About this journal

Journal of Plant Interactions is a fully open access journal that publishes research on the interactions of plants with their surrounding environment.

Journal of Plant Interactions aims to inform all plant biologists, plant physiologists, ecologists, mycologists, microbiologists, agronomists, landscape architects, environmental engineers, entomologists, students and all researchers interested in biological struggle and sustainable use of natural resources.

The journal covers topics including:

• Plant-Plant Interaction
  All biochemical, physiological and molecular aspects of plant-plant interactions
• Plant-Microorganism Interaction
  Three fundamental sub-areas: Plant-Fungi; Plant-Bacteria and Plant-Virus Interactions
• Plant-Insect Interaction
  All aspects of interaction: from pest attack to plant attraction; from tritrophic interactions to biological control
• Plant-Human interactions
  Interaction of plant molecules with human health.
• Plant-Environment Interaction (open environment)
  This area is divided into two general sections: ‘open environment’ and ‘closed environment’. The first section covers all aspects of plants’ interaction with abiotic stresses present in the natural environments.
• Plant-Environment Interaction (closed environment)
  Research reports on artificial environments where plants live both on Earth and in space applications, Astrobiology, Biological Life Support Systems, remote sensing, biosensing and nanotechnology
  
• Plant-Soil Interaction (including Plant-Water Interaction)
  This area deals with nutrition, drought, flooding, restoration, phytoremediation, bioremediation, applied ecology, and all aspects where plants interact with the soil.

Journal of Plant Interactions accepts original research papers, short communications and review papers. Authors are encouraged to include Key policy highlights (3 to 5 in total) in their paper. These should have approximately 100 words, which set out the main findings of the paper that are of specific relevance to policy makers. These key policy highlights should be presented as a bulleted list of concise but complete sentences. They form part of the submission and will be published below the academic abstract.

Please note that this journal only publishes manuscripts in English.

The journal operates a double-anonymized peer review policy.

All articles are made freely and permanently available online through gold open access publication.

Editor-in-Chief

Massimo E. Maffei - Dept. Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, Italy

Manuscript Manager

Francesca Barbero - Dept. Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, Italy

Editorial Board

Plant-Plant Interactions (all biochemical, physiological and molecular aspects of plant-plant interactions)

Chunyang Li - Hangzhou Normal Univ, Coll Life & Environm Sci, Hangzhou 310036, Zhejiang, Peoples R China

Jonathan Millett - Loughborough Univ Technol, Ctr Hydrol & Ecosyst Sci, Dept Geog, Loughborough, Leics, England

Plant-Microorganism Interaction (Three fundamental sub-areas: Plant-Fungi; Plant-Bacteria and Plant-Virus Interactions)

Heather Whitney - University of Bristol, UK

Jorge Poveda, Biol Mission Galicia MBG CSIC, A Carballeira 8, Salcedo 36143, Pontevedra, Spain

Mickael Malnoy - Genomic and Advanced Biotechnology Unit, Edmund Mach Foundation , Italy

Paolina Garbeva - The Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Wageningen, Netherlands

Raffaella Balestrini - PhD Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection, C.N.R., Strada delle Cacce 73 Turin, Italy

Plant-Insect Interactions (all aspects of interaction: from pest attack to plant attraction; from tritrophic interactions to biological control)

Axel Mithoefer - Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Germany

Dai, Xiaohua, Gannan Normal Univ, Sch Life Sci, Leafminer Grp, Ganzhou, Peoples R China;

David Wari, Okayama Univ, Inst Plant Sci & Resources, Kurashiki, Okayama 7100046, Japan;

Emilio Guerrieri - Natl Res Council Italy, Inst Sustainable Plant Protect, Portici, NA, Italy

Francesca Barbero – Dept. Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, Italy

Gen-ichiro Arimura - Tokyo University of Science, Japan

Gianandrea Salerno - Univ Perugia, Dept Agr Food & Environm Sci, I-06121 Perugia, Italy,

Harro Bouwmeester - University of Amsterdam, Swammerdam Institute of Life Sciences

Heather Whitney - University of Bristol, UK

Ivan Galis, Institute of Plant Science and Resources, Okayama University, Japan.

Kaori Shiojiri - Tokyo University of Science, Japan

Lin, Po-An - Department of Entomology, National Taiwan University, Taiwan.

Martin Pareja - Univ Campinas UNICAMP, Inst Biol, Dept Anim Biol, Campinas, Brazil;

Raman Anantanarayanan - CSIRO (Health & Biosecurity), Underwood Avenue, Floreat Park, WA 6014, Australia

Wilhelm Boland - Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Germany

Plant-Human Interactions (interaction of plant molecules with human health)

Boris Nemzer - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States

Bren Urban - University of Primorska, Koper, Slovenia

Guiseppe Mannino - Dept. Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, Italy

Urszula Zlotek - University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Lublin, Poland

Plant-Environment Interactions (open environments: covers all aspects of plants’ interaction with abiotic stresses in natural environments)

Christian Damgaard - Department of Terrestrial Ecology, Denmark

Francesco Loreto - Istituto di Biologia Agroambientale e Forestale (IBAF), Italy

Ivan Paponov - Department of Food Science - Plant, Food & Climate, Denmark

Jacob Vered Tzin, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Karol Ujhàzy - Technical University in Zvolen, Slovakia

Kenji Matsui - Yamaguchi University, Japan

Penna Suprasanna - Homi Bhabha National Institute, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Trombay, Mumbai 400 085, INDIA

Plant-Environment Interactions (closed environment: artificial environments where plants live both on Earth and in space applications, Astrobiology, Biological Life Support Systems, remote sensing, biosensing and nanotechnology)

Stefania De Pascale - University of Naples, Naples, Italy

Yuke He - National Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, China

Plant-Soil Interactions (including Plant-Water Interaction, nutrition, drought, flooding, restoration, phytoremediation, bioremediation, applied ecology, and all aspects where plants interact with the soil)

Gianpiero Vigani - Dept. Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, Italy

Miroslav Nikolic - University of Belgrade - Institute for Multidisciplinary Research

Biography

Prof. Dr Massimo Maffei, Editor-in-Chief

Journal of Plant Interactions

Prof. Massimo Maffei is Full Professor of Plant Physiology in the Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, Italy

Prof. Maffei is author of over 200 scientific papers, editor of books, and author of several book chapters. He has been invited as Session Chairman at several international meetings in addition to regularly presenting invited lectures at international congresses. His research is focused on the study of the signal transduction pathway in plant-biotrophic interactions using metabolomics, confocal laser microscopy, electrophysiology and molecular biology techniques. He is particularly interested in astrobiology with reference to the effects of magnetic fields on plants.

Prof. Maffei is currently a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Molecular Sciences and Journal of Essential Oil Research, and regularly referees for other internationally renowned journals.

Dr. Francesca Barbero is Associate Professor at the Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin.

Her research is mainly focused on the study of multitrophic interactions in systems involving plants, butterflies and ants, to shade light on basic mechanisms responsible for the origin, evolution and maintenance of such relationships.

Francesca Barbero is author of invited reviews as well as of many research papers, bilingual monography and book chapters. She is Associate Editor for Insect Conservation and Diversity, Physics Today’s review advisors for books, guest editor for a special issue titled “Plant-Insect Interactions" in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences, and peer-reviewer for many ISI journals.

Francesca Barbero has been invited speaker at several international and national conferences and she is panelist for Romanian National Projects “Young Research Teams” and for the national prize "Young people and science"