''Plant and Soil'' is a monthly
peer-reviewed
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scientific journal
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covering research on the relationships between plants and soil, such as relationships and interactions of plants with minerals, water and microbes, the anatomy and morphology of
root
In vascular plants, the roots are the plant organ, organs of a plant that are modified to provide anchorage for the plant and take in water and nutrients into the plant body, which allows plants to grow taller and faster. They are most often bel ...
s,
soil biology
Soil biology is the study of microbial and faunal activity and ecology in soil.
Soil life, soil biota, soil fauna, or edaphon is a collective term that encompasses all organisms that spend a significant portion of their life cycle within a so ...
and ecology, etc. It is published by
Springer Science+Business Media
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Originally founded in 1842 in ...
on behalf of the
Royal Netherlands Society of Agricultural Science (Koninklijke Landbouwkundige Vereniging).
The
editor-in-chief
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is Hans Lambers (
The University of Western Australia
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and
China Agricultural University). According to the ''
Journal Citation Reports
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'', the journal has a 2020
impact factor
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The Impact Factor of a journa ...
of 4.192.
The journal is indexed in
Scopus
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and
SCImago
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Etymology
SCImag ...
.
References
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Koninklijke Landbouwkundige Vereniging
Agricultural journals
Soil science journals
English-language journals
Academic journals established in 1948
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