the-plant-cell
Use when targeting The Plant Cell or deciding whether a plant biology manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill the-plant-cell --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# The Plant Cell (the-plant-cell) ## Journal positioning The Plant Cell is the flagship research journal of the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) and the premier venue for mechanistic plant cell and molecular biology. It publishes discoveries in the molecular and cellular mechanisms governing plant growth, development, stress responses, metabolism, and gene expression — where the central findings are mechanism-level, not merely observational or phenotypic. The journal is distinguished from general plant science venues by its insistence on mechanistic depth: a new gene or pathway must be explained at the molecular and cellular level, not just identified by a mutant phenotype. Readership spans plant molecular biologists, cell biologists, geneticists, and biochemists for whom Arabidopsis (and increasingly other model and crop systems) is shared experimental currency. This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** tool. It does not replace the journal's current official submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live author instructions on the ASPB/Plant Cell site. ## When to trigger - The author names The Plant Cell as the target venue for a mechanistic p
- Journal positioning
- When to trigger
- Scope & topic fit
- Method & evidence bar
- Structure & house style
- Official-submission checklist
- Pre-submission self-check
- Common desk-reject triggers
- Re-routing decision
- Output format
What does the the-plant-cell skill do?
Use when targeting The Plant Cell or deciding whether a plant biology manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill the-plant-cell --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 984 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.