News from the Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality

Dear readers,

A belated welcome to the New Year. Spring is upon us in this part of the globe. Time for a little update on the Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality!

Last year, we published 19 original research articles (read full issue at https://ojs.openagrar.de/index.php/JABFQ/issue/view/2469) from a total of 122 submitted manuscripts. Several submissions are still in review or revision. A big thank you to our authors and reviewers for their quality contributions!

But now let’s talk about new developments this year. A new Special Section with the focus on “Applied botany in urban areas - Mitigation of climate change” is open for submission! Plants in urban areas do not usually provide food, feed or raw materials. Nevertheless, they do provide a wide range of other ecosystem services to urban populations. To highlight what these might be and how they can be improved, we invite you all to contribute to our understanding and further the development of green cities. To support us in this endeavour, we welcome Prof. Petra Schneider as Guest Editor. She is Professor for International Water Management and Head of the working group Ecological Engineering and will broaden our usual scope to include topics at the interface between engineering and botany. We welcome original research articles as well as reviews.  Further information can be found at https://ojs.openagrar.de/index.php/JABFQ/special_section.

We bid farewell to Dr. Maik Kleinwächter, who has done an excellent job for us as section editor in the fields of medicinal and aroma plants, plant analysis, secondary metabolites and alkaloids. He is moving on to new professional challenges and we wish him every success.

Further on, we welcome three new section editors. From the German Society for Quality Research on Plant Foods are joining

Dr. Christian R. Moschner (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany
Topics: spectroscopy, analytical chemistry, renewable ressources, energy crop plants

Prof. Dr. Susanne Neugart (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany)
Topics: plant product quality, sensory analysis, plant secondary metabolites, UV radiation treatment

Prof. Dr. Elke Pawelzik (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany)
Topics: plant product quality, sensory analysis, fruit and vegetable production and processing, plant nutrition

In addition, we extent a welcome back to Dr. Hartwig Schulz, former president of the German Society for Quality Research on Plant Foods and former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality. He will once again contribute his extensive knowledge in the fields of medicinal and aroma plants, secondary metabolites and spectroscopic analysis, this time as section editor.

And if you still can’t get enough news from the Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality by now, we invite you to go on and read the latest articles from this year’s issue (https://ojs.openagrar.de/index.php/JABFQ/issue/view/2485) such as

Production, antimicrobial, antioxidant, sensory, and therapeutic properties of herbal wine – A comprehensive review,  Kumaresan et al. https://doi.org/10.5073/JABFQ.2024.097.001

Preharvest calcium and irrigation regime affects postharvest quality of cape gooseberry fruit (Physalis peruviana L.),  Álvarez-Herrera et al. https://doi.org/10.5073/JABFQ.2024.097.002

Enhancing the germination of seeds and the seedling growth and development of Pistacia khinjuk stocks via a seed dormancy breaking method,  Yusuf Ersalı, https://doi.org/10.5073/JABFQ.2024.097.003

The complete chloroplast genome sequence of Hyssopus cuspidatus Boriss. and analysis of phylogenetic relationships,  Zhang et al., https://doi.org/10.5073/JABFQ.2024.097.004

Effect of site conditions and fertilization treatments on morphological traits and mineral content of Aloe vera plants, Boukour et al., https://doi.org/10.5073/JABFQ.2024.097.005

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Your JABFQ Editorial Team