植物科學將發布最低的時候,研究手稿以及委托推薦的評論和評論裁判在各領域的廣泛領域的重點實驗植物生物學基因組學、蛋白質組學、生物化學(包括酶學)、生理學、細胞生物學、開發、遺傳學、功能植物育種、系統生物學和植物與環境之間的交互。充分審議的稿件應簡明扼要，基本上作為最后報告。出版的主要標準是，手稿必須包含原創的和重要的見解，導致更好地理解基本植物生物學。以植物細胞培養為中心的論文應該引起廣泛的讀者的興趣，所采用的方法比現有的技術和方法有很大的改進。方法論文只有在描述的技術是新穎的或對已建立的協議提供了重大進展時才受歡迎。植物科學不是一種用于初步觀察的出版工具，也不是一種只對在其他植物系統中完成的結果進行確認的研究，或只針對特定讀者的研究。提交的描述初步性質研究的手稿，僅在范圍上是確定的，或對期刊的一般讀者興趣有限，將在沒有正式審查的情況下退回。作為一般政策,《華爾街日報》將不再考慮手稿描述了克隆,測序的基因序列和表達模式識別和特征在其他植物物種,表達的蛋白質沒有適當的重組產品的特征和形式,本土的隔離、酶的純化和表征廣泛分析了其他的植物,分子標記和植物遺傳多樣性的描述，沒有任何相關的生物學信息，細胞培養和/或已經在文獻中建立的植物物種(或密切相關的物種)的轉化和基本轉錄組學方法，沒有進一步相關的功能描述感興趣的基因。

Plant Science will publish in the minimum of time, research manuscripts as well as commissioned reviews and commentaries recommended by its referees in all areas of experimental plant biology with emphasis in the broad areas of genomics, proteomics, biochemistry (including enzymology), physiology, cell biology, development, genetics, functional plant breeding, systems biology and the interaction of plants with the environment.Manuscripts for full consideration should be written concisely and essentially as a final report. The main criterion for publication is that the manuscript must contain original and significant insights that lead to a better understanding of fundamental plant biology. Papers centering on plant cell culture should be of interest to a wide audience and methods employed result in a substantial improvement over existing established techniques and approaches. Methods papers are welcome only when the technique(s) described is novel or provides a major advancement of established protocols.Plant Science is not a publication vehicle for preliminary observations, for studies that are merely confirmatory of results accomplished in other plant systems, or that are addressed only to a specialized readership. Submitted manuscripts describing studies of preliminary nature, that are merely confirmatory in scope or of limited scope and interest to the general readership of the journal will be returned without formal review. As a general policy, the journal will no longer consider manuscripts just describing the cloning, sequencing and expression patterns of gene sequences that have been identified and characterized in other plant species, expression of a protein without proper characterization of the recombinant product and native form, the isolation, purification and characterization of enzymes extensively analyzed in other plants, description of molecular markers and plant genetic diversity without any relevant biological information, cell culture and/or transformation of plant species (or closely related species) already established in the literature and basic transcriptomic approaches with no further relevant functional characterization of genes of interest.