Seed and Plant with more than 40 years history is a prestigious peer reviewed agricultural sciences publications in Iran, and is highly respected and popular among faculty members and rank and tenure committees of universities and agricultural research institutions as well as postgraduate students. Seed and Plant is an open access and peer-reviewed quarterly journal dedicated to the theoretical and empirical articles in the fields of plant breeding and genetics, biotechnology, agronomy and physiology of field crops, horticultural crops, and medicinal plants. Papers are subject to a double-blind peer review process to ensure the quality of their underlying research methodology and argument. This journal is following of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and complies with the highest ethical standards in accordance with ethical laws.
Articles which were presented in the national or international conferences and congresses and their abstracts published in the relevant proceedings are accepted for evaluation and review, should the contents be developed and completed the standards and formats of the Seed and Plant. Scientific short articles/reports, review and research papers would also be accepted and published. This Journal based on license No. 3/95124 dated 2011-8-30 (1390/6/8), the Publications Review Commission of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, succeeded in receiving the scientific research degree from 2011-8-13 (1390/6/1).
The first issue of peer reviewed journals of Seed and Plant Improvement Institute, “Seed and Plant Journal”, was published in autumn of 1980. Until 1990, six volumes of this journal were published. Since 1991 it has been published regularly, and earned scientific-research status from the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology of Iran in 1997. To comply with policies of the scientific-research journals commission of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology of Iran, from 2009 the Seed and Plant Journal was published as two specialized peer reviewed journals:
1- Seed and Plant Improvement Journal (SPIJ)
2- Seed and Plant Production Journal (SPPJ)
These journals published as quarterly in four issues. From 2015, Seed and Plant Production Journal published as biannual with two issues per year.
Crop Breeding Journal (CBJ), in English language, is published as biannual with two issues per year, since 2011.
From 2012, a new scientific-extension journal with the name of Research Achievements for Field and Horticultural Crops (RAFHC) is published as biannual with two issues per year.
In 2019, based on the rule and regulations no. 3104 dated 10/05/2019, approved by the scientific-research journals commission of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology of Iran, all scientific-research and scientific-extension journals that obtained peer reviewed certificates from the commission are recognized as scientific journals.
In 2019, in meetings with the editorial boards of Seed and Plant Improvement Journal and Seed and Plant Production Journal, it was suggested that these two journals should be integrated in one, with the name of the Seed and Plant Journal, and published from March 2020. This suggestion was approved by the scientific-research journals commission of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology of Iran, and the Seed and Plant Journal is published from March 2020.
We hope we can continue the evolutionary trend and promote the quality of these journals with collaborations and contributions of all Iranian scientists.
Financial Policies
Article Processing Charges
Article processing charges and any other publication fees in the journal are free for authors.
Subscription Fee
Seed and Plant publishes as an open access electronic journal, so there is no subscription fee for audiences.
Seed and Plant is a fully open-access journal, which means that all articles are available on the Web to all users immediately upon publication. Seed and Plant is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0). In this journal and under open access license, authors retain ownership of the copyright for their content, but allow anyone to download, reuse, reprint, modify, distribute, and/or copy the content as long as the original authors and source are cited properly. The authors are the copyright holder in this journal and retain the copyright and full publishing rights without restrictions.
Publication Ethics Policies
Seed and Plant is following of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and complies with the highest ethical standards in accordance with ethical laws. (See Publication Ethics Policy)