Collection
Special Issues
In addition to its regular issues, the Journal of Experimental Botany publishes Special Issues comprising of reviews and articles often connected to specialised scientific meetings or a session at a meeting. Special Issues provide a comprehensive overview of each research topic as well as highlighting new developments, and as such they are a valuable resource for teaching and research purposes. Please see below for a list of all our published special issues. Clicking the link will take you to the issue.
Upcoming
Find out more about upcoming special issues of JXB as well as those that are currently open for submissions.
2025
2024
2023
2022
- Plant Organellar Signalling
- Target of Rapamycin Signalling in Photosynthetic Organisms
- Phytomelatonin – an Emerging New Plant Hormone
- Plant Phenotyping for a Sustainable Future
- Advances in Bryophyte Research
- Exploiting the Natural Genetic Variation in Photosynthesis and CO2 Assimilation
- Plant Lipids: Trends and Beyond
- Essential Trace Metals in Plants—Micronutrients with Impact
- Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds: Mediators of Inter-organism Interactions
- Mechanical Ecology – Taking Biomechanics to the Field
2021
- High and Low Temperature Signalling and Response
- The Quiescent Center and Root Apical Meristem: Organization and Function
- 70th Anniversary—Plant Metabolism in a Changing World
- Plant Responses to Environmental Stress
- Plant Production in Water-Limited Environments
- Plant Productivity: from the Canopy to the Nucleus
- Plant Proteases: from Molecular Mechanisms to Functions in Development and Immunity
- Advances in Iron Nutrition and Interactions in Plants
- Nitric Oxide in Plant Biology
- Genetic Encoding of Complex Traits
2020
- Significance of Silicon in Plants
- Impact of Chromatin Domains on Plant Phenotypes
- Plant Nitrogen Nutrition: from Cell to Field
- Green Life in Extreme Environments
- Understanding the Algae to Land Plant Transition
- Plant Organ and Tip Growth
- Innovations in Agriculture for Food Security
- Plant Signaling in Biotic and Abiotic Stress
- Climate Change Impacts on Plants
2019
- New perspectives in CAM biology
- Multifaceted Roles of Nitric Oxide in Plants
- Sulfur nutrition: impacts on plant development, metabolism, and stress responses
- Plant Biomechanics: Force, Form, and Function
- Jasmonates: what allene oxide synthase does for plants
- Advances in plant reproduction: from gametes to seeds
- Process-based Crop Simulation Models: from Model Improvement to Phenotype Prediction
- Target of Rapamycin kinase: central regulatory hub for plant growth and metabolism
- Plant proteases and programmed cell death
2018
- Orchestrating the Proteome with Post-Translational Modifications
- 'Calcium is life'
- ROS and RNS: key molecules with dual functions in plants
- Crop Drought Tolerance: From Alleles to Cropping Systems
- Molecular Mechanisms Controlling Plant Growth During Abiotic Stress
- Strigolactones: New Plant Hormones in Action
- Plant Autophagy: Mechanisms and Functions
- Plant Senescence
- Recent Advances in Auxin Biology
- Exploring Unconventional Trafficking Pathways in Plants
2017
- The Plant Cuticle: Old Challenges, New Perspectives
- Carbon Concentrating Mechanisms in Aquatic Photosynthesis
- The Changing Climate of Plant Membrane Biology
- Nitrogen Nutrition in Plants: Rapid Progress and New Challenges
- Legumes: from Food Security to Climate Change
- The Flowering of Jasmonate Research
- Seed Development, Maturation, and Germination: Joining the Dots
- C4 Photosynthesis: 50 Years of Discovery and Innovation
- Making Connections: Plant Vascular Tissue Development
2016
- Senescence and Programmed Cell Death
- Plant Peptides – Taking Them to the Next Level
- Plant Organellar Signalling
- From Inspiration to Impact: Delivering Value from Global Root Research
- Photorespiration: Origins and Metabolic Integration in Interacting Compartments
- The Interface Between Abiotic and Biotic Stress Responses
- Plant Roots: New Challenges in a Changing World
- From the Nucleus to the Apoplast: Building the Plant's Cell Wall
2015
- Phenotyping in Plants
- Peptides take centre stage in Plant Signalling
- Hormone Crosstalk in Plants
- Plants and Bioenergy
- Breeding Plants to Cope with Future Climate Change
- Reactive Oxygen and Reactive Nitrogen Signalling Networks in Plants
- Roots to Global Food Security
- Membrane–Protein Interactions in Plants: Why, When and How?
- Plant Nuclear Envelope, Nuclear Structure and Nucleoskeleton
- Plant Organ Growth Control
- Mechanisms of Plant–Insect Interactions
2014
- Integrated Approaches to Sustain and Improve Crop Production under Drought Stress
- Plant Nitrogen Nutrition
- Fruit Development and Ripening
- Plant Senescence
- C4 and CAM Photosynthesis in the New Millennium
- Plant Photobiology
- Plant Cell Cycle Chromatin and Epigenetics
- Plant Vascular Trafficking
- Oxidative Stress and Cell Death
- Nutrient Sensing and Signalling
2013
- Peptide Signalling
- Plant Biomechanics and Mechanobiology
- Techniques in EcoPhysiology
- Auxin
- Roots and Productivity
- Improving Photosynthesis
2012
- Regulation of Resource Allocation and Growth
- Roots and Rhizosphere Processes
- Pathways and Fluxes: Exploring the Plant Metabolic Network
- Organellar Signalling
- Food Security
2011
- Exploiting the engine of C4 photosynthesis (May 2011)
- Plant Membrane Biology
- Plant Reproductive Development: from Recombination to Seeds
- Nitrogen: Molecular Biology, Ecophysiology and Beyond
- Interdrought Collection
2010
- Plant modelling: new approaches to an old subject
- Pollen Tube Dynamics, Tip Growth and the Control of Pollination
2009
- Crop Science for a Changing Climate and Plant Biomass for Food and Energy
- Mesophyll conductance to CO2: mechanisms, modelling, and ecological implications
- Perspectives on Plant Development
2008
- Photosynthesis: CO2 Uptake and the Pathways of Carbon Fixation
- Symbioses and Symbiotic Interactions
- Transport of Plant Growth Regulators
2007
- Nitrogen Nutrition Special Issue
- Imaging Stress Responses in Plants
- Integrated Approaches to Sustain and Improve Plant Production under Drought Stress
- Intracellular Compartmentation: Biogenesis and Function
2006
- Major Themes in Flowering Research
- Oxygen Metabolism, ROS and Redox Signalling in Plants
- Plant Proteomics
- Plants and Salinity
- Phenotypic Plasticity and the Changing Environment
2005
2004
- Water-Saving Agriculture
- Sulphur Metabolism in Plants - Integrating Complexity
- Novel Approaches to Understanding Photosynthetic Performance
- Crosstalk in Plant Signal Transduction
2003
2002
- Fruit Development and Ripening
- Antioxidants and Reactive Oxygen Species in Plants
- Inorganic Nitrogen Assimilation
2001
- Physiology and Ecology of Plants Under Stress
- Compartmentation of Plant Metabolism
- Roots: From Gene to Ecosystem
