Peer review builds critical appraisal skills and contributes to plant science progress.

Peer review builds critical appraisal skills and professional recognition.

Document growth conditions and photoperiods to contextualize cellular responses.

Report statistical thresholds used for gene expression or omics analysis.

Describe controls for hormone treatments and concentration gradients.

Report software versions and pipelines for bioinformatics analyses.

Include references to standards or plant nomenclature guidance.

Report statistical corrections for multiple testing in omics data.

Clarify whether findings generalize across species or cultivars.

Include details on controls for stress or nutrient treatments.

Provide context for translational relevance to crop improvement.

Report how anatomical sections were prepared and stained.

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• Professional development opportunities
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Reviewers receive acknowledgment letters and may be considered for editorial roles.

Explain how imaging parameters were calibrated for microscopy assays.

Include details on sample preparation and tissue handling to avoid bias.

Provide uncertainty measures for key developmental outcomes.

Describe batch effects and correction methods in imaging or sequencing data.

Describe quality assurance steps for phenotyping workflows.

Provide a rationale for selected markers or reporter lines.

Explain how missing data were handled in longitudinal growth studies.

Document imaging time points and resolution settings.

Describe replicate structure and experimental randomization.

Explain how data quality checks were performed.

Clear reporting of cell lineage methods improves reproducibility across plant models.

Summaries connecting cellular mechanisms to crop outcomes strengthen impact.

Clarify how developmental stages were defined and verified.

Explain how confounders were handled in observational plant studies.

Clarify temperature and light regimes for growth experiments.

Explain how sample sizes were determined for developmental assays.

Discuss limitations related to tissue specificity or developmental stage.

Report effect sizes relative to developmental benchmarks.

Explain how phenotype scoring was validated.

Clarify cell cycle staging methods and validation.