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American Journal of Botany (AJB) is an internationally renowned journal publishing innovative, significant research of interest to a wide audience of scientists in all areas of plant biology (including ecology, evolution, physiology, biodiversity, systematics, development, genetics, paleobotany, structure and function), all levels of organization (ecosystem to molecular), and all organisms studied by botanical researchers (including land plants, algae, fungi, lichen, cyanobacteria).
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Latitudinal clines in bud flush phenology reflect genetic variation in chilling requirements in balsam poplar, Populus balsamifera
- American Journal of Botany
-  22 November 2020
Open accessSmall herbaria contribute unique biogeographic records to county, locality, and temporal scales
- Travis D. Marsico
- Erica R. Krimmel
- J. Richard Carter
- Emily L. Gillespie
- Phillip D. Lowe
- Ross McCauley
- Ashley B. Morris
- Gil Nelson
- Michelle Smith
- Diana L. Soteropoulos
- Anna K. Monfils
- American Journal of Botany
-  20 November 2020
Leaf dorsoventrality candidate gene CpARF4 has conserved expression pattern but divergent tasiR‐ARF regulation in the water fern Ceratopteris pteridoides
- American Journal of Botany
-  20 November 2020
free accessA quick glance at noteworthy articles for November 2020
- American Journal of Botany
-  18 November 2020
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The following is a list of the most cited articles based on citations published in the last three years, according to CrossRef.
free accessComparison of whole chloroplast genome sequences to choose noncoding regions for phylogenetic studies in angiosperms: the tortoise and the hare III
- American Journal of Botany
-  275-288
-  1 March 2007
free accessThe Fungi: 1, 2, 3 … 5.1 million species?
- American Journal of Botany
-  426-438
-  1 March 2011
free accessThe tortoise and the hare II: relative utility of 21 noncoding chloroplast DNA sequences for phylogenetic analysis
- Joey Shaw
- Edgar B. Lickey
- John T. Beck
- Susan B. Farmer
- Wusheng Liu
- Jermey Miller
- Kunsiri C. Siripun
- Charles T. Winder
- Edward E. Schilling
- Randall L. Small
- American Journal of Botany
-  142-166
-  1 January 2005
free accessThe functional role of producer diversity in ecosystems
- Bradley J. Cardinale
- Kristin L. Matulich
- David U. Hooper
- Jarrett E. Byrnes
- Emmett Duffy
- Lars Gamfeldt
- Patricia Balvanera
- Mary I. O'Connor
- Andrew Gonzalez
- American Journal of Botany
-  572-592
-  1 March 2011
Spatial genetic structure of a tropical understory shrub, PSYCHOTRIA OFFICINALIS (RuBIACEAE)
- American Journal of Botany
-  1420-1425
-  1 November 1995
free accessChloroplast DNA phylogeny, reticulate evolution, and biogeography of Paeonia (Paeoniaceae)
- American Journal of Botany
-  1120-1136
-  1 August 1997
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What's next for science communication? Promising directions and lingering distractions
-  1767-1778
-  1 October 2009
free accessShedding new light on the origin and spread of the brinjal eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) and its wild relatives
-  1175-1187
-  9 August 2018
free accessA chemotaxonomic analysis of cannabinoid variation in Cannabis (Cannabaceae)
-  966-975
-  1 June 2004













