The ''Journal of Experimental Botany'' (''JXB'') is a

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published by

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on behalf of the

Society for Experimental Biology The Society for Experimental Biology is a learned society for animal, cell and plant biologists. It was founded in 1923 at Birkbeck College to "promote the art and science of experimental biology in all its branches". It aims to demonstrate the im ...

. It covers research on

plant biology Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science Natural science or empirical science is one of the branches of science concerned with the description, understanding and prediction of natural phenomena, based on empiri ...

, focusing on molecular physiology,

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, and environmental physiology. Some of its content is available under an

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licence. The editor-in-chief is John Lunn ( Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology). Research is published in five key areas: growth and development,

cell biology Cell biology (also cellular biology or cytology) is a branch of biology that studies the structure, function, and behavior of cells. All living organisms are made of cells. A cell is the basic unit of life that is responsible for the living an ...

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, plant-environment interactions, and crop

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