
such as Times, Times New Roman or Arial for text, and Symbol font for
Greek letters, to avoid inadvertent character substitutions. In
particular, please do not use Japanese or other Asian fonts.

*Check your proof carefully before final submission, both for
readability and to ensure that it includes everything it should.*

Supplementary Material and supporting documents may also be uploaded.
For any supporting documents, please indicate clearly what the document
is, as well as its format. The online site automatically converts Excel
files to PDF. However, as Supplementary Material is becoming
increasingly complex, any Excel file submitted as Supplementary Material
will be made available for review in its original format unless authors
specifically request otherwise. *Please note that the maximum file size
for each Supplementary Material file is 20 MB. *

Authors should select an Editor and provide names of potential reviewers
for their manuscript. Submission to the Editor closest to the field of
interest will speed reviewing. Suggested reviewers should not have been
advisors, advisees, co-authors or collaborators within the past 3 years.

You have the option of suggesting up to two potential reviewers who you
prefer were not selected to review your manuscript. IF YOU DO CHOOSE
THIS OPTION PLEASE STATE YOUR REASONS IN THE COVERING LETTER. IF REASONS
ARE NOT PROVIDED, YOUR REQUEST WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED. IF THE REASONS
INVOLVE CONFLICTS OF INTEREST THESE SHOULD BE EXPLAINED.

If you have any problems during submission, please contact the
Submissions Manager, Sarah Threapleton at tpj-submissions@york.ac.uk
<mailto:tpj-submissions@york.ac.uk> (tel: +44-1904-434594).

Related manuscripts in press or submitted elsewhere must be included.

All submissions will be considered by the Editorial Board to determine
whether they lie within the scope of the journal. Those that do will be
sent out for full review. Those that do not will be returned to the
authors quickly so that submission elsewhere will not be unduly delayed.

Revised manuscripts must be received by the Editorial Office within 2
months of authors being notified of conditional acceptance pending
satisfactory revision. Full instructions for submission of revised
manuscripts can be found below in *'Submission of Revised Manuscripts'*.
Authors resubmitting manuscripts should follow the same procedures as
for submission of new manuscripts.

All questions about the status of manuscripts under review should be
directed to the Editorial Office, and not to the Editor. Please use the
e-mail address tpj-manuscripts@york.ac.uk
<mailto:tpj-manuscripts@york.ac.uk> or phone number +44 1904 434337 for
such enquiries.

Correspondence relating to all other editorial matters should be
directed to:

Dr Irene Hames
Managing Editor
The Plant Journal Editorial Office
Department of Biology (Area 2)
University of York
York YO10 5DD
UK

Tel: +44 1904 434338/434594
Fax: +44 1904 434339
e-mail: tpj-general@york.ac.uk <mailto:tpj-general@york.ac.uk>

Papers are accepted on the understanding that no part has been, or will
be, published elsewhere. Publication of a paper in The Plant Journal
explicitly requires that authors will provide, for non-profit research,
all the biological and chemical materials not commercially available
that are used for the experiments reported. To ensure complete
transparency of this requirement, The Plant Journal requires authors to
state that these materials will be available on request. If materials
are not available within 4 weeks of manuscript acceptance, papers will
be rejected. Clearly, requests must be reasonable, particularly when
materials have required substantial effort for their production. Authors
must state at the time of manuscript submission, both in their cover
letter and in the Experimental Procedures, any restrictions that will
affect the sharing of materials and plant lines. Any IP restrictions on
use of methods should also be clearly stated. The reviewers will be
asked to determine the acceptability of these restrictions for publication.

Statements of priority or use of expressions such as 'first
demonstration' are not allowed. Authors should rather identify such
claims in their submission letters.

Submission of a manuscript to /The Plant Journal/ implies that all
persons listed as authors qualify for authorship, and all those who
qualify are listed. Each author should have participated sufficiently in
the work to take public responsibility for the content, and each author
must have approved the final version of the submitted manuscript.

Author material archive policy. Please note that unless specifically
requested, *Blackwell Publishing will dispose of all hardcopy or
electronic material submitted one month after publication in an issue.*
If you require the return of any material submitted, please inform the
Editorial Office or the Production Editor as soon as possible if you
have not already done so.

*Presentation of Manuscripts*

Only manuscripts in English will be published. Spelling should conform
to that in /The Concise Oxford Dictionary/ or /Websters New Collegiate
Dictionary/. All unusual symbols should be identified. Care should be
taken to differentiate between certain letters and numbers (e.g. the
letter O and zero, the letter I and the number 1).

Authors for whom English is a second language may choose to have their
manuscript professionally edited before submission to improve the
English. A list of independent suppliers of editing services can be
found at www.blackwellpublishing.com/bauthor/english_language.asp
<http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/bauthor/english_language.asp>. All
services are paid for and arranged by the author, and use of one of
these services does not guarantee acceptance or preference for publication.

*It is important to differentiate between genes and proteins*. All gene
names and loci should be italic; proteins should be upright.

*NEW: The Plant Journal now has a strict restriction policy on the
length of articles.* Any manuscripts that contain more than 7000 words
(to include all parts except the References and Supplementary Material)
will be returned to the authors without editorial or external review. 
*The total word count (excluding the References and Supplementary
Material) must be given on the front page of the manuscript.  A
breakdown of the word count for each section of the manuscript should
also be provided, including the References.*

All sections of the manuscript should be typed double-spaced with
margins of at least 30 mm all round. The title page should include: the
full title of the paper; the full names of all the authors; the name(s)
and address(es) of the institution(s) at which the work was carried out
(the present addresses of the authors, if different from the above,
should appear in a footnote); the name, address, telephone and fax
numbers and e-mail address of the author to whom all correspondence and
proofs should be sent; the e-mail addresses of all the authors if
possible; a suggested running title of not more than 50 characters,
including spaces; six key words (listed in order of importance) to aid
indexing; accession numbers for the sequence data and /Arabidopsis/ seed
stock if required; word count.

Generally, all papers should be divided into the following sections and
appear in the order: (1) Summary, not exceeding 250 words, (2)
Introduction, (3) Results, (4) Discussion, (5) Experimental procedures,
(6) Acknowledgements, (7) References, (8) Short legends for
Supplementary Material, (9) Tables, (10) Figure legends, (11) Figures.
The Results and Discussion sections may be combined and may contain
subheadings. Experimental procedures should be sufficiently detailed to
enable the experiments to be reproduced. Trade names should be
capitalized and the manufacturer's name and Web site given.

All pages must be numbered consecutively from the title page, and
include the acknowledgements, references, tables, and figure legends.

*Submission of Revised Manuscripts* 

Authors should submit the revised version of their manuscript online via
the submission site http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tpj following the
instructions provided in their editorial correspondence. Hard copy
materials are no longer required as, after acceptance, the authors'
files will be sent electronically to the Production Department. It is
very important therefore, that the files uploaded at revision are in
their final format and of sufficient quality for publication.  At
revision, authors should provide:

    * The manuscript text in Word format (all tracked changes removed).
      This file should be text only, and not contain figures. Tables
      must not be embedded but provided in editable format.
    * Figures as high-resolution TIFF, EPS or PDF files as appropriate.
    * Supplementary Material files as required. Please note that the
      maximum file size for each Supplementary Material file is 20 MB.
    * Brief supplementary legends should be provided within the main
      manuscript text file. If required, more comprehensive
      supplementary legends can be provided in a separate Word file.
    * Please also upload a copy of the text file with changes
      highlighted and ensure that you select 'Supporting Document' as
      this file designation.

A letter of response to the reviewers' comments, detailing point by
point the changes made and giving reasons for those not made, should
also be uploaded.

Revised manuscripts must be received within 2 months of authors being
notified of conditional acceptance pending satisfactory revision.
Revised manuscripts received after this time will be considered as
completely new submissions, and be subject again to the full review
procedure. This time limit will be rigidly adhered to except under
unusual circumstances, which must be explained in full, in writing, to
both the Handling Editor and the Managing Editor.

Revised manuscripts must be in their final form when submitted. The
proofs received later are for correction of typographical errors only.
They should not be used for final changes to articles; such changes must
be made to the manuscript before it goes to the publishers. Major
alterations to the text at proof stage will be charged to the author and
may delay publication.

Manuscripts should be checked very carefully for correct designation of
genes and proteins. It is important to differentiate between genes and
proteins. Gene names and loci should be italic, proteins should be upright.

A completed colour work agreement form
<http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/SN_Sub2000_X_CoW.pdf>must also
be returned with the revised manuscript if it contains colour. Failure
to return the forms will delay the publication of manuscripts if they
are accepted.

*Exclusive Licence Form. 
*Authors will be required to sign an Exclusive Licence Form (ELF) for
all papers accepted for publication. Signature of the ELF is a condition
of publication and papers will not be passed to the publisher for
production unless a signed form has been received. Please note that
signature of the Exclusive Licence Form does not affect ownership of
copyright in the material.  (Government employees need to complete the
Author Warranty sections, although copyright  in such cases does not
need to  be assigned).  After submission authors will retain the right
to publish their paper in various media/circumstances (please see the
form for further details). To assist authors an ELF can be supplied by
the Editorial Office. Alternatively, authors may like to download a copy
of the form Here <http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/tpj_caf.pdf>.

*Supplementary Material* 

Supplementary Material, such as data sets or additional figures or
tables, that will not be published in the print edition of the journal,
but which will be viewable via the online edition, can be submitted.
For information on how to submit files, please click Here
<http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/bauthor/suppmat.asp>.

It should be clearly stated at the time of submission that the
Supplementary Material is intended to be made available through the
online edition. If the size or format of the Supplementary Material is
such that it cannot be accommodated on the journal's Web site, the
author agrees to make the Supplementary Material available free of
charge on a permanent Web site, to which links will be set up
from /The Plant Journal's/ Web site. The author must advise
Blackwell Publishing if the URL of the Web site where the Supplementary
Material is located changes. The content of the Supplementary Material
must not be altered after the paper has been accepted for publication.

The availability of Supplementary Material should be indicated in the
main manuscript by a paragraph, to appear after the References, headed
"Supplementary Material" and providing titles of figures, tables, etc.
Full legends for Supplementary Material must also be provided as a
separate Word document. In order to protect reviewer anonymity, material
posted on authors' Web sites cannot be reviewed. If the size or format
is such that it cannot be submitted online, four copies on CD or disk
must be provided. The Supplementary Material is an integral part of the
article and will be reviewed accordingly.

*Units and Abbreviations*

Systme International (SI) units should be used, as given in /Units,
Symbols and Abbreviations/, published by the Royal Society of Medicine
Services Ltd, 1 Wimpole Street, London W1M 8AE, UK. Abbreviations
included in the list published in the final issue of each volume of /The
Plant Journal/ need not be defined. For a full list of abbreviations,
please click on Abbreviations
<http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/em1.pdf>. Other abbreviations
should be given in words the first time they are used.

*Scientific Names*

Complete scientific names should be given when organisms are first
mentioned. The generic name may subsequently be abbreviated to the initial.

*References*

*References in Articles
*We recommend the use of a tool such as EndNote
<http://www.endnote.com/> or Reference Manager <http://www.refman.com/>
for reference management and formatting.
EndNote reference styles can be searched for here:
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Reference Manager reference styles can be searched for here:
http://www.refman.com/support/rmstyles.asp

References should be cited in the text by author and date, e.g. Shah and
Klessig (1999). Joint authors should be referred to by /et al/. if there
are more than two, e.g. Sambrook /et al/. (1989). More than one paper
from the same author(s) in the same year must be identified by the
letters a, b, c, etc., placed after the year of publication. Listings of
references in the text should be alphabetical, e.g. (Sambrook /et al/.,
1989; Shah and Klessig, 1999). At the end of the paper, references
should be listed alphabetically according to the first named author. The
full titles of papers, chapters and books should be given, the
abbreviated names of journals, with the first and last page numbers.

*Examples*

*Lacomme, C. and Santa Cruz, S.* (1999) Bax-induced cell death in
tobacco is similar to the hypersensitive response. /Proc. Natl Acad.
Sci. USA/, *96*, 7956-7961.

*Sambrook, J., Fritsch, E.F. and Maniatis, T.* (1989) /Molecular
Cloning: A Laboratory Manual/ 2nd edn. Cold Spring Harbor: Cold Spring
Harbor Laboratory Press.

*Shah, J. and Klessig, D.F.* (1999) Salicylic acid: signal perception
and transduction. In /Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plant
Hormones/ (Hooykaas, P.P.J., Hall, M.A. and Libbenga, K.R., eds). New
York: Elsevier Science, pp. 513-541.

Work that has not been accepted for publication and personal
communications should not appear in the reference list, but may be
referred to in the text. It is the authors' responsibility to obtain
permission from colleagues to include their work as a personal
communication.

*Figures *

It is important that error bars are given on graphs.

With the exception of composite photographs suitable for full-page
reproduction (maximum width, including lettering, 16.8 cm), all other
figures should be set to a maximum width of 8 cm (including all
lettering). Labelling on the figures should be in 8pt Helvetica if
possible. Figure sections should be designated with lower case letters.
Magnification bars should be given on electron and light microscope
photographs.

Figure legends should contain sufficient information to be understood
without reference to the text, but should not contain methods. Each
should begin with a short title for the figure. All symbols and
abbreviations used in the figures should be explained. In the full text
online edition of the journal, figure legends may be truncated in
abbreviated links to the full screen version. Therefore the first 100
characters of any legend should inform the reader of key aspects of the
figure.

The journal welcomes colour photographs. It is the policy of /The Plant
Journal/ for authors to pay the full cost for the reproduction of their
colour artwork. Therefore, please note that if there is colour artwork
in your manuscript when it is accepted for publication, Blackwell
Publishing require you to complete and return a colour work agreement
form before your paper can be published. This form can be downloaded as
a PDF from the internet. The web address for the form is:

http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/SN_Sub2000_X_CoW.pdf

If you are unable to access the internet, or are unable to download the
form, please contact Dr Irene Hames, Managing Editor, at:

/The Plant Journal/
Department of Biology (Area 2)
University of York, Heslington
York YO10 5DD UK

Tel: +44  1904 434338/434594
Fax: +44  1904 434339
Email: tpj-general@york.ac.uk <mailto:tpj-general@york.ac.uk>

and a copy of the form will be emailed or FAXed to you. The charges are
150 for the first figure and 50 for each subsequent figure.

Once completed, please return the form to the Editorial Office at the
address given above.

Any article received by Blackwell Publishing with colour work will not
be published until the form has been returned.

To read PDF files, you must have Acrobat Reader installed on your
computer. If you do not have this program, it is available as a free
download from the following web address:

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

Under exceptional circumstances, authors may request waiver of these
charges. This *must* be done, in writing, *at the time of submission of
the manuscript*, and authors must justify to the Editors that inclusion
of the figure(s) in colour is essential for interpretation of the
results presented. *Figures reviewed in colour must appear in colour.
Any changes must first be agreed with the Editorial Office.*

*Electronic Artwork* 

Artwork should be supplied in electronic form. Vector graphics (e.g.
line artwork) should be saved in Encapsulated Postscript Format (EPS),
and bitmap files (e.g. half-tones) in Tagged Image File Format (TIFF).
Ideally, vector graphics that have been saved in metafile (.WMF) or pict
(.PCT) format should be embedded within the body of the text file.
Detailed information on digital illustration standards is available at:

http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/authors/digill.asp

*Tables*

Tables should be typed on separate sheets. They should have a brief
descriptive title and be self-explanatory. No vertical rules should be
used. Units should appear in parentheses in the column headings, not in
the body of the table. Repeated words or numerals on successive lines
should be written in full. Please ensure that all tables are presented
in an editable form - i.e. as text within a Word file rather than an
embedded image or a pdf file.

*Proofs *

Proofs will be downloaded as an Acrobat PDF (portable document format)
file. You will be notified by email when your proof is ready to
download, therefore, the corresponding author should supply their email
address when they submit their manuscript. Acrobat Reader will be
required in order to read this file. This software can be downloaded
(free of charge) from the following Web site:

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readermain.html

This will enable the file to be opened, read on screen, and printed out
in order for any corrections to be added. Further instructions will be
sent with the proofs. Proofs will be posted if no e-mail address is
available. In your absence, please arrange for a colleague to access
your e-mail to retrieve the proofs.

Major alterations to the text will be charged to the author and may
delay publication.

Please click here for instructions on how to register specific
Search/Notification criteria with Synergy so that You can receive an
e-mail alert when your article is published OnlineEarly. 
<http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/tpb_onlineearly.doc>

*Offprints*

Twenty-five offprints of each article will be supplied free. Additional
offprints may be purchased if ordered on the form supplied with the proofs.

*Registration of sequences*

All papers containing original nucleotide sequences must provide
nucleotide sequence database accession numbers.  Nucleotide data
submitted to any of the collaborating databases of the International
Nucleotide Sequence Database consortium, that includes EMBL, DDBJ and
GenBank, will be shared amongst them all. To obtain an EMBL accession
number, please use the EMBL submission tool, Webin, at
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/embl/Submission/webin.html. Full instructions are
provided online. Accession numbers can normally be provided within 2
days of completion of submission or 5 days for submission of large
amounts of data. Papers containing original amino acid sequences must
supply a UniProt/Swiss-Prot accession number. To obtain an accession
number, please use the UniProt/Swiss-Prot data submission tool (SPIN) at
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/swissprot/Submissions/submissions.html. Accession
numbers for protein submissions through SPIN are normally returned
within a week of submission. Nucleotide and amino acid sequence
accession numbers should be incorporated into manuscripts after the
References. Any paper which does not have its accession number(s) by
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