Plant Communications is dedicated to serving the global plant science community by providing a high-quality open access publishing platform. Plant Communications publishes original research results addressing either fundamental or applied aspects of plant sciences, important technical advances, highly useful research resources, and outstanding review articles in all areas of plant sciences, including, but not limited to, the evolution, ecology, physiology, biochemistry, development, reproduction, metabolism, molecular and cellular biology, genetics, genomics, environmental interactions, biotechnology, and breeding of both higher and lower plants, as well as their interactions with other organisms throughout the biosphere.