nature-plants
Nature Plants (nature-plants)
Journal positioning
Nature Plants is the Nature Portfolio journal devoted to plant science in its full breadth — from molecular and cell biology through development, physiology, genetics, and evolution to ecology and crop science — including the plant-associated microbes and the agricultural and societal contexts in which plants matter. Its defining expectation is a significant advance with broad significance: a finding that changes how a wide plant-science readership thinks about a problem, not a clean but incremental result that extends one specialist literature. A technically sound, narrowly framed specialist paper with no broad significance is a poor fit, however careful the work. 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 Nature Plants submission guidance.