Rice feeds over 2 billion people. In the face of climate change and global population increases, this essential food crop will encounter new challenges with environmental, pest and pathogen pressures. 2020 is the UN International Year of Plant Health, and this Special Issue aims to highlight research targeted at understanding biotic stress in rice in the face of a changing future with novel technologies at our fingertips.
Submitted papers can focus on the broad diversity of rice disease research with historical, new and re-emerging plant disease problems. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research, commentaries and reviews on broad plant disease biology, which includes resistance, disease and climate change, microbiome, host-microbe interactions, diagnostics and genome editing.
Interested authors may submit their manuscripts for consideration here. Submissions are requested by 31 October.
Figure 2D from “Challenges and Perspectives in Homology-Directed Gene Targeting in Monocot Plants,” by Jae-Yean Kim, et al
This special issue of Rice covers the use of genome editing technology, its use to better understand rice plants, and how applications of the technology can improve crop yield and increase quality. Masaki Endo and Seiichi Toki are Guest Editors for the series.
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Sustainable food and agriculture play an important role in the economy. To address the increasing impacts of world population and the environment, the Editor-in-Chief of Rice talks about the challenges of maintaining rice sustainability, one of the world's major staple foods.
Thematic series
Genome Editing
Rice
Edited by: Masaki Endo and Seiichi Toki
Collection published: 14 May 2020
Thematic series
Iconic Rice Varieties
Rice
Edited by: Prof David Mackill
Collection published: 9 April 2018
Thematic series
Root related traits
Rice
Edited by: Prof Antonio Costa de Oliveira, Dr. Scott Jackson
Collection published: 28 November 2014
Thematic series
Selected articles from the 10th International Symposium of Rice Functional Genomics
Rice
Edited by: Dr Baltazar Antonio, Prof Apichart Vanavichit
Collection published: 18 July 2013
Thematic series
Abiotic stress in rice
Rice
Collection published: 12 March 2012
Professor Takuji Sasaki, NODAI Research Institute, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Japan
Review
A N M Rubaiyath Bin Rahman and Jianhua Zhang
Rice 2018 11:10
Speed
50 days to first decision for reviewed manuscripts only
38 days to first decision for all manuscripts
128 days from submission to acceptance
16 days from acceptance to publication
Citation Impact
3.513 - 2-year Impact Factor
4.625 - 5-year Impact Factor
1.391 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
1.499 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
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