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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).
Article Spotlights
Featured Articles
Candidate genes and signatures of directional selection on fruit quality traits during apple domestication
- American Journal of Botany
-  10 April 2021
Resolved phylogenetic relationships in the Ocotea complex (Supraocotea) facilitate phylogenetic classification and studies of character evolution
- Juan C. Penagos Zuluaga
- Henk van der Werff
- Brian Park
- Deren A. R. Eaton
- Liza S. Comita
- Simon A. Queenborough
- Michael J. Donoghue
- American Journal of Botany
-  5 April 2021
Molecular signatures of long‐distance oceanic dispersal and the colonization of Pacific islands in Lycium carolinianum
- American Journal of Botany
-  2 April 2021
The following is a list of the most cited articles based on citations published in the last three years, according to CrossRef.
Comparison 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
The Fungi: 1, 2, 3 … 5.1 million species?
- American Journal of Botany
-  426-438
-  1 March 2011
The 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
The 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
Chloroplast DNA phylogeny, reticulate evolution, and biogeography of Paeonia (Paeoniaceae)
- American Journal of Botany
-  1120-1136
-  1 August 1997
What's next for science communication? Promising directions and lingering distractions
-  1767-1778
-  1 October 2009
Shedding new light on the origin and spread of the brinjal eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) and its wild relatives
-  1175-1187
-  9 August 2018
A chemotaxonomic analysis of cannabinoid variation in Cannabis (Cannabaceae)
-  966-975
-  1 June 2004














