''Annals of Botany'' is a monthly

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publishing experimental, theoretical and applied papers on all aspects of plant biology. The current (2022) Chief Editor is Rowan Sage, replacing John Seymour (Pat) Heslop-Harrison (

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, UK and the

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appointed in 2008). The journal is owned and managed by th
Annals of Botany Company
a non-profit educational charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales. It is published monthly through

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in paper form and online, and is paid for primarily by institutional annual subscriptions. Regular extra issues, published free-of-charge, focus on topical themes. The journal does not levy page charges but authors may choose to pay a standard fee to secure

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status for their papers. According to ''

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'', in 2019 (published 2020) ''Annals of Botany''’s

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was 4.005 and was ranked 27th out of 234 journals in the Plant Sciences category. The Journal's Eigenfactor was 0.01652, its H-Index 165 and th
SCImago score
1.615. Also owned by the educational charity, ''Annals of Botany'' has two sister journals, '' AoB Plants'', an online only open access botanical journal and
in silico PLANTS
', an online open access journal devoted to plant modelling. It is also closely associated with the informal online plant science publication
Botany One
'' ''Annals of Botany'' was established in 1887 by

Isaac Bayley Balfour Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour, KBE, FRS, FRSE (31 March 1853 – 30 November 1922) was a Scottish botanist. He was Regius Professor of Botany at the University of Glasgow from 1879 to 1885, Sherardian Professor of Botany at the University of Oxfor ...

(Sir Isaac from 1920) and

Sydney Howard Vines Sydney Howard Vines Royal Society, FRS (31 December 1849 – 4 April 1934) was a British botanist and academic. He was Sherardian Professor of Botany at Oxford University from 1888 to 1919, and served as President of the Linnean Society of London ...

with support from eight other prominent botanists of the time including

Sir Francis Darwin Sir Francis "Frank" Darwin (16 August 1848 – 19 September 1925) was a British botanist. He was the third son of the naturalist and scientist Charles Darwin. Biography Francis Darwin was born in Down House, Downe, Kent in 1848. He was th ...

and

William Turner Thiselton-Dyer Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer (28 July 1843 – 23 December 1928) was a leading British botanist, and the third director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Life and career Thiselton-Dyer was born in Westminster, London. He was a son of ...

(Sir William from 1899). An extensive collection of letters, Minutes and accounts covering the first 125 years of the Journal's existence has been archived as the Annals of Botany Papers at the

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. An internationally important botanical research and education institution, it employs 1,100 ...

. A two-part history has been published based on this archive. Former Chief Editors (or equivalent) and their sometimes overlapping periods of office are as follows:

FRS, 1887–1900; Dunkinfield Henry Scott FRS, 1900–1912; Sir

John Bretland Farmer Sir John Bretland Farmer FRS FRSE (5 April 1865 – 26 January 1944) was a British botanist. He believed that chromomeres not chromosomes were the unit of heredity. Farmer and J. E. S. Moore introduced the term ''meiosis'' in 1905. Life ...

FRS.,1912-1921; Vernon Herbert Blackman FRS, 1921–1947;

William Harold Pearsall William Harold Pearsall (23 July 1891 – 14 October 1964) was a British botanist, Quain Professor of Botany at University College London 1944–1957.‘PEARSALL, William Harold’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing pl ...

FRS 1948–1964; John ( Jack) Heslop-Harrison FRS, 1961–1967; James Frederick Sutcliffe, 1967–1983; John A. Bryant, 1983–1984; John Anthony Abbott, 1983–1984; David Frederick Cutler, 1984-1990; Roderick Hunt, 1990–1996; Michael Barson Jackson, 1996–2008. There was an earlier periodical ''Annals of Botany'' edited by Carl Dietrich Eberhard König (Charles Konig) and John Sims which started in 1804 and published two volumes before ceasing.

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