Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution

Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution is a Springer journal for plant genetic resources, founded in 1992 and now printed eight times a year. Its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 1.9, and the five-year figure stands at 2.0.《遗传资源与作物演化》（Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution）由 Springer 出版，专收植物遗传资源方面的研究，1992 年创刊，如今一年出八期。2025 年影响因子为 1.9，五年影响因子为 2.0。

The title presents itself as the international continuation of Die Kulturpflanze, the German periodical begun in 1953, and it inherited the older volume count, so the 2026 volume is numbered 73.刊物自称是德文期刊《Die Kulturpflanze》的国际延续，后者 1953 年创刊，卷号也随之承接下来，2026 年出到第 73 卷。

Scope

• The aims page sets out the whole field of plant genetic resources and then names the approaches it will take, taxonomic, morphological, physiological, biochemical, genetic, cytological or ethnobotanical.宗旨页先划出植物遗传资源的整个领域，再点名愿意接受的路径，从分类学与形态学一路排到生理、生化、遗传、细胞与民族植物学层面的工作。
• Gene bank management has a clause of its own, with collecting, maintenance, evaluation, storage and documentation treated as research subjects rather than as a service annex to somebody else's paper.种质库管理单列一条，收集、维护、评价、贮藏与记录都算合格选题，不被当作别人论文末尾的技术附注。
• Crop evolution and domestication sit at the centre of the stated interests, together with crop-weed relationships and the wild species that supply agrobiodiversity to farming systems.作物演化与驯化被放在兴趣范围的中心，与它并列的是作物同杂草的关系，以及为农业系统提供生物多样性的近缘野生种。
• The history of cultivated plants is written into the scope as well, palaeoethnobotany included, which is why charred seed assemblages from excavations appear in the same volumes as multi-site yield trials.栽培植物的历史也写进了范围，古民族植物学同样在内，考古遗址出土的炭化种子组合因此会和多年多点产量试验排在同一卷里。
• Landraces and on-farm conservation draw steady submissions, and a paper on a farmer-maintained population is expected to say who plants it, where the field lies, and what selection the population has survived.地方品种与农家保护一直有人投稿，写农家自留群体的论文要交代种植者是谁，田块在哪里，以及这一群体长期承受了什么选择压力。
• Molecular work is routine here, and microsatellites or ISSRs turn up in titles beside IRAPs and single nucleotide polymorphisms, usually with population structure and allele frequencies attached.分子层面的工作在这里属于常规，微卫星或 ISSR 常与 IRAP 和单核苷酸多态性一起出现在标题里，后面多半跟着群体结构与等位基因频率。
• Evaluation results for gene bank material are explicitly invited, so descriptor lists, multi-environment trials of the same accessions and the detection of duplicate holdings all have a home in the journal.对种质库材料的评价结果被明确征稿，性状描述表、同一份材料的多年多点试验以及重复份的鉴别，都有地方可投。
• Seed physiology belongs to conservation rather than to agronomy, and germination testing, viability monitoring and cryopreservation protocols are published alongside long records of how stored accessions lose vigour.种子生理被归入保存工作而非农艺学，发芽检验、活力监测与超低温保存流程都能发表，贮藏份活力逐年下降的长期记录同样在内。
• New crop taxa are described here and not only in taxonomic outlets, and short communications exist for a single new subspecies, a nomenclatural correction or a renamed cultivar group.新的作物分类群常常直接在这里描述，并不只投给分类学刊物，短通讯就是为一则新亚种或一条命名修订留的位置。
• Reports of collecting missions form a recognised genre of their own, normally giving the route, a set of passport data and a first judgement on what the samples are likely to contain.采集考察报告是受承认的一类文章，通常交代路线，附一套护照数据，再给出对样品内涵的初步判断。
• Ethnobotanical survey is frequent enough to count as a standing category, and local knowledge of food and medicinal plants is usually compared across regions rather than described for one village.民族植物学调查出现得频繁，足以算作常设栏目，食用与药用植物的地方知识多拿几个区域作比较，很少只写一个村子的描述。
• Pre-breeding and germplasm enhancement are covered as the applied end of the same work, with wild introgression, wide crosses and the transfer of a single resistance gene reported in field terms.前育种与种质改良被当作同一类工作的应用端，野生种渗入、远缘杂交与单个抗性基因的转移，都按田间结果来报。
• Collection gaps and climate are a recurring recent theme, and models of where a crop wild relative will still be found by 2050 are printed beside the field work that tests them.采集空白与气候是近年反复出现的题目，到 2050 年近缘野生种还可能在哪里找到的模拟，会和检验这些模拟的实地采集一起刊出。
• Book reviews and review articles belong to the mix, and every contribution, whatever its length, is written in English and sent out for peer review before it appears.书评与综述也在其中，稿件不论长短，一律用英文撰写，刊出之前都要送同行评议。

History

• The first volume of Die Kulturpflanze carries a December 1953 date, and the whole run, volumes 1 to 38, is now digitised in the same archive as the current issues.《Die Kulturpflanze》第 1 卷的标期是 1953 年 12 月，全帙第 1 至 38 卷如今与现刊同在一个平台存档，可以逐卷调阅。
• That periodical came from the crop plant institute at Gatersleben, today the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, or IPK, a name that still appears on the masthead.那份德文刊出自加特斯莱本的作物研究所，该机构今名莱布尼茨植物遗传与作物植物研究所，简称 IPK，这个名字至今仍出现在编委名单上。
• Volume 38 closed in December 1990, the year the East German academy system was wound up, and the German title stopped there instead of thinning out over several years.第 38 卷在 1990 年 12 月收尾，那一年东德科学院体系正在解散，德文刊名就此停住，没有拖几年慢慢淡出。
• The relaunch came in 1992 under Kluwer Academic Publishers of Dordrecht, with an English title and a declared intention to serve the field internationally rather than one country.1992 年由多德雷赫特的 Kluwer Academic Publishers 接手复刊，改用英文刊名，并把服务对象定为整个领域而非一个国家。
• Numbering was not restarted, so volume 39 belongs to 1992 and volume 73 to 2026, which lets a reader follow one unbroken series back to the first German issue.卷号没有重新起算，第 39 卷对应 1992 年，第 73 卷对应 2026 年，读者顺着一条不断的卷序可以一直追到德文刊的第 1 卷。
• The early Kluwer years were thin, three issues in 1992 and three in each of 1993 and 1994, and their cover dates had not yet settled, the first volume dating two of its numbers to January and the third to September.Kluwer 初期的篇幅很薄，1992 年出三期，1993 与 1994 年各三期，封面标期尚未定形，第 39 卷有两期都标 1 月，第三期标 9 月。
• A fourth issue was added in 1995, and from 1996 the journal settled at six a year, dated in alternate months from February through December and held at that rate for seven volumes.1995 年加到四期，1996 年起固定为一年六期，标期落在偶数月，从 2 月起隔月一期直到 12 月，这个形制延续了七卷。
• Volume 50 in 2003 lifted the journal to eight issues a year, a density it has kept since, with the added pair falling in March and September in the early volumes.2003 年的第 50 卷把年出期数提到八期，此后一直维持，新增的两期在最初几卷里落在 3 月与 9 月。
• From 2010 the eight issues settled into a January to December rhythm, dated January to April and then June, August, October and December, so no volume carries a May number and volume 73 stands at seven dated issues by October 2026.2010 年起八期固定按 1 月到 12 月排布，标期落在 1 至 4 月，以及 6 月、8 月、10 月与 12 月，各卷都没有 5 月号，第 73 卷到 2026 年 10 月为止标了七期。
• Kluwer was absorbed by Springer in 2004, and from 2005 the volumes carry the Springer imprint, with Amsterdam replacing Dordrecht in the bibliographic record of the title.Kluwer 于 2004 年并入 Springer，2005 年起的各卷改署 Springer，著录里的出版地也从多德雷赫特换成阿姆斯特丹。
• Peter Hanelt of Gatersleben was the first editor-in-chief of the English title and is still named as co-founder on the board page, with a note that he died in 2019.加特斯莱本的 Peter Hanelt 是英文刊的首任主编，编委页至今把他列为共同创办人，并注明他已于 2019 年去世。
• The publishing model is hybrid, and the platform now lists 366 open access articles, which the citation reports count as 13.29 per cent of output going gold.发行模式为混合制，平台现列 366 篇开放获取论文，引证报告把走金色通道的比例记为 13.29%。
• Page ranges have given way to article numbers, and the October 2026 issue of volume 73 runs to Article 328, which shortens the wait between acceptance and a citable record.页码已让位给文章编号，2026 年 10 月那一期的编号排到第 328 号，录用与可引用记录之间的等待随之缩短。
• A supplement issue appeared with volume 72 in December 2025, the only one in the recent run, and it sits beside the eight regular numbers of that year.2025 年 12 月的第 72 卷附了一册增刊，是近年唯一的一次，与当年八期正刊并列。
• The 2025 metrics describe a large and slowly cited journal, with 344 citable items, 6190 citations to the run, a cited half-life of 6.5 years and a Journal Citation Indicator of 0.48.2025 年的数字显示这是一本发稿量大、被引偏慢的刊物，可引用论文 344 篇，全刊被引 6190 次，引用半衰期 6.5 年，期刊引证指标 0.48。

Editors

• Rodomiro Ortiz, at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala, is Editor-in-Chief and the only person on the masthead carrying that title.主编为 Rodomiro Ortiz，任职于乌普萨拉的瑞典农业科学大学（Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences），编委名单上只有他一人挂主编头衔。
• Beneath him sit 34 board members drawn from 18 countries, and no associate editors or handling editors are listed between an author and the decision.他之下是来自 18 个国家的 34 位编委，名单里没有副编辑，作者与决定之间也没有一层处理编辑。
• India supplies seven of the 34 seats, China five and Türkiye four, while the rest are spread from Mexico and Brazil to Finland, Kosovo and Australia.34 个席位里印度占 7 个，中国 5 个，土耳其 4 个，其余从墨西哥与巴西一直散到芬兰、科索沃与澳大利亚。
• Gene bank staff sit on the board beside university academics, among them Axel Diederichsen of Plant Gene Resources of Canada and two scientists from India's National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources.编委里有种质库的人，不全是高校教师，例如加拿大植物遗传资源中心的 Axel Diederichsen，以及印度国家植物遗传资源局的两名研究人员。
• Jaime Prohens of the Universitat Politècnica de València brings aubergine and Solanum breeding, and Hakan Özkan of Çukurova University brings wheat landraces collected across the Fertile Crescent.巴伦西亚理工大学的 Jaime Prohens 带来茄子与茄属育种的经验，丘库罗瓦大学的 Hakan Özkan 带来在新月沃地采集的小麦地方品种。
• Ethnobotany holds three seats, Andrea Pieroni of the University of Gastronomic Sciences, Alejandro Casas of UNAM and Chunlin Long of Minzu University in Beijing.民族植物学占了三个席位，分别是美食科学大学的 Andrea Pieroni，墨西哥国立自治大学的 Alejandro Casas，以及北京中央民族大学的 Chunlin Long。
• Cereal cytogenetics is represented by Ekaterina Badaeva of the Russian Academy of Sciences, whose work on wheat and barley chromosomes appears in the journal often enough to be recognisable.谷物细胞遗传学由俄罗斯科学院的 Ekaterina Badaeva 代表，她研究小麦与大麦的染色体，成果在刊物上出现得很勤，读者一看便知。
• The list reads as a working roster rather than an honorific one, and the subjects its members keep returning to, accession evaluation, taxonomy and seed storage, match what the issues actually print.这份名单更像干活的班子而非荣誉榜，成员反复涉及的题目，比如种质评价、分类学与种子贮藏，与每期刊出的内容对得上。
• Review is conventional peer review run through the Springer Nature portal, with every manuscript in English and a median of two days from submission to first decision.评审走 Springer Nature 平台的常规同行评议，稿件一律用英文，从投稿到首次决定的中位时间为两天。
• Guest-edited Collections are actively commissioned, and a standing call invites proposals for topical sets instead of waiting for them to arrive unsolicited.客座编辑的专题合集是主动组稿的，刊物长期挂着征询启事，欢迎提交选题方案，不坐等来稿。
• Students and researchers within a year of the PhD receive a Springer ebook voucher worth up to 250 euros, and their paper stays free to read for eight weeks after online publication.在读学生与博士毕业一年内的研究者可获一张最高 250 欧元的 Springer 电子书券，其论文在线上首发后免费开放八周。
• The journal also runs In Review with Research Square, which posts a manuscript as a preprint while the same file is being assessed here.刊物还与 Research Square 合办 In Review，稿件在本刊评审期间即以预印本形式公开。
• Usage is high for a specialist title at 637.8 thousand downloads in 2025, and Springer Nature placed a member of this editorial team among its 2026 Editors of Distinction.对一本专业刊来说使用量不低，2025 年全文下载 63.78 万次，Springer Nature 还把编辑团队中的一位成员列入 2026 年度杰出编辑。