Frontiers in Plant Science – Science & research news

Unprecedented possibilities to study plant evolution: Chief Editors Jim Leebens-Mack and Gerald Schneeweiss launch new specialty

October 31, 2018

Chief Editors Jim Leebens-Mack and Gerald Schneeweiss launch new specialty on Plant Systematics and Evolution in Frontiers in Plant Science [...]

Cancer-fighting drugs also help plants fight disease

October 17, 2018

Image of plant leaf with fungus infection: The finding that anti-cancer drugs help plants fight disease could lead to new treatments for fungal and other plant pathogens: Frontiers in Plant ScienceThe finding that anti-cancer drugs help plants fight disease could lead to new treatments for fungal and other plant pathogens: Frontiers in Plant Science

The finding could help with efforts to develop disease resistance against fungal infections and other plant pathogens: Frontiers in Plant Science [...]

Journal impact: Frontiers in Plant Science

July 3, 2018

Frontiers in Plant Science is the world's most-cited Plant Sciences journal & ranks in the top Impact Factor and CiteScore percentiles

With an Impact Factor of 3.678, Frontiers in Plant Science is the most-cited journal in its field [...]

Cocoa CRISPR: Gene editing shows promise for improving the ‘chocolate tree’

May 25, 2018

Frontiers in Plant Sciences: The powerful gene-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 could help to breed cacao trees that exhibit desirable traits such as enhanced resistance to diseases

The powerful gene-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 could help breed cacao trees with desirable traits such as enhanced resistance to diseases: Frontiers in Plant Sciences [...]

Research in olive varieties steps up the fight against anthracnose

February 9, 2018

Research explores largest olive anthracnose epidemic recorded in decades and prompt more intensive research into this pathogen: Frontiers in Plant Science [...]

Taking the brakes off plant production: not so good after all

October 16, 2017

Speeding up the slowest part of photosynthesis to increase plant yield doesn't work in practice, finds a study in Frontiers in Plant Science [...]

New Section Launch: Crop and Product Physiology

October 2, 2017

Frontiers in Plant Science is pleased to announce the launch of a new section, ‘Crop and Product Physiology’ [...]

Combining genomics with farmers’ traditional knowledge to improve wheat production

July 26, 2017

Scientists demonstrate that the indigenous knowledge of smallholder farming communities may yield genomic targets useful for wheat breeding. [...]

How microbes affect plant life

May 23, 2017

The Research Topic, published in Frontiers in Plant Science & Frontiers in Microbiology, aims to cover all aspects of biotrophic plant-microbe interactions [...]

Corn yield modeling towards sustainable agriculture

December 15, 2016

Using crop models as a tool to assist nitrogen management decisions in corn as a win-win for the agronomy business and the environment — By Kate E. Larkin [...]

How growing more legumes could relieve economic stress

November 8, 2016

Two major dependencies can be alleviated by increasing legume cultivation. These are the dependency of nitrogen fertilizers and the dependency on imports. [...]

Don’t fear GM crops, they could help solve the sustainability crisis

September 12, 2016

by Emily Barker, Frontiersin.org Modified crops are nothing to be scared of and could be essential in solving the global sustainability crisis, explained Dr. James Lloyd, [...]

To survive climate change, plants must adapt – and fast

August 23, 2016

Researchers read into the biological history of plants to reveal how plants will survive when birds and bees fly away. [...]

Do trees go to sleep at night?

August 1, 2016

by Juan Jovel, Frontiersin.org It may sound like something from a fantasy book, but scientists have found that trees seem to go to sleep at night. One hour after sunset, tree [...]

Quality and Impact Analysis: Frontiers in Plant Science

November 24, 2015

Frontiers in Plant Science has an Impact Factor of 4.495 and is the largest and the most cited open-access journal in Plant Science. [...]

Quality and Impact Analysis: Frontiers in Plant Science

November 2, 2015

In just 5 years, Frontiers in Plant Science has become the 3rd largest and the 7th most-cited Plant Science journal in the world. The Impact Factor (IF), defined as the [...]