The Plant Cell
Last updated ISSN 1040-4651
The Plant Cell is published by Oxford University Press in agricultural and biological sciences. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $4,934.
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What it publishes
Recent work in The Plant Cell concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Plant Molecular Biology Research
- Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
- Plant Reproductive Biology
- Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
- Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
- Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
- Plant tissue culture and regeneration
- Plant Gene Expression Analysis
- Light effects on plants
- Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
Key facts
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1040-4651, 1532-298X |
| Subject area | Agricultural and Biological Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $4,934 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 12,453 |
| Publishing since | 1951 |
| Journal website | www.plantcell.org/ |
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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