BMC Plant Biology
Last updated ISSN 1471-2229
BMC Plant Biology is published by BioMed Central in agricultural and biological sciences. It is open access. The article processing charge is $3,090.
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What it publishes
Recent work in BMC Plant Biology concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Plant Molecular Biology Research
- Plant Gene Expression Analysis
- Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
- Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
- Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
- Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
- Plant Reproductive Biology
- Plant responses to water stress
- Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
- Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology
Key facts
| Publisher | BioMed Central |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1471-2229 |
| Subject area | Agricultural and Biological Sciences |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $3,090 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 11,261 |
| Publishing since | 1972 |
| Journal website | link.springer.com/journal/12870 |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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