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the-plant-journal
GitHub用于评估稿件是否符合The Plant Journal的收录标准，侧重分子机制、基因到功能的严谨证据及数据规范。辅助作者进行期刊选择、重构研究框架或应对拒稿风险。
Trigger Scenarios
作者指定投稿The Plant Journal并需评估匹配度
需将表型观察提升为分子机制研究
在The Plant Journal与新植物学家之间做决策
需要了解拒稿启发式规则
Install
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill the-plant-journal -g -y
SKILL.md
Frontmatter
{
"name": "the-plant-journal",
"description": "Use when targeting The Plant Journal or deciding whether a plant-science manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the mechanistic gene-to-function and molecular-rigor bar, evidence and data-deposition expectations, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics."
}
The Plant Journal (the-plant-journal)
Journal positioning
The Plant Journal, published for the Society for Experimental Biology by Wiley, is a plant-science journal focused on the molecular, cellular, biochemical, and genetic mechanisms that govern plant biology — how genes, proteins, metabolites, and regulatory networks produce plant function. Its defining expectation is rigorous mechanistic evidence: a gene-to-function study that establishes how something works, supported by genetics, biochemistry, and cell biology, not a phenotype with a plausible candidate. A descriptive or whole-organism/ecological observation with no resolved molecular mechanism fits an ecology/physiology journal better. This skill is a fit / venue-selection / re-framing tool. It does not replace the journal's current author guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live The Plant Journal author guidance.
When to trigger
- The author names The Plant Journal and wants a fit/framing check for a mechanistic molecular-plant paper.
- A phenotype or candidate-gene observation must be elevated into a resolved gene-to-function mechanism with the right molecular evidence.
- The author is deciding between The Plant Journal and
new-phytologistand needs the molecular-mechanism versus ecology/physiology-breadth distinction made explicit. - The author needs The Plant Journal's desk-reject heuristics and a credible alternative route.
Scope & topic fit
- Gene function and regulation: transcriptional, post-transcriptional, and epigenetic control established by loss/gain-of-function genetics.
- Protein biochemistry, enzymology, and metabolic and signaling pathways with mechanistic resolution.
- Cell biology: organelle function, trafficking, cytoskeleton, and subcellular dynamics in plants.
- Plant development and physiology where the contribution is the underlying molecular/genetic mechanism.
- Plant–microbe and stress responses analyzed at the molecular and biochemical level.
- Genomics, gene-editing, and tool/resource papers that enable mechanistic plant biology.
Method & evidence bar
- The central claim must be a resolved molecular mechanism: gene-to-function supported by complementary genetics (mutants/complementation/allelic series), biochemistry, and localization, not a single line of correlative evidence.
- Knockouts/knockdowns need complementation and, where feasible, independent alleles; off-target and dosage effects should be addressed.
- Protein and metabolite claims need direct biochemical assays with controls, quantification, and replication; interaction claims need orthogonal validation.
- '-omics' and high-throughput datasets must be followed by functional validation of key hits; candidate lists alone are insufficient.
- Sequence, structure, and large datasets must be deposited per community standards with accession numbers; statistics, N, and replication must be reported.
Structure & house style
- The Plant Journal publishes research articles, resource/technical articles, and reviews; re-check current article types and length on the live guide.
- The introduction must define the molecular question and the mechanistic gap, then build the gene-to-function logic through the figures.
- Main figures should carry the mechanistic chain (genetics → biochemistry → cell biology); extended controls and replicates go to supporting information.
- Methods and data-availability statements must allow reproduction; accession numbers and germplasm sources must be complete.
Official-submission checklist
- Before giving submission-ready advice, read
../../resources/source-basis.mdand../../resources/official-source-map.md; start from the official source anchors, then cite the current The Plant Journal page you checked. - Search the live site for "The Plant Journal author guidelines" and follow the current SEB/Wiley version.
- Re-check article types, word/figure expectations, and abstract format.
- Confirm sequence/structure/'-omics' deposition requirements, accession-number reporting, and germplasm/material availability.
- Re-check competing-interests, funding, author-contribution, and AI-use disclosure, and open-access terms.
- If the live official instructions conflict with this skill, the official instructions win.
Pre-submission self-check
- The contribution is a resolved gene-to-function mechanism, not a phenotype with a candidate.
- Knockouts/knockdowns are complemented and corroborated by independent alleles where feasible.
- Biochemical/interaction claims have direct assays, controls, and orthogonal validation.
- '-omics' hits are functionally validated, not presented as a candidate list.
- Sequences/structures/datasets are deposited with accessions; N and replication are reported.
- Article type and data/material-availability statements are prepared.
Common desk-reject triggers
- A phenotype with a plausible candidate gene but no mechanistic resolution.
- A knockdown phenotype with no complementation and no independent allele.
- Interaction or localization claims from a single assay without orthogonal confirmation.
- '-omics' catalogues with no functional follow-up of key candidates.
- A whole-organism or ecological observation with no molecular mechanism — scope mismatch.
Re-routing decision
- Ecology, physiology, whole-plant/ecosystem-scale integration →
new-phytologist. - Deepest mechanistic cell biology with broad cell-biology significance →
the-plant-cell. - Broad headline plant-science significance for a Nature audience →
nature-plants. - Field-scale agronomy and yield →
field-crops-research. - Cross-discipline methodological advance with wide reach →
nature-communicationsorscience-advances.
Output format
[Fit] High / Medium / Low (one-line reason)
[Target] The Plant Journal
[Topic tags] <2–3 closest molecular/genetic plant topics>
[Mechanism] <the resolved gene-to-function chain and its evidence>
[Method/evidence] <do genetics + biochemistry + validation clear The Plant Journal's bar?>
[Top risk] <the single most likely reason for rejection>
[Official items to re-check] <article type / accession deposition / material availability / disclosures>
[Re-route suggestion] <if not a fit, a better-matched venue>
Version History
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