About the Journal
The American Journal of Plant Biology (AJPB) is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to advancing fundamental and applied knowledge of plants across molecular, organismal, and ecosystem scales. Our mission is to publish rigorous, reproducible science that supports sustainable agriculture, biodiversity conservation, and bio-based innovation.
AJPB welcomes original research articles, reviews, short communications, methods, data papers, and case studies. Interdisciplinary submissions that connect plant science with ecology, engineering, informatics, and policy are encouraged. Core areas include:
- Genomics, Transcriptomics, Epigenetics, and Systems Biology
- Plant Development, Cell Biology, and Morphogenesis
- Physiology, Photosynthesis, and Primary/Secondary Metabolism
- Plant–Microbe, Plant–Insect, and Plant–Environment Interactions
- Abiotic/Biotic Stress Biology and Climate Resilience
- Ecology, Evolution, Biogeography, and Conservation
- Crop Science, Breeding, and Quantitative Genetics
- Phytochemistry, Natural Products, and Metabolomics
- Plant Biotechnology, Genome Editing, and Synthetic Biology
- Bioinformatics, Phenotyping, and Imaging
- Plant Pathology, Mycology, and Virology
- Soil–Plant–Microbiome Systems and Rhizosphere Processes
All manuscripts undergo rigorous double-blind peer review managed by an international editorial board. We support open science practices including data and code availability, preregistration where appropriate, and detailed methods reporting.
As an open-access journal, AJPB provides immediate, free access to all articles to promote equitable knowledge sharing and accelerate discovery.
The journal is published quarterly and is working toward inclusion in leading indexing services to maximise the visibility and impact of authors’ work.