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Tropical Plant Biol. (2008) 1:1–2 DOI 10.1007/s12042-008-9010-5 Springer Science + Business Media, LLC 2008 Over the past decade, growth in the fundamental knowl- important during evolution for adaptation to a particular edge about plant biology and in the number of scientific environment. Knowing more about these unique qualities journals publishing on the topic has been explosive. of individual species holds great promise for improving According to a report from a 2003 U.S. Department of agricultural productivity and sustainability. Nowhere is the Energy workshop on biosciences, “there has been more need greater for wider reporting of the fundamental biology learned this past decade about how plants work than in all than in the broad arena of tropical plants. of preceding history.” In the four years since that was Tropical plants are not only those widely recognized written, the growth phenomenon has increased exponen- crops that are limited to production in the tropics, such as tially. We were unable to find specific references to the bananas, cacao, coconuts, coffee, oil palm, rubber, and magnitude of increase in the number of new journals in sugarcane but those that originated in and continue to be plant science, but our personal experience and anecdotes
Tropical Plant Biology – Springer Journals
Published: Feb 23, 2008
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