Plant Science highlights

It’s been a fabulous year for Frontiers in Plant Science — the #1 most-cited of all journals in the category of Plant Sciences, with an Impact Factor of 4.298.

The journal welcomed 969 new editors to the editorial board, who helped maintain a thorough peer-review process for the 32% more submitted articles this year.

2017 figures* for the journal include:

• 2,100+ published articles from 12,200+ authors

• Nearly 7 million new article views

• More than 1.6 million new article downloads

• 1 new section launched (Crop and Product Physiology)

• 5,487 editors

Thank you to our editors, reviewers and authors for these achievements, and we look forward to your continued collaboration in 2018.

Top research in 2017

Take a look at some of the top plant science articles this year — including exciting new research on gall formation, seagrass ecology and improved agricultural crops and systems.

Hottest Research Topics

• Plant pathogenic Ralstonia spp. from the field to the lab and back again: mechanisms of pathogen virulence and host resistance, population biology, community ecology and strategies for bacterial wilt disease management

• Plastid proteostasis: relevance of transcription, translation and post-translational modifications

• Optimising Miscanthus for the sustainable bioeconomy: from genes to products

One of the ten Research Topic finalists in the 2017 Spotlight Award was also published in Frontiers in Plant Science:

• Biotrophic plant-microbe interactions

Top article picks

• Using a structural root system model to evaluate and improve the accuracy of root image analysis pipelines

• Using population and comparative genomics to understand the genetic basis of effector-driven fungal pathogen evolution

• RNA interference (RNAi) as a potential tool for control of mycotoxin contamination in crop plants: concepts and considerations

• Ethanol enhances high-salinity stress tolerance by detoxifying reactive oxygen species in Arabidopsis thaliana and rice

• Generation of high-amylose rice through CRISPR/Cas9-mediated targeted mutagenesis of starch branching enzymes

• Rocking the boat: damage to eelgrass by swinging boat moorings

• Root-knot and cyst nematodes activate procambium-associated genes in Arabidopsis roots

• Progress in genome editing technology and its application in plants

• An efficient visual screen for CRISPR/Cas9 activity in Arabidopsis thaliana

• Morphological plant modeling: unleashing geometric and topological potential within the plant sciences

∗ To 30 November