the-plant-journal
Use when targeting The Plant Journal or deciding whether a plant-science manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the mechanistic gene-to-function and molecular-rigor bar, evidence and data-deposition expectations, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill the-plant-journal --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 Journal (the-plant-journal) ## Journal positioning The Plant Journal, published for the Society for Experimental Biology by Wiley, is a plant-science journal focused on the **molecular, cellular, biochemical, and genetic mechanisms** that govern plant biology — how genes, proteins, metabolites, and regulatory networks produce plant function. Its defining expectation is **rigorous mechanistic evidence**: a gene-to-function study that establishes how something works, supported by genetics, biochemistry, and cell biology, not a phenotype with a plausible candidate. A descriptive or whole-organism/ecological observation with no resolved molecular mechanism fits an ecology/physiology journal better. This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** tool. It does not replace the journal's current author guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live The Plant Journal author guidance. ## When to trigger - The author names The Plant Journal and wants a fit/framing check for a mechanistic molecular-plant paper. - A phenotype or candidate-gene observation must be elevated into a resolved gene-to-function mechanism with the right molecular evidence. - The author is deciding
- 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-journal skill do?
Use when targeting The Plant Journal or deciding whether a plant-science manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the mechanistic gene-to-function and molecular-rigor bar, evidence and data-deposition expectations, 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-journal --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 909 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.