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• News from the Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality

  2023-07-07

  Dear readers, authors, reviewers and fellow editors,

  Time flies and half of 2023 is almost done. Time for a small update on the Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality!

  Last year, we published 22 original research articles (read full issue at https://ojs.openagrar.de/index.php/JABFQ/issue/view/2453) from a total of 120 submitted manuscripts. Several submissions are still in revision.

  The brand new impact factor (Clarivate, Web of Science) is 1.2, putting the journal into the 3^rd Journal Impact Factor Quartile. The Scopus CiteScore improved to 3.1, ranking the journal in the 2^nd Quartile, thus, better than 62 % of the other journals in the category plant science. A big thank you to our authors, whose quality content made this possible!

  But now let’s talk about new developments this year. There will be no special section, but were are already preparing one for next year. Until then, have fun reading the regular content at https://ojs.openagrar.de/index.php/JABFQ/issue/view/2469 with articles such as

  • Nutritional diversity in leaves of various amaranth (Amaranthus spp.) genotypes and its resilience to drought stress
  • Tolerance of transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana overexpressing apple MdAGO4.1 gene to drought and salt stress
  • Morphological characteristics and antioxidant properties of Allium ursinum L. wild growing in the northwestern part of the Republic of Srpska (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
  • Viability of Moringa oleifera seeds stored at different temperatures and recent status of Moringa oleifera collections in seed banks worldwide
  • Ultrasound-assisted extraction and (U)HPLC-DAD-ESI-MSn analysis of phenolic compounds from black chokeberries cultivated in Turkey
  • Postharvest performance of 17 apple accessions grown in NE Spain after long-term cold storage
  • Beneficial or hazardous? A comprehensive study of 24 elements from wild edible plants from Angola

  • Concentrational study of nutrients related to chelators assisted sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) from artificially cadmium-contaminated soil

  This newsletter will be send only once or twice a year and contains general information on the journal’s work. If you want to receive information on newly published content as soon as its online, feel free to subscribe to our rss feed or follow us on Twitter, if you aren’t already.

  Thank you all for supporting the journal by reading, providing reviews and of course by publishing your work with us.

  Your JABFQ Editorial Team

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• News from the Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality

  2022-02-04

  Dear readers, authors, reviewers and fellow editors,

  the new year is already one month old. Time for a small update on the Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality!

  Last year, we published 27 original research articles (read full issue at https://ojs.openagrar.de/index.php/JABFQ/issue/view/2384) from a total of 119 submitted manuscripts. Several submissions are still under review.

  Our impact factor improved to 1.451.

  The publication charge for non-society-members remains stable at 400€ (incl. VAT), with possible waivers for authors from low-income and lower-middle-income economies. In 2021, two articles received a 100% waiver and where published free of charge for the authors. For two other articles, a reduced article processing charge of 260€ was applied.

  The average journal usage is about 200 fulltext pdf downloads per day. We are working on including a download and view counter on the article pages to give better feedback to the authors.

  Last year, we have partnered with ORCID and are now a data provider. Upon publication, our authors have the chance to import their new article directly into their ORCID profile.

  But now lets talk about new developments this year! We have just opened this year’s Special Section with the title “Applied Botany for Sustainability”. With this special section, we offer the opportunity to demonstrate how applied botany can contribute to reach the Sustainable Development Goals. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs https://sdgs.un.org/goals) are a collection of 17 interlinked global goals designed to be a "blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all people and the world by 2030". They were set up in 2015 by the United Nations General Assembly. You can find more details on the special section and many suggestions for suitable topics at the journal’s website.

   We invite everyone to participate by submitting a manuscript until August 31, 2022!

  This special section is also connected to the symposium “Applied Botany for Sustainability” by the Section Applied Botany of the DGB at this year’s International Conference of the German Society for Plant Sciences. If you plan to contribute to the symposium, we invite you to submit a connected manuscript to the Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality until May 31, 2022.

  This newsletter will be send only once or twice a year and contains general information on the journal’s work. If you want to receive information on newly published content, feel free to subscribe to our rss feed or follow us on Twitter, if you aren’t already.

  Thank you all for supporting the journal by reading, providing reviews and of course by publishing your work.

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• Goodbye, 100th anniversary

  2019-12-19

  Dear readers, authors, reviewers and fellow editors,

  the year draws to a close and the 100^th anniversary of the Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality is almost over. We started this year with a look into the very first issue of ‘Angewandte Botanik’ from 1919, which is now online free to read. Hopefully, more of the historic issues will follow. To this considerable collection of findings and reports from previous generations, we added another 50 scientific articles this year, eight of which are special reviews to show the whole range of topics that are applied botany.

  The next year will bring some changes to the Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality, which you might have noticed when looking around this website carefully. More detailed information will follow. Also, a new special section is in planning for 2020 in remembrance of Prof. Dr. Reinhard Lieberei, who sadly passed away this year. He was one of the leading scientists in applied botany in Germany and we are very much looking forward to the contributions of his former students and co-workers.

  At this point, we want to thank all authors for their contributions, also those whose manuscripts we had to decline. Don’t be discouraged! Hand in any new, high qualitative work that fits the journal’s scope. We also thank the vast number of reviewers, who support the journal with their expertise and oftentimes very constructive criticism. Finally yet importantly, we thank our readers. We haven’t installed a newsletter with newly published journal content yet, but feel free to subscribe to our rss feed or follow us on Twitter, if you aren’t already.

  We hope you have relaxing holidays and a happy new year. Please bear with us, when replies during the next two weeks are a bit slow. We are recharging our batteries as well for a good start into 2020.

  Your JABFQ Editorial Team

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• Farewell to two section editors and welcome to new article processing charge

  2019-08-23

  Dear readers,

  the holiday season is over and at the editorial office, we notice an increased influx of manuscript submissions. So far, 22 manuscripts have been published this year. Have a look at the current issue and discover interesting studies on the cryopreservation of sorghum seeds, pelargonium breeding or analyses of bitter gourd, ginseng berries, Tunisian figs, Kenyan guava and many more plant derived foods.

  But there are more news than this. We have to say farewell to two of our section editors. Jürgen Bender, who covered the fields of agroecology and stress physiology in crops, will be retiring. Furthermore, Karl H. Mühling, current president of the  German Society for Quality Research on Plant Foods and responsible for manuscripts on plant nutrition and soil fertility at our journal, has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science earlier this year. This post comes with a heavy work load and will demand his full attention. We thank both, Jürgen and Karl, for their dedication and the energy they spent at the Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality in the last years and wish them all the best.

  Another important change for our authors is, that the article processing charge for manuscripts accepted for publication will raise to 400€ (incl. VAT) per article for all manuscripts submitted from 1st January 2020 onwards. As before, members of the German Society for Quality Research on Plant Foods and members of the Section Applied Botany of the German Botanical Society will not be charged, since this is included in the regular membership fees of their respective societies.

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• 100 years Journal of Applied Botany, the oldest and the newest articles are online!

  2019-02-01

  Dear readers,

   This year we want to celebrate the 100^th birthday of our journal, which was first published as Angewandte Botanik (= Applied Botany) in 1919.

  It started as journal for members of the Vereinigung für Angewandte Botanik (German Society for Applied Botany) only. On a monthly basis, it delivered the newest research results in the field of applied botany as well as short communications, literature reviews and reports from scientific meetings to the German speaking research community. After a short publication hiatus in the 1940ies, society members continued to report their findings, quickly exhausting the available print pages. Throughout the years, English titles and summaries where added, making the journal accessible for a wider, non-German speaking audience. The final step into the international research community was the opening of the journal for authors, who were not society members in the 1980ies. In 2004, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Qualitätsforschung - Pflanzliche Lebensmittel (German Society for Quality Research in Plant Foods) joined the journal due to partial overlap in their research focus, thus, making it the Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality as we know it today. The latest change happened in 2013, with the switch from a subscription based print journal to an online-only gold open access journal.  This once again broadened the readership and gained the attention of even more international researchers, which nowadays make up the majority of our journal authors.

  Today, we bring you both, the oldest volume of the journal from 1919 (in German only) and with volume 92 (2019) the newest articles. Happy reading!

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• 9 more articles and a new Impact Factor!

  2018-08-02

  Dear Readers,

  I hope to find you well. Half of 2018 is gone and we have filled over 180 pages of this year’s issue of the Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality with content. Nine articles have been added since the last newsletter in May. Browse the current issue here: https://ojs.openagrar.de/index.php/JABFQ/issue/view/1487 .

  We still weren’t unable to fix the newsletter / table of contents messages and have to resort to announcements such as this on the webpage. However, you can sign up for our RSS feed with https://ojs.openagrar.de/index.php/JABFQ/gateway/plugin/WebFeedGatewayPlugin/rss  if you use a feed reader or if your email program is able to process RSS feeds. You will then receive titles and abstracts of new articles as soon as they are published.

  Last month, the 2017 impact factors (Clarivate’s Journal Citation Reports) have been released and we are proud to announce that the upwards trend for the Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality continues. Our 2017 IF is 1.115. Likewise, our Scopus Cite Score improved to 1.24.

  Last but not least, I want to point you to the 2nd International Plant Spectroscopy Conference (IPSC-2019), which will be held in Berlin, Germany, on March 25-28, 2019. The conference brings together internationally renowned spectroscopists and plant scientists. The meeting will gather experts from fundamental to applied research and will highlight applications from academia to industry. New developments in various fields of spectroscopy and their application in plant sciences will be presented and discussed. Plenary lectures include "NMR in plant science - methods and selected examples" (Bernd Schneider), "Cheminformatics tools to query metabolomics across species, genotypes and metabolic modules" (Oliver Fiehn), "Multivariate analytical strategies for spectral data of plants" (Andras Gorzsas), "Raman microscopy combined with AFM to get a deeper insight into complex biological samples" (Malgorzata Baranska) and many more. For more information and for registration (already open!), visit http://ipsc-2019.julius-kuehn.de/.

  New articles are:

   A novel estimation method of total flavonoids in an edible medicinal mulberry leaves by ultrasound-assisted hydroalcohol-acid extraction and HPLC-DAD

   Analysis of nutritional composition and antioxidant activity of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas L.) leaf and petiole

   Antineurodegenerative, antioxidant and antibacterial activities and phenolic components of Origanum majorana L. (Lamiaceae) extracts of different origin

  Genetic resources and selected conservation methods of tomato

  Comparison of terpene and phenolic profiles of three wild species of Echeveria (Crassulaceae)

  Characterization of physico-chemical and bio-chemical compositions of selected four strawberry cultivars

  Optimization of brewing conditions in epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) extraction from Jinxuan summer green tea by response surface methodology

  Alkaloid content and essential oil composition of Mahonia breviracema cultivated under different light environments

  Characteristic amino acids in tea leaves as quality indicator for evaluation of Wuyi Rock Tea in different cultured regions

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• Issue 91 of Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality with 15 new articles published

  2018-05-03

  Dear readers, 

  I hope to find you well (and productive). After three months with the new website and submission system for the Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality, we still have some improvements to implement but all in all, the editorial workflow is running smoothly again. Unfortunately, the newsletter / table of contents messages are not working as desired yet, and we have to resort to announcements such as this on the webpage. However, you can sign up for our RSS feed with https://ojs.openagrar.de/index.php/JABFQ/gateway/plugin/WebFeedGatewayPlugin/rss  if you use a feed reader. You will then receive titles and abstracts of new articles as soon as they are published.

  We have recently signed a co-operation with CNKI, the China National Knowledge Infrastructure, which runs a very comprehensive scientific knowledge database. The Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality content will be indexed there in the near future, thus expanding its readership considerably.

   But now on to the new content! Issue 91 as been published at the beginning of this year and up until now, 15 articles with over 100 pages in total have been added:

  Gomes Farias et al: Chemical properties and protective effect of Rosmarinus officinalis: mitigation of lipid peroxidation and DNA-damage from arsenic exposure

   Ahmad et al: Phytoremediation of arsenic contaminated soild by Eucalyptus camaldulensis, Terminalia arjuna and Salix tetrasperma

  Ferouali et al: Solar drying, hygroscopic equilibrium and biochemical quality of Punica granatum legrelliae’s flowers

  D. Samsampour et al: Effect of nitric oxide (NO) on the induction of callus and antioxidant capacity of Hyoscyamus niger under in vitro salt stress

  S.H. Eom et al: Molecular cloning and functional characterization of the flavonoid 3′-hydroxylase gene from Rubus coreanus Miquel

  Sicari et al: Portulaca oleracea L. (Purslane) extracts display antioxidant and hypoglycaemic effects

  J.-S. Nam et al: Nutritional compositions in roots, twigs, leaves, fruit pulp, and seeds from pawpaw (Asimina triloba [L.] Dunal) grown in Korea

  Oehl et al: Diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in no-till and conventionally tilled vineyards

  C.R. Domínguez et al: Content of bioactive compounds and their contribution to antioxidant capacity during ripening of pineapple (Ananas comosus L.) cv Esmeralda

  M.R. Perez et al: Quality aspects in open-pollinated onion varieties from Western Europe

  Nouman et al: Drought affects size, nutritional quality, antioxidant activities and phenolic acids of Moringa oleifera LAM.

  Tom-Dery et al: Effects of elevated carbon dioxide and climate change on biomass and nutritive value of Kyasuwa (Cenchrus pedicellatus Trin.)

  A.L. Hykkerud et al: Seasonal and yearly variation of total polyphenols, total anthocyanins and ellagic acid in different clones of cloudberry (Rubus chamaemorus L.)

  Maszewska et al: The study of palm and rapeseed oil stability during frying

  Dong et al: Effect of hydrogen sulfide on surface pitting and related with cell wall metabolism in sweet cherry during cold storage

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• New year, new website!

  2018-01-19

  A happy and productive new year to our readers, reviewers and authors! We start with a fresh look and an up-to-date Open Journal System. Unfortunately, we can currently not send bi-monthly newsletters with new journal content. Until this functionality is added again, we will use announcements such as this to inform you. In this regard: nine more articles have been added to issue 90 in the last quarter of 2017. Have a look into the archive.

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