Aims and Scope

Seed Biology publishes original research articles reporting the latest discoveries, letters, reviews, and perspectives related to fundamental seed biology of model, agronomic, horticultural and forestry plants and aims to become a highly trusted source of original information on the biology of seeds.

The subject areas include, but are not limited to, the following:

  Flowering time control and floral organ development;

  Sporogenesis and gametogenesis;

  Pollination and fertilization;

  Embryogenesis and endosperm development;

 Apomixis;

  Seed yield and quality;

  Seed vigour and longevity;

  Seed dormancy and germination;

  Fruit development;

  Agronomic appraisal of seed traits;

  In vitro regeneration and artificial seed;

  Development of novel 'super germplasm' using all research approaches, including omics, genetics, biotechnology and genome editing, synthetic biology, cellular and molecular biology, physiology, and environmental biology;

  Seed interactions with other microbes;

  Seed technologies.

All genetic resources published in Seed Biology must be made accessible to all future users and deposited in a publicly available repository when possible.