The Journal of Plant Physiology is a broad-spectrum journal that welcomes high-quality submissions in all major areas of plant physiology, including plant biochemistry, functional biotechnology and molecular biology: growth and developmentphotosynthesis and respiration, metabolic pathways, transport and translocation, and plant responses to biotic and abiotic stress. Studies are welcome at all levels of integration ranging from molecules and cells to organisms and their environments and are expected to use state-of-the-art methodologies. Therefore pure gene expression studies are not within the focus of our journal. To be considered for publication, papers must significantly contribute to the mechanistic understanding of physiological processes, and not be merely descriptive, or confirmative of previous results. We encourage the submission of papers that explore the physiology of non-model species as well as accepted models species and those that bridge basic and applied research. For instance, studies on agricultural plants that show new physiological mechanisms to improve agricultural efficiency are welcome. Studies performed under uncontrolled situations (field conditions) will not be considered for publication.

《植物生理學雜志》是一本廣譜雜志，歡迎在植物生理學的所有主要領域提交高質量的論文，包括植物生物化學、功能生物技術和分子生物學:生長和發育、光合和呼吸、代謝途徑、運輸和易位，以及植物對生物和非生物脅迫的反應。從分子和細胞到生物體及其環境的各個層次的整合都歡迎進行研究，預計將使用最先進的方法。因此，純基因表達的研究并不是我們雜志的重點。為了考慮發表，論文必須對生理過程的機械性理解做出重大貢獻，而不僅僅是描述或證實先前的結果。我們鼓勵提交研究非模型物種、已被接受的模型物種以及連接基礎研究和應用研究的模型物種生理學的論文。例如，對農業植物的研究表明了提高農業效率的新的生理機制是受歡迎的。在不受控制的情況(實地條件)下進行的研究將不予考慮出版。