The cover of Vol 77 | Issue 7 | 2026 of the Journal of Experimental Botany, Special Issue: Seeds: The Birth of Plant Life. Coral coloured banners border the top and bottom of the page and in the centre the image depicts microscopy images of seeds at various stages, the caption being "Outside: histological sections of Arabidopsis imbibed seeds stained with auramine-O and calcofluor white to reveal lipids (purple) and cell walls (green), respectively. Centre: localization of expression of ProPEBP:PEBP-Venus in an embryo of an imbibed seed of Arabidopsis. All were observed by confocal laser-scanning microscopy. (Image credit: Juliette Puyaubert and Victoria Gomez, Sorbonne University.)"

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📘 Issue 7 of 2026 📘

🌱 Seeds: The Birth of Plant Life 🌱

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Fig. 1 (shortened, full legend in paper): Models of the regulation of nutrient- and drought-responsive flowering. Sugar-responsive flowering: in leaves, TPS1 catalyzes the synthesis of Tre6P from Glc6P and UDP-glucose, which inhibits SnRK1 activity and de-represses the CO–FT module and sugar transport/metabolism and flowering controlled by the SnRK1-phosphorylated and inactivated IDD8 TF. In the SAM, Tre6P inhibits SnRK1, affecting expression of SPL genes and the floral meristem identity genes LFY, FUL, and AP1. In leaves and/or the SAM, vernalization induces an increase in glucose levels, which activates TOR phosphorylation of FIE and represses FLC expression through changes in H3K27me3 levels at the FLC locus.

🌸💧🪾 FLOWERING NEWSLETTER REVIEW 🪾💧🌸

New research is starting to elucidate the molecular mechanisms of nutrient- and drought-responsive flowering with an apparent key role for the SnRK1 kinase – Sanagi et al.

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The cover of Vol 77 | Issue 5 | 2026 of the Journal of Experimental Botany, Special Issue: Energy Management: Molecular Mechanisms and Signaling. Yellow coloured banners border the top and bottom of the page and in the centre the image depicts a whiteboard illustration of the original concept behind the workshop ‘Plant Energy Management: Molecular Mechanisms and Signalling,’ held at UPSC, Sweden, in August 2024. The aim was to expand upon the original TOR meeting by focusing on the inputs and outputs of the core energy management machinery in a species-agnostic manner. (Credit: Benoît Menand, Johannes Hanson, and Vanessa Wahl.)

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📘 Issue 5 of 2026 📘

⚡🌿 Energy Management: Molecular Mechanisms and Signalling 🌿⚡

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🚨 SPECIAL ISSUE - FINAL CALL 🚨

📅 🪾💧 The Interdrought VIII special issue closes on 28 February 💧🪾📅

🌎 Guest edited by Mark Cooper, Carlos Messina, Karine Chenu & Amelia Henry 🌎

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🚨 SPECIAL ISSUE - CLOSING SOON 🚨

🔬 Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics in Plants 🔬

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📅 Closing date: 28 February 2026

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The cover of Vol 77 | Issue 3 | 2026 of the Journal of Experimental Botany, Special Issue: Plasmodesmata: Current perspectives on plant intercellular communication and signalling. Teal coloured banners border the top and bottom of the page and in the centre is an image of multicoloured Nicotiana benthamiana cells under a microscope. Fluorescent proteins (mTurquoise2, mEGFP, mCitrine, mScarlet-I) move between cells via plasmodesmata in the epidermis of N. benthamiana. (Image credit: Rory Greenhalgh, Jacob O. Brunkard.)

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📜 Issue 3 of 2026 📜

🔬 Plasmodesmata: Current perspectives on plant intercellular communication and signalling 🔬

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🚨 SPECIAL ISSUE - CLOSING SOON 🚨

🤖 Accelerating progress in plant science via AI-driven research 🤖

✍️ Guest edited by Johannes Kromdijk & Zoran Nikoloski

📅 Deadline: 31 January 2026

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Special issue outline: Plant Growth Substances Phytohormones are chemical relays that inform the plant about the state of the internal and external environment. Recent advances in this field include increasingly accurate quantitation of small molecule and peptide hormones, discoveries of how hormones enable inter-kingdom communication and immunity, and a clearer picture of how these signals evolved. Systems approaches are also allowing researchers to dissect how cell-type-specific interactions among multiple hormones shape distinct forms and functions. Together, the contributions in this issue highlight the continuing impact of studying plant growth substances on foundational questions, while also providing inspiration for novel methods for crop improvement. Interested in contributing? Please go to the link in the previous post for more info and to contact the editorial office.

Wide-ranging topics are covered in the expected papers so far, from signalling to stress responses and development 🌿 🔄 🍄 🌡️

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A postcard advertising the Plant Growth Substances special issue displaying an image of actin filaments (green) in a living epidermal cell of Nicotiana benthamiana. Also visible are peroxisomes (blue) and Golgi stacks (faint red spots) and chloroplasts (chlorophyll autofluorescence, large red structures). The ring of bright red chloroplasts on the left marks a pair of guard cells that define a stoma for gas exchange. The image is a maximal intensity projection of a confocal stack captured on the Leica SP8 laser scanning confocal microscope at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville Advanced Microscopy and Imaging Center by Kylie Smith.

🔬 UPCOMING SPECIAL ISSUE 🔬

🌱 Plant Growth Substances 🌱

✍️ Guest edited by Brad Binder, Jennifer Nemhauser, Mark Estelle & Junko Kyozuka

📅 Deadline 30 April 2026

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The cover of Vol 77 | Issue 1 | 2026 of the Journal of Experimental Botany. Special Issue: Advances in Plant Cell Biology. Light brown banners border the top and bottom of the page and in the centre is a microscopy image of ER (yellow) and chloroplast (turquoise) localised proteins transiently expressed in Nicotiana tabacum leaves. [Image taken by Graham Burkart (Brandizzi lab).]

📣 JXB Issue 1 of 2026 is out now - and it’s a special one! 📣

🔬 Special Issue: Advances in Plant Cell Biology 🔬

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Front cover of a postcard to promote an upcoming special issue of the Journal of Experimental Botany titled "Plant Phenomics & Enviromics Across Scales". The issue will be edited by Bertrand Muller, Roland Pieruschka, Xavier Draye, Jörg-Peter Schnitzler. The images on the postcard are: Top left Infected and healthy wheat heads as detected by AI models from NIR and RGB images. Top right Lowcost connected sticks. Centre left, top Heterogenity map based on satellite imaging. Centre left, bottom Root in rhizotrons at Ecotron Hasselt. Centre right LiDar imaging of apple tree orchards. Bottom AI based tracking of individual maize leaves over time.

🧬🌾📏 UPCOMING SPECIAL ISSUE 🧬🌾📏

📏 Plant Phenomics & Enviromics Across Scales 📏

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📅 Deadline 31 Mar 2026
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Intro paragraph to the special issue: The frequencies and severities of drought events are increasing. Many agricultural systems are already at risk, and some are in crisis conditions due to the impacts of long-term droughts. Solutions are required. The Inter-Drought conference is a global forum for researchers to share their latest findings. The eighth InterDrought conference will be held at La Serena, Chile from Nov 17-21. This special issue provides a synopsis of the meeting highlighting the key drivers of crop productivity and crop improvement strategies required for the 21st Century, our agricultural including topics of how to define the importance of drought in ouragricultural systems, measuring the levels of water availability and severity of drought in controlled environment and field experiments, drought responses at the molecular, organ, plant and crop level, breeding and agronomy solutions to achieve sustainable crop productivity for drought affected agricultural systems.

Check out some of expected reviews so far 📝
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Front cover of a postcard to promote an upcoming special issue of the Journal of Experimental Botany titled "Accelerating progress in plant science via AI-driven research". The issue will be edited by Johannes Kromdijk and Zoran Nikoloski. The image on the postcard is A stylistic representation of a neural network, representative of artificial intelligence advances, powering a growing plant (generated by ChatGPT).

🤖🌿 UPCOMING SPECIAL ISSUE 🌿🤖

💻 Accelerating progress in plant science via AI-driven research 💻
Guest edited by Johannes Kromdijk & Zoran Nikoloski

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Front cover of a postcard advertising a special issue of the Journal of Experimental Botany titled "Lipid function in the plant environment". The image shows the expression pattern of non-specific phospholipase C6 through developmental stages of flowers (blue color, histochemical staining of NPC6 fused with GUS reporter) and in pollens of an anther (middle image: green color, NPC6-Ven; red, auto-fluorescence) in Arabidopsis. Artwork courtesy of Anh H Ngo.

List of invited papers to the lipid function special issue: Lipids and lipid-derived compounds are funda- mental biological molecules with diverse function in plant growth and development. Recent advance in plant lipid research has revealed an emerging role of lipid molecules in environmental interactions, including plant stress response, develop- mental control, immunity, plant-microbe interaction. This special issue, which will be published in association with the 10th Asian-Oceanian Symposium on Plant Lipids (ASPL2025), will focus on the current trends in plant lipid research in the context of plant in- teractions with surrounding environment. The issue will deal with broad subjects of lipids and lipid-derived com- pounds in plant-environ- mental interaction, such as signaling, hormonal actions, developmental regulation, and abiotic/biotic stress responses. Invited Reviews Hiroaki Kato Recognition of pathogen-derived sphingo- lipids in Arabidopsis Takashi L. Shimada Lipid droplets have diverse func- tions in plant leaves Koichiro Awai & Hiroki Murakami Betaine lipids for stress response in photosyn- thetic organisms Haruhiko Jimbo Turnover of lipids in photosynthesis under changing environment Eunchul Kim Roles of lipids in plant photoprotection Hsou-min Li Galactolipids in shaping plastids Yasuyo Yamaoka Role of lipids in ER stress response Wei Ma Transcriptional control of lipid storage in developing seeds Sang-Chul Kim, Woe-yeon Kim, Xuemin Wang & Mi Chung Suh Interconnection between circadian clock and lipid metabolism Peter Dörmann Regulation of Tocopherol (Vitamin E) biosynthesis in Arabidopsis Morgane Michaud Lipid degradation and phosphate starvation in Arabidopsis thaliana Robert Schuurink The transcriptional regulation of terpene biosynthesis and its regulation by jasmonic acid Pan Liao The crosstalk between terpenoids and phe- nylpropanoids in plants •

📅 🚨 FINAL CALL 🚨 📅

🌏 🌿 Lipid Function in the Plant Environment Special Issue closes on December 31st! 🌿 🌏

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🚨 FINAL CALL 🚨

🔬 🧱 The Plant Cell Wall Biology Special Issue is closing at the end of December 🧱 🔬

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The cover of Vol 76 | Issue 21 | 2025 of the Journal of Experimental Botany, Special Issue: Tomato. Purple banners border the top and bottom of the page and in the centre is an image of a ripe tomato fruit on its truss (credit: Marine Honoré).

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🍅 Tomato - Issue 21 of 2025 🍅
📘 Guest edited by Yves Gibon, Diane Beckles, Sonia Osorio & Hiroshi Ezura

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Vol 76 | Issue 19 | 2025 Journal of Experimental Botany Peptides: A Treasure Chest of Structures and Functions Cover illustration: Plant peptides play critical roles in a plethora of developmental processes and stress responses. These biomolecules, derived from either the translation of short open reading frames or the proteolytic cleavage of protein precursors, can act as key signaling molecules, metabolic regulators, and structural components of larger complexes. With potential applications in agriculture, medicine, and beyond, the power of peptides and the importance of their study cannot be understated. (Image courtesy of Alyssa Kearly.)

📣 NEW SPECIAL ISSUE 📣

🌱 Issue 19 of 2025 - Peptides: A Treasure Chest of Structures and Functions

📘 Edited by Aleksandra Skirycz, Andrew Nelson & Alyssa Kearly

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Vol 76 | Issue 17 | 2025 Journal of Experimental Botany Plant Stress Physiology: Safeguarding Food Security in a Changing Climate Cover illustration: A typical landscape of the Brazilian Central Plateau: a field of jiló plants (Solanum aethiopicum) with a row of guariroba palms (Syagrus oleracea)—commonly used as natural property boundaries—visible in the background near Planaltina de Goiás. (Photo credit: Agustin Zsögön.)

📣 NEW SPECIAL ISSUE 📣

Issue 17: Plant Stress Physiology: Safeguarding Food Security in a Changing Climate

📘 Edited by Adriano Nunes-Nesi, Agustin Zsögön, and Wagner L. Araújo

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🚨 CLOSING SOON 🚨

The Special Issue on "Plant Proteostasis" closes on 30 November 2025 📅

📝 Edited by Pablo Manavella & Catharina Merchante

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🚨 SPECIAL ISSUE - CLOSING SOON 🚨

🌿🟡 Sulfur Signaling 🟡 🌿

📝 Edited by Markus Wirtz, Stan Kopriva & Hideki Takahashi

📅 Deadline: 30 November 2025

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Special issue outline (truncated here due to character limits, PDF available on JXB special issue page): The advent of single-cell and spatial omics technologies is transforming our understanding of plant biology by enabling unprecedented resolution of cellular identity, gene regulation, and intercellular communication. This special issue brings together cutting-edge research and perspectives highlighting how single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, ATAC-seq, and integrative multi-omics are being applied to dissect plant responses to abiotic and biotic stresses, source–sink dynamics, and developmental patterning. List of invited reviews authors and titles. Invitation to submit We welcome contributions to this special issue. If you would like to submit a paper, either research or review, please email a title and brief outline for the consideration of the guest editor. Closing date of 28 Feb.

🔬🧬 Here's a summary of the confirmed review papers so far:

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A postcard advertising the special issue on "Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics in Plants". Centred on the postcard is a graphic of a multicoloured leaf with a legend " A hypothetical spatial transcriptomic map of a leaf in response to diverse stresses (courtesy of Yiqing Wang)".

🧬 UPCOMING SPECIAL ISSUE 🧬

🔬 Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics in Plants 🔬

📝 Edited by Shahid Mukhtar

📅 Deadline: 28 February 2026

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🚨 SPECIAL ISSUE - CLOSING SOON 🚨

🌿 Plant Proteostasis 🌿

📝 Edited by Pablo Manavella & Catharina Merchante

📅 Deadline: 30 November 2025

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🚨 SPECIAL ISSUE - CLOSING SOON 🚨

🌿🟡 Sulfur Signaling 🟡 🌿

📝 Edited by Markus Wirtz, Stan Kopriva & Hideki Takahashi

📅 Deadline: 30 November 2025

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Front cover of a postcard to promote an upcoming special issue of the Journal of Experimental Botany titled "Plant Cell Wall Biology". The issue will be edited by George Haughn, Shawn Mansfield & Lacey Samuels. There are two images on the postcard: Above Cross-section of a developing Arabidopsis seed (courtesy of George Haughn, UBC Botany). Left Holly leaf skeleton showing the vasculature of lignified plant cell walls (courtesy of Lacey Samuels, UBC Botany).

🌿 UPCOMING SPECIAL ISSUE 🌿

🔬🧱 Plant Cell Wall Biology 🧱🔬

Editors: George Haughn, Shawn Mansfield & Lacey Samuels

📅 Deadline: 31 December 2025

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🚨 SPECIAL ISSUE - CLOSING SOON 🚨

⛰️🌊 Plants and low oxygen ⛰️🌊

📅 Deadline: 31 October

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Vol 76 Issue 15 2025 Journal of Experimental Botany Plant Proteases: Guardians of Proteome Integrity and Function Cover illustration: Proteases play key roles in guarding proteome integrity and regulating protein function. The reviews and research articles in this special issue put a timely spotlight on the fascinating diversity, function and regulation of proteases in plants. Selected topics rise as bubbles above University of Hohenheim, where they were first presented at the 6th International Conference on Plant Proteases (photo courtesy of Universität Hohenheim/Maximilian Pircher; logo by Renier van der Hoorn). See Jeran et al., pp. 4294–4312; Peiyi Wang et al., pp. 4359–4373; Mantz et al., pp. 4279–4293; Calvanese et al., pp. 4326–4339; Fei Wang et al., pp. 4220–4231.

📣 NEW SPECIAL ISSUE 📣

🔬Plant Proteases - Guardians of Proteome Integrity & Function
🌱 Exploring the fascinating diversity, function & regulation of proteases in plants

📘 Edited by Pitter Huesgen, Annick Stintzi & Andreas Schaller

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Rear side of a postcard to promote an upcoming special issue of the Journal of Experimental Botany titled "Molecular Coding of Specificity in plant Processes". This side gives the expected reviews, and the issue deadline of 30th Sept 2025.

Here's a summary of the confirmed review papers so far... 🧬🔬🌿
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Front cover of a postcard to promote an upcoming special issue of the Journal of Experimental Botany titled "Molecular Coding of Specificity in plant Processes". The issue will be edited by Julien Gronnier, Ruth Großeholz, Klaus Harter and Laura Ragni. The image depicts the logo of CRC 1101 “Molecular Encoding of Specificity in Plant Processes“ - carried by groups of 3 German Universities and funded by the DFG, deals with the challenge of understanding specificity in plant processes by application of methods reaching from structure determination, high-end spectromicroscopy and biochemistry over forward and reverse genetics to big data science and computational modelling. This special issue will summarize some recent advances made by CRC 1101 members but also welcomes contributions from colleagues working in this research area.

🌱 SPECIAL ISSUE CLOSING 🌱

🌱 Molecular Coding of Specificity in Plant Processes

Editors: Julien Gronnier, Ruth Großeholz, Klaus Harter &
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Closing 30th Sept '25

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