About the Journal

Scope

Functional Plant Biology publishes papers that contain new and significant information about plant functions and their regulation, especially in relation to changing environments. FPB encourages papers on emerging concepts and new tools in plant biology, and studies on the following functional areas encompassing work from the molecular through whole plant to community scale.

Focus areas:

Emerging science

Plant growth and development

Photosynthesis

Carbohydrate metabolism

Nutrient uptake and metabolism

Effective resource utilisation

Root-rhizosphere biology

Reproduction biology

Seed and fruit biology

Stress tolerance

Defence and protection

Viewpoint articles and focused reviews on these topics are welcome.

There are no arbitrary restrictions on the length of papers, and there are no page charges. FPB welcomes papers from any part of the world and uses expert reviewers from a wide range of countries.

Awards

Functional Plant Biology is pleased to offer an annual award for the best paper published in the Journal in each calendar year by an early-career scientist.

Affiliations

Functional Plant Biology is published in affiliation with several scientific societies.  As an additional resource for related website access our Sites of Interest page.

Bibliographic Information

ISSN: 1445-4408
eISSN: 1445-4416
Frequency: 12 issues per year
Current Issue: Volume 39 (1)
Impact Factor: 2.156 (2010)

Indexed/Abstracted in:

ABOA/Streamline

Agricola

Biological Abstracts

Biology and Environmental Sciences

BIOSIS

CAB Abstracts

Chemical Abstracts

Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences

Current Contents/Life Sciences

Elsevier BIOBASE/Current Awareness in Biological Sciences

Scopus

Reference Update

This Journal was formerly known as Australian Journal of Plant Physiology

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