Journal of Plant Sciences

Special Issue

Brazilian Native Plants

  • Submission Deadline: Mar. 31, 2016
  • Status: Submission Closed
  • Lead Guest Editor: Bárbara França Dantas
About This Special Issue
Brazilian Native Plants have lots of traits and characteristics unknown to international scientific community, such as pharmaceutical or cosmetic industry proprieties and tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses, as well as some regional economically important extractivistics fruits and vegetables, which should be domesticated, and wild relative to agricultural crops, which should be used in breeding programs. This special issue is to improve the dissemination of advanced research and knowledge in Brazilian Native Plants research. Original research and review papers are solicited in any aspect of Brazilian Native Plants biology.

Aims:

We aim to bring important work using any biological, ecological or agricultural approach about Brazilian Native Plants to a wide international audience and therefore only publish papers with new and innovational informations on these plants. Both research and review papers are accepted.

Scope:

1. Biodiversity
2. Forest restoration
3. Plant physiolology
4. Stress tolerance
5. Pharmaceutical and cosmetic uses
6. Genetic resouces
7. Dosmestication and agricultural production
Lead Guest Editor
  • Bárbara França Dantas

    Embrapa Tropical Semi-Arid/ Seed Analysis Lab, Embrapa- Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, Petrolina, Brazil

Guest Editors
  • Lucia Helena Piedade Kiill

    Embrapa Tropical Semi-Arid/ Ecology Lab, Embrapa- Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, Petrolina, Brazil

  • Francislene Angelotti

    Embrapa Tropical Semi-Arid/ Climate Change Lab, Embrapa- Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, Petrolina, Brazil

  • Renata Conduru Ribeiro

    Embrapa Tropical Semi-Arid/ Seed Analysis Lab, Embrapa- Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, Petrolina, Brazil

  • Carlos Albert Aragão

    Tecnology and Social Sciences Department, Vegetable Production Lab, Bahia State University- UNEB, Juazeiro, Brazil

  • Marcos Vinicius Meiado

    Biological Sciences Department, Seed Physiology Lab, Federal University of Sergipe- UFS, Itabaiana Campus, Itabaiana, Brazil

  • Lauro Rodrigues Nogueira Junior

    Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, Aracaju, Brazil

  • Abel Rebouças São José

    Agriculture Department, Fruticulture Lab, State University of Southwestern Bahia- UESB, Vitoria da Conquista, Brazil

  • Claudinéia Regina Pelacani

    Biology Department, Forest Orchard, State University of Feira de Santana- UEFS, Feira de Santana, Brazil

  • Fatima Conceição Márquez Piña

    Florest Engineering Department, Federal University of São Carlos- UFSCar, Sorocaba, Brazil

  • Elza Alves Correa

    Agriculture Department, São Paulo State University- UNESP, Experimental Campus of Registro, Registro, Brazil

  • Manoel Abilio de Queiroz

    Technology and Social Sciences Department, Bahia State University, Juazeiro, Brazil