Special Issues

Each year Plant & Cell Physiology publishes several Special Issues covering a range of timely research topics, which serve as an introduction to the research field and provide updates on recent developments aimed at both the specialist audience and wider plant science community. Special Issues usually feature a selection of review papers and research articles, and occasionally summary reports of conferences and symposia.

Check below for details of upcoming special issues and calls for papers; note that authors interested in submitting manuscripts to special issues should contact the organising editors or editorial office in the first instance.

Upcoming Special Issues:

• Tetrapyrrole Photoreceptors in Photosynthetic Organisms (2024) - submissions closed

• Ecology and Evolution: genetic and molecular dynamics of plants in nature (2024) – submissions closed

• Photosynthesis – the basics, mechanisms, and applications (2025) – receiving submissions

• The Biology of Parasitic Plants – Mechanisms, Diversity, and Evolution (2025) – receiving submissions

Published Special Issues:

2024

Multilayered Regulation of Plastids and Mitochondria (April) 
Plant and Algal Lipids (June) 
Brassinosteroids – From Biosynthesis and Signalling to Crop Improvement (October)

2023

Revisiting Plant Metabolite Functions (December)
Human-Machine Collaboration in Plant Biology (November)
Strigolactones (September)
Plant Stem Cells (March)

2022

• Plant Growth Regulators (December)
• Classical and De Novo Plant Domestication (November)
• Plant Biotic Interactions (October)

• The Biomechanics of Plant Cell Walls (Dec)
• Advances in Plant Imaging Technologies (August)
• Photosynthesis and Chloroplast Regulation (July) 
• Mineral Element Transport Systems (April)

2020

• Gibberellin Metabolism and Signalling (November)
• Life-Course Approaches for Dissecting Plant-Environment Interactions (August)

2019

• Regulatory Oxylipins (December)
• RNA-Mediated Plant Behaviour (September)
• Iron Nutrition and Interactions in Plants (July)
• Lipid Metabolism in Plants and Algae (June)

2018

• Long-Distance Signaling (September)
• Plant Chemical Biology (August)
• The Multifaceted Roles of Plant Vacuoles (July)
• From Light Signals and Signaling to Photosynthesis and Chloroplast Development (June)
• Cellular Reprogramming in Plants (April)

2017

• Plant Development and Environmental Response (August)
• Sensors and Sensing in Plants (July)
• Databases (January)

2016

• How Do Photosynthetic Organisms Manage Light Stress? (July)
• Future Research into C4 Biology (May)
• Plant Responses to the Environment (April)
• Marchantia Polymorpha (February)
• Databases (January)

2015

• New Emerging Technologies for the Study of Plant Environmental Sensing (July)
• Modeling Strategies for Plant Survival & Growth (April)
• Plant Cell Walls (February)
• Databases (January)

2014

• Photo-Oxidative Stress in Chloroplasts and Molecular Dynamics of Thylakoids (July)
• Plant Endomembranes (April)
• Plant Responses to CO ₂ (February)
• Databases (January)

2013

• Phytochemical Genomics (May)
• Meristems and Organogenesis (March)
• Databases (February)
• Blue Light Signaling Mediated by LOV Photoreceptors (January)

2012

• Plant Epigenetics (May)
• Seed Biology (January)

2011

• Flowering (September)
• Barley (May)
• Databases (February)
• Peptide Hormones (January)