The Journal of Plant Research is an international journal dedicated to the dissemination of fundamental knowledge in all areas (see below disciplines) of basic plant sciences. In addition, the journal welcomes papers in interdisciplinary areas and in newly developing areas of basic plant biology. The journal especially encourages publication of work based on unique approaches and those reporting unprecedented findings. Papers that are purely descriptive with no clear hypothesis are not suitable for this journal. Manuscripts in the area of applied plant sciences, such as agricultural or medicinal research, are accepted only if the manuscripts contribute to basic plant sciences. (Disciplines) taxonomy, phylogeny, evolutionary biology, morphology, anatomy, structural biology, ecology, ecophysiology, environmental biology, genetics, developmental biology, physiology, cell biology, molecular biology, biochemistry, biophysics, bioinformatics, theoretical biology, and systems biology.