Plant Cell Development - Editors Guidelines
Guidance for editorial responsibilities and decision making.
Plant Cell Development - Editors Guidelines
Guidance for editorial responsibilities and decision making.
Editorial Responsibilities
Editors ensure scope alignment, methodological rigor, and fair decision making in plant cell research.
Editors assess methodological rigor, novelty, and developmental impact.
Explain how imaging parameters were calibrated for microscopy assays.
Clarify how developmental stages were defined and verified.
Report software versions and pipelines for bioinformatics analyses.
Describe quality assurance steps for phenotyping workflows.
Discuss limitations related to tissue specificity or developmental stage.
Include details on controls for stress or nutrient treatments.
Describe replicate structure and experimental randomization.
Decision Workflow
Screen
Confirm scope fit and methodological readiness.
Assign
Select reviewers with developmental expertise.
Decide
Weigh evidence quality and impact.
Communicate
Provide actionable, clear decisions.
Clear communication with authors improves outcomes.
Summaries connecting cellular mechanisms to crop outcomes strengthen impact.
Describe controls for hormone treatments and concentration gradients.
Describe batch effects and correction methods in imaging or sequencing data.
Explain how sample sizes were determined for developmental assays.
Clarify whether findings generalize across species or cultivars.
Document imaging time points and resolution settings.
Clarify cell cycle staging methods and validation.
Decision Criteria
- Sound experimental design and controls
- Clarity in reporting cellular methods
- Alignment with plant development scope
- Ethical compliance and data transparency
Clear reporting of cell lineage methods improves reproducibility across plant models.
Report statistical thresholds used for gene expression or omics analysis.
Provide uncertainty measures for key developmental outcomes.
Clarify temperature and light regimes for growth experiments.
Report statistical corrections for multiple testing in omics data.
Explain how missing data were handled in longitudinal growth studies.
Explain how phenotype scoring was validated.
Report how anatomical sections were prepared and stained.
Support
Editors may contact [email protected] for policy clarification or complex cases.
Document growth conditions and photoperiods to contextualize cellular responses.
Include details on sample preparation and tissue handling to avoid bias.
Explain how confounders were handled in observational plant studies.
Include references to standards or plant nomenclature guidance.
Provide a rationale for selected markers or reporter lines.
Report effect sizes relative to developmental benchmarks.
Provide context for translational relevance to crop improvement.
