Template for an AoB PLANTS Main Text File
To use this template: Delete guiding text (including this box) and any unwanted
headings and subheadings as you go and replace them with your own words.
Please retain the double line spacing, Arial font style and font size (size 12 except for
title).
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RESEARCH ARTICLE; POINT OF VIEW; REVIEW; INVITED REVIEW;
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MINI-REVIEW; SHORT COMMUNICATION (delete the article types that do
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not apply)
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The paper’s title should be in bold 14-pt Arial font
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ABSTRACT
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The Abstract should be no more that 300 words in length, left-justified,
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double-spaced and in 12-pt Arial font, starting on the line below the heading.
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This section should consist of a single paragraph without any subheadings.
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Include 1–2 sentences at the beginning of the Abstract that place the work
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within a broad conceptual framework and motivate the importance of the work
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to a broad scientific audience. Do not mention your focal plant species or
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study sites in these sentences.
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KEYWORDS: Just after the Abstract, insert 6-8 keywords or short phrases,
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separated by semicolons in alphabetical order.
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INTRODUCTION (required for all article types)
The Introduction should begin on a new page, and the first few
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paragraphs of this section should place the work within a broad conceptual
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framework and motivate its importance to a broad scientific audience (Do not
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mention the focal plant species or study sites in these sentences). The last
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paragraph of the Introduction should clearly state the specific research
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questions being addressed in the manuscript and address their importance to
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the field.
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paragraph throughout the manuscript.
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METHODS (required for research articles; optional for other article
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types)
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This section should contain sufficient information to allow others to
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repeat the research. For well-known methods and their minor variants, it is
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sufficient to summarise them and provide key references. It is also critical to
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provide detailed descriptions of the study design and the statistical analyses
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performed to evaluate all focal hypotheses.
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First-level subheading, if needed
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Second-level subheading, if needed: Enter further text starting on the
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same line as this second-level subheading.
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Third-level subheading, if needed: Enter further text starting on the same
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line as this third-level italicised subheading.
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RESULTS (required for research articles; optional for other article types)
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Enter your text here. Findings should be described succinctly and
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without discussion of their significance. When describing large sets of data,
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extensive sequence information, additional illustrations, videos etc. that you
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will place in the SUPPORTING INFORMATION section, please end the
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relevant line with [see SUPPORTING INFORMATION] in squared brackets so
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that readers will know where to look. In most cases, the METHODS and
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RESULTS sections should have the same subheadings (with the exception of
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subsections such as ‘Study Sites’ and ‘Statistical Analyses’).
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First-level subheading, if needed
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data may be incorporated into the text when their scale is too small to justify a
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graph or table.
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Second-level subheading, if needed: Enter further text starting on the
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same line as this second-level subheading.
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Third-level subheading, if needed: Enter further text starting on the same
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line as this third-level italicised subheading.
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DISCUSSION (required for research articles; optional for other article
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types)
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The Discussion can be subdivided with up to three levels of
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subheadings, if needed. The major findings can be briefly highlighted at the
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beginning of this section, but the RESULTS should not be repeated. Instead,
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they should be interpreted using logic and previously published articles.
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CONCLUSIONS (required for all article types)
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This short section should include a brief summary of the major findings
of the paper and a discussion of their significance and novelty to the field
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(although editorial decisions to accept or reject papers will be based solely on
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scientific rigor and will leave judgments about the wider importance of
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published works to the scientific community).
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SUPPORTING INFORMATION
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This section should contain a short paragraph listing and briefly
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describing the contents of any SUPPORTING INFORMATION that will be
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linked to the main article. Use the following example for format:
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The following [SUPPORTING INFORMATION] is available in the online
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version of this article:
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File 1. Table. Lists the crop yields from 17 accessions of rice identified as
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having one or more copies of the Sub-1 mutation.
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File 2. Movie. Reveals the relative shoot elongation responses of several
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contrasting rice accessions.
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File 3. Diagram. Relates relative yields to several stress tolerance indices.
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ACCESSION NUMBERS
Authors are required to deposit novel sequences for nucleic acids with
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one of the principal databases (e.g., those comprising the International
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Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration: EMBL Nucleotide Sequence
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Database, GenBank or the DNA Data Bank of Japan. Details of any novel
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amino acids, proteins or protein structures should have been submitted
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previously to a data bank such as the Research Collaboration for Structural
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Bioinformatics (RCSB) Protein Databank (http://www.rcsb.org/pdb) or the
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Swiss-Prot Protein Database (Swiss-Prot). The accession numbers obtained
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and the name of the data bank used and any related identifiers should be
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stated here for each novel sequence.
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SOURCES OF FUNDING (include only after the ms. has been accepted
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for publication)
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This section should include the names of organisations that funded the
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research and, when relevant, the associated grant numbers. Write out the
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names of funding agencies in full and state the country of origin when
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appropriate. For example: Our work was funded by the Robert C. Bampton
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Foundation (Canada) and by a National Bioscience Council of Canada Plant
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Genomics Research Award (#ETL-66746).
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CONTRIBUTIONS BY AUTHORS (include only after the ms. has been
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accepted for publication)
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All authors must have made a substantial contribution to the
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manuscript and/or the research presented. This section should be used to
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outline each author’s contribution. Each author should have seen and agreed
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to the submitted manuscript. All authors will be informed by AoB PLANTS at
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the time the paper is first submitted.
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CONFLICTS OF INTEREST (include only after the ms. has been accepted
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for publication)
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If there are no conflicts of interest known to you or your co-authors
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please type ‘No conflicts of interest’ in this section. If there are conflicts of
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interest to declare, enter details stating which authors they apply to. This
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should repeat the information given in the ‘Conflicts of Interest’ section of the
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electronic submission site. A typical entry might take the form of:
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[Name of individual] has received fees within the past three years for serving
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as a consultant to the US distributor (Calgone Corporation, Michigan, USA) of
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the confocal microscope used in our work.
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[Name of individual] has approximately £25,000 of shares in the Beta
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Chemical Company that supplied the hormone action inhibitor ‘Kryptogen’
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without charge.
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[Name of individual] is a member of the Biosciences Research Board of the
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Japanese Plant Science Advisory Council that funded a substantial part of our
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research.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS (include only after the ms. has been accepted
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for publication)
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This section should be used to thank contributors, administrators etc.
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whose contributions were insufficiently substantial to merit their inclusion as
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co-authors. Please be brief. For example 'We thank . . .', rather than 'The
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present authors would like to express their thanks to . . .'.
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LITERATURE CITED
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Insert cited references here in alphabetical order. Do not insert a line of
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space between references. Use the format guidelines provided in the
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Instructions to Authors.
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(Please begin a new page for the Figure Legends)
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FIGURE LEGENDS
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Figure legends should be inserted here. Each legend should include a figure
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number in bold followed by a brief description. An example:
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Figure 1. Mean (+ 1 S.E.) dry plant biomass as a function of precipitation
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manipulation (ambient, 50% reduction) and habitat type (dune, grassland,
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scrub). Letters above bars correspond to the results of multiple comparison
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tests.
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