About the Journal: The "Journal of Advance Plant Science" is a peer reviewed half-yearly Journal published by Botanical society of Assam. The Journal Publishes original research papers/review articles/ book reviews/Short communications related to Plant Science.

Submission of manuscripts: All the manuscripts should be prepared/typed in double space in English in MS Word with Times New Roman font style. All the pages should bear the page numbers except figures and tables. The corresponding author should clearly mention the address of affiliating institute for further correspondence with telephone number and email ID. Format of manuscript: The manuscript should contain the title, name of the author/s, Abstract, Key words, Introduction, Materials and methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgements and References.

How to prepare and submit the manuscript

Title: It should be brief and very specific. Titles of the manuscript should be in bold (14 font size) and centered near top of the 1st page

Author(s) name should be in bold while affiliation(s) should be in italics. Corresponding author should be marked with (*) and the E-mail address of the corresponding author must be mentioned

Abstract: Each full paper should must have an abstract containing the list of the results obtained and should not exceed 200 words.

Keywords:Maximum 5 each separated by comma (,).

Text: Text of the manuscript should consist of Introduction, Materials and methods, Results and Discussions. Introduction should clearly state the rationale and significance of the work. Relevant previous literature should be cited to strengthen the discussion and should conclude stating concisely the significance of the work. There should be a brief technical description of the methods adopted for the investigation but a detailed description is required for new methods. Results should contain the findings/observations of the experiments/test carried out and should be illustrated with tables and figures. Discussion should reflect on the importance of findings of the work corroborating with those of others, with a solid conclusion. Vernacular name should not be in italics. Author(s) may acknowledge those who helped or supported the work within 50 words.

Tables, Graphs and Figures: Number of tables, graphs and figures should be minimum. The same data should not be used in both tables and graphs. Tables should be typed on separate pages. The photographs should be submitted either in TIFF or JPEG format. Bothcolored and B/W photographs are accepted.

References: In the text a reference should be given within brackets with a comma (,) between the name of the author and the year, two or more references, however, should be separated by a semicolon (;). References at the end of the text should be arranged alphabetically beginning withthe author(s) and followed by the year of the publication, title of the paper, full name of the journal in italics, volume, issue number (if any) in bracket , colon (:) and page numbers. In case of books the name(s) of publisher(s) should be given. Please follow strictly the styles of the references given below:

Hayman, B.I. 1954. The theory and analysis of diallel cross. Genetics 42: 789-809.

Fattah, Q.A., Z. Husain and A. Bano. 1978. Effect of potassium naphthenate on amylase and hexokinase activity of maize grains. Bangladesh Journal of Botany. 7(1): 77-82.

Pontecarvo, G. 1958. Trends in genetic analysis. Columbia Univ. Press, New York. pp. 530.

Burton, G. 1963. Concepts and mechanism of dormancy. In: The growth of the potato (J.D. Ivins and F.L. Milthorpe Eds.), pp. 17-41. Butterworths, London.

Declaration: All authors are requested to sign a declaration certifying that the work was carried out by them and the contents of the paper were neither published before nor submitted for publication in any other journal, and that they have submitted their articles for consideration by the Editorial Committee of the Botanical Society of Assam.

Review procedure and editorial policy: All the manuscripts shall be given to a relevant member of the Editorial Board, who will decide whether the paper merits review. Those papers which have technical problems and /or fail to meet the Journal’s standards will be returned to the authors. Papers relevant to the Journal shall be typically reviewed by two or three independent reviewers. Afterwards, the editor will take a final decision whether to accept the paper without revision, accept with revision, return with suggestions for resubmission or reject based on the reviewers’ comments. Manuscripts returned to the authors for revision should be resubmitted to the editor within two weeks from the date of receipt of the same; if received afterwards, the manuscript will be treated as a new submission and subjected to a full review process. Revised manuscripts shall also be sent for review. The editor's decision and reviewer’s comments will be communicated to the authors within 30 days of submission and the accepted papers will be published within three months after acceptance

Plagiarism: Reproduce of text from other papers without proper credit to source or produce of many papers with the same content by the same author and submitting the same paper to more than one journal concurrently is unethical and is not acceptable. Authors should acknowledge the work of others used in their research and paper. Once the article is submitted, the plagiarism shall be checked using plagiarism software available with the publishers.

Redundant publication: The author/s should not concurrently submit the same article to different journals. In case of any information on duplicate submission, the submitted article will not be considered for publication and will immediately remove from the list.

Peer review: Editor-in-Chief or executive editor or a designated editorial board member will forward the received papers to two experts in the field, without the name and other details of the authors. The reviewers will review as per checklist contain in the evaluation form to decide the publication. The observations and suggestions for improvement made by reviewer will be sent to the authors, without the names of the reviewers. In case of discrepancy in decision by the two reviewers to accept or reject the manuscript, the paper shall be sent to a third reviewer and then third reviewer decisions will be basis for rejection or acceptance for publication. All the reviewers of a paper remain anonymous to the authors and act independently before, during and after the viewing process.

Final proof reading:Authors will receive a .pdf of the edited version of their manuscript for final proofreading. This is the last opportunity to view the article before its publication. No changes or modifications can be introduced once it is published. Thus authors are requested to check their proof pages carefully against the manuscript within 3 working days and prepare a separate document containing all changes that should be introduced.

Online First Publish: Accepted manuscripts are published online using the Online First service as soon as they are ready for publication (when final proofreading has been performed by the authors, and all concerns have been resolved). Final manuscripts may appear online prior to publication of the print version. Once a manuscript has appeared on the website, it is considered as published.

Author’s Copy:After the publication of the online version, the author for correspondence is notified by email, and receives a .pdf of the published version.

Copyright: Submission of a manuscript to the journal means that all the authors of the manuscript agree automatically to give exclusive copyright to the Journal of Advance Plant science in case of acceptance of the manuscript for publication. No part of the publication may be reproduced, translated or transmitted in any form either electronically or otherwise without the prior permission of the Journal of Advance Plant science All rights of the articles published in the Journal of Advance Plant science are reserved.