Theoretical and Experimental Plant Physiology

Theoretical and Experimental Plant Physiology is a quarterly plant physiology journal published by Springer in Cham, Switzerland, on behalf of the Brazilian Society of Plant Physiology. Launched in 2013, it covers the discipline from primary and secondary metabolism and photobiology to crop, stress and post-harvest physiology. The 2025 Journal Citation Reports place it in the second quartile of PLANT SCIENCES with a Journal Impact Factor of 2.4.《理论与实验植物生理学》由 Springer 在瑞士出版，代表巴西植物生理学会发行，为一年四期的植物生理学刊物。该刊 2013 年创刊，内容从初生代谢与次生代谢、光生物学，一直延伸到作物生理与逆境生理。2025 年 Journal Citation Reports 把它列在植物科学类目第二四分位，期刊影响因子为 2.4。

Scope

• Plant physiology taken as an experimental science is the remit, and the journal puts the bar in one sentence: studies that lack a clear physiological hypothesis are not published.收稿范围是作为实验科学的植物生理学，刊物把门槛写成一句话，缺乏清晰生理学假设的研究不予发表。

• Biochemical processes head the list of sections, covering primary and secondary metabolism and the biochemistry that ties carbon fixation to the build-up of storage and defence compounds.生物化学过程列在分区之首，涵盖初生代谢与次生代谢，以及把碳固定与贮藏物质、防御物质合成连接起来的生物化学。

• Photobiology and photosynthesis processes take in light capture and electron transport, then carbon fixation and chlorophyll fluorescence, and finally photoinhibition with the induction that follows a shade-to-sun transition.光生物学与光合作用涵盖光捕获与电子传递，也涵盖碳固定与叶绿素荧光，还包括光抑制和遮阴转晴后的光合诱导。

• Cell biology enters through membrane transport and organelle function, and through the cellular water relations that set turgor and drive expansion.细胞生物学经膜运输与细胞器功能进入范围，也经决定膨压并推动细胞扩张的细胞水分关系进入。

• Genes and development sit beside plant molecular biology, taking in the regulation of gene expression, stable transformation and the genetic dissection of flowering and root architecture.基因与发育同植物分子生物学并列，涉及基因表达调控与稳定转化，也涉及开花和根系构型的遗传解析。

• Signalling and response covers hormone action and reactive oxygen species, calcium signatures, and the chains that turn an environmental cue into a changed growth habit.信号与响应涵盖激素作用与活性氧，也涵盖钙信号和把环境线索转成生长习性改变的传导链。

• Plant nutrition holds a section of its own, reaching from nitrogen assimilation and phosphate acquisition to micronutrient trafficking, and to the ion toxicity that follows excess aluminium or manganese.植物营养单列一节，内容从氮同化与磷获取延伸到微量元素转运，还包括铝或锰过量引起的离子毒害。

• Growth and differentiation gathers seed physiology and hormonal physiology together with photomorphogenesis, including germination and dormancy, and the light-controlled form of a seedling.生长与分化汇集种子生理与激素生理，也汇集光形态建成，包含萌发与休眠，还包含光调控的幼苗形态。

• Post-harvest physiology carries work on ripening and senescence, on chilling injury and storage disorders, all of which decide how long a harvested fruit or tuber holds its quality.采后生理承接成熟与衰老方面的研究，也承接冷害与贮藏病害，这些过程决定采收后的果实或块茎能保持多久的品质。

• Ecophysiology and crop physiology stand next to stress physiology, with drought and salinity, heat and flooding, and heavy metals treated as measured variables at leaf, whole-plant and canopy scale.生态生理与作物生理紧邻逆境生理，干旱与盐渍、高温与涝渍以及重金属都作为可测量的变量，先在叶片与单株尺度考察，再上推到冠层。

• Applied plant ecology is admitted when a physiological measurement carries the argument, as in work on the Caatinga dry forest and its tolerance of a shifting climate.应用植物生态学在有生理测量支撑论点时才被接受，卡廷加干旱林及其对气候变化的耐受能力便是一例。^[1]

• Plant-microbe and plant-insect interactions cover nodulation and mycorrhizal nutrient exchange, induced defence, and the volatile signals that summon predators of a herbivore.植物与微生物、植物与昆虫的互作涵盖结瘤与菌根养分交换，也涵盖诱导防御和招引天敌的挥发信号。

• Instrumentation in plant physiology forms a standing section, open to sap flow probes and porometers, to imaging platforms, and to any sensor that makes a physiological variable measurable in the field.植物生理仪器单设一节，液流探针与气孔计、成像平台，以及任何让生理变量可在田间测得的传感器都在其中。

• Education in plant physiology is a separate section, an unusual commitment for a research journal and one that answers to the society's teaching membership.植物生理教育另设一节，这在研究型刊物中并不常见，与学会的教学群体相对应。

• Taxonomy and anatomy, systematics and ecology stay outside the remit unless a physiological approach runs through them, and a report that only applies an established method is not considered for publication, nor are dose-response data offered without physiological discussion.分类学与解剖学、系统学以及生态学不在范围之内，除非有生理学路径贯穿其中，只套用既有方法的报告不予考虑，没有生理学讨论的剂量反应数据同样如此。

History

• Volume 25 opened in 2013, so the numbering continues the sequence of the society's earlier plant physiology journal instead of restarting at volume one.第 25 卷于 2013 年面世，卷号接续巴西植物生理学会先前那份刊物的序列，没有从第 1 卷重新起算。^[2]

• The National Library of Medicine records that earlier title, the Brazilian Journal of Plant Physiology, as the related preceding title, and its run ends at volume 24.美国国家医学图书馆把先前那份「Brazilian Journal of Plant Physiology」记为相关前题名，该刊止于第 24 卷。

• Articles from the 2013 volume were deposited on SciELO with digital object identifiers beginning 10.1590, and the volume ran to four issues.2013 年那一卷的文章以 10.1590 开头的数字对象标识符在 SciELO 平台上登记，全年出满四期。

• Springer's own archive starts at volume 26 in 2014, the year the imprint settled in Cham and the identifiers moved to the 10.1007 prefix.Springer 的卷库自 2014 年第 26 卷开始，出版地也在这一年落到瑞士沙姆，标识符改用 10.1007 前缀。

• That first Springer volume led with a focus issue on plant physiology in a climate changing world, opened by a plea for drought biology as a route to resource use efficiency.Springer 接手后的第一卷以「气候变化世界中的植物生理」专题开篇，首篇文章主张借干旱生物学提升资源利用效率。^[3]

• The title belongs to the Brazilian Society of Plant Physiology, and the copyright line on every article names the society rather than the publisher.该刊归巴西植物生理学会所有，每篇文章的版权行署学会之名，未署出版方。

• Four issues a year has been the rhythm since the launch, and volumes 26 and 27 each wrapped two numbers into a single combined issue.一年四期自创刊起就是定例，第 26 卷与第 27 卷各把两期并成一册合刊。

• Volume 38 covers 2026, which makes fourteen volumes under the present title.第 38 卷对应 2026 年，按此计算该刊名下一共出了十四卷。

• Open access runs through Springer's Open Choice, and the hybrid model keeps the subscription route open for authors without a funder.开放获取经 Springer 的 Open Choice 通道办理，混合模式同时为没有资助方的作者保留订阅路径。

• The 2025 Journal Citation Reports give a Journal Impact Factor of 2.4 and a five-year figure of 2.4, a Journal Citation Indicator of 0.58, and 901 citations accumulated across the back catalogue.2025 年 Journal Citation Reports 记录的期刊影响因子为 2.4，五年影响因子同为 2.4，期刊引用指标为 0.58，历年文章累计被引 901 次。

• About forty research items appear each year, gold open access reaches 16.8 percent of them, and full-text downloads stood at 76.8 thousand in 2025.每年刊出的研究文字约 40 篇，其中金色开放获取占 16.8%，2025 年全文下载量为 7.68 万次。

• PubMed records selected citations only while Science Citation Index Expanded indexes the full run, and the abstracting list adds BIOSIS and CAB Abstracts alongside Chemical Abstracts Service.PubMed 只记录部分被引条目，Science Citation Index Expanded 覆盖全部卷期，文摘服务另含 BIOSIS 与 CAB Abstracts，以及 Chemical Abstracts Service。

• Two topical collections stand on the journal's front page, one on metabolomics and the regulation and integration of plant metabolism, the other on advances in philosophical and theoretical plant biology, a turn toward the conceptual side of the discipline.刊物首页挂着两个专题，一辑谈代谢组学与植物代谢的调控和整合，另一辑谈哲学与理论植物生物学的进展，方向偏向学科的概念一侧。

Editors

• Gustavo Habermann, at São Paulo State University in São Paulo, holds the post of Editor-in-Chief.（Gustavo Habermann）任职于圣保罗州立大学，现任该刊主编。

• His own record in the journal includes a 2013 article, written with Ricardo Bressan-Smith, that asked whether there will be enough food, and what the society and the Global Plant Council have to do with the answer.他在该刊刊发的文字中有一篇写于 2013 年，与（Ricardo Bressan-Smith）合作，追问未来是否有足够的食物，以及学会与全球植物理事会与此有何干系。

• Ricardo Bressan-Smith wrote the introduction that announced the new journal in 2013, and he now serves among the associate editors at the State University of Norte Fluminense.（Ricardo Bressan-Smith）撰写了 2013 年宣告新刊诞生的导言，如今在北弗鲁米嫩塞州立大学任职，位列副编辑之中。

• Nineteen associate editors work under the editor-in-chief, and eleven of them hold posts in Brazilian institutions.主编之下有 19 位副编辑，其中 11 位在巴西的机构任职。

• The other eight sit in Argentina and Spain, in the United States with two posts, and one each in Mexico and Portugal, Australia and Venezuela.其余八位分布在阿根廷与西班牙，美国占两席，墨西哥与葡萄牙各一位，澳大利亚与委内瑞拉也各有一位。

• Jaume Flexas of the University of the Balearic Islands and Peter R. Ryan of CSIRO in Canberra bring leaf gas exchange and root-soil nutrient work into the board's range.巴利阿里群岛大学的（Jaume Flexas）与堪培拉澳大利亚联邦科学与工业研究组织的（Peter R. Ryan），把叶片气体交换与根土养分研究带入编委的覆盖范围。

• Miquel Gonzalez-Meler at the University of Illinois Chicago and Wilmer Tezara at the Central University of Venezuela widen the board to North America and to South America beyond Brazil, while Carla Pinheiro at NOVA University Lisbon adds Portugal.伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校的（Miquel Gonzalez-Meler）与委内瑞拉中央大学的（Wilmer Tezara）把编委伸向北美和巴西以外的南美，里斯本新大学的（Carla Pinheiro）补上葡萄牙一侧。

• Handling is divided between the editor-in-chief and the associate editors, and any editor with a competing interest steps away from the manuscript.审稿分工落在主编与副编辑之间，凡存在利益冲突的编辑，一律回避相应稿件。

• The aims and the guidelines agree on the first screen, since a paper that restates known aspects without reaching the mechanisms involved is returned as a rule without review.宗旨与作者指南在第一道筛子上口径一致，重复已知结论而未能触及所涉机制的论文，按规定通常不经评审退回。

• The median wait from submission to a first decision was 22 days in 2025.2025 年从投稿到首次决定的中位等待时间为 22 天。

• Manuscripts go in through Editorial Manager at editorialmanager.com/txpp, and the journal's article types run from Original Articles of up to 4000 words and Short Communications of up to 2500 to reviews, opinion articles and letters to the editor.稿件经 Editorial Manager 提交，入口是 editorialmanager.com/txpp，文章类型从 4000 词以内的原创论文与 2500 词以内的短讯，一直排到综述、观点文章与致编辑信。

• Authors may suggest suitable reviewers and may ask for named individuals to be excluded, provided the suggestion is independent of their own work.作者可以推荐合适的审稿人，也可以要求排除某些人，前提是提名独立于自己的工作。