New Phytologist is an international electronic journal published 24 times a year, and is owned by the New Phytologist Foundation, a non-profit-making charitable organisation dedicated to the promotion of plant science. Our regular submissions address fundamental questions across the spectrum of plant science. Short Letters, Viewpoint pieces and other submissions to the Forum section, as well as Research reviews, Priority reports, Modelling/Theory and Methods papers are also encouraged. We are committed to rapid processing – from online submission using ScholarOne Manuscripts, enabling the quickest possible peer review, to the use of e-proofs and publication 'as-ready' via Early View. There are no page or colour charges and a PDF version will be provided for each article. Authors may opt to make their article Open Access. If you have any queries do not hesitate to get in touch with Central Office. New Phytologist publishes excellent, novel, rigorous and timely research and scholarship in plant science and its applications. Falling within five sections – Physiology & Development, Environment, Interaction, Evolution and Transformative Plant Biotechnology – articles cover topics that range from intracellular processes through to global environmental change. Cross-disciplinary approaches are particularly encouraged but for guidance the journal is organized as below. We recognize that techniques from molecular and cell biology, and functional genomics through to modelling and system-based approaches will be applied across the whole spectrum of plant science: