International Journal of Plant Sciences

*International Journal of Plant Sciences*
Discipline	Plant Sciences
Language	English
Publication details
Former name(s)	Botanical Bulletin, Botanical Gazette
History	1875-present
Publisher	University of Chicago Press (United States)
Frequency	9/year
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	Int. J. Plant Sci.
Indexing;
ISSN	1058-5893;
LCCN	00-227434
JSTOR	10585893
OCLC no.	24335365
Links
	Journal homepage;

The International Journal of Plant Sciences covers botanical research including genetics and genomics, developmental and cell biology, biochemistry and physiology, morphology and structure, systematics, plant-microbe interactions, paleobotany, evolution, and ecology. The journal also regularly publishes important symposium proceedings. It is published by the University of Chicago Press. From 1875 to 1876 it was known as the Botanical Bulletin and from 1876 to 1991 as the Botanical Gazette. The first issue titled The International Journal of Plants Sciences was dated March 1992 (volume 53, number 1). For the years 1992 and 1993, the journal was published quarterly.^[1]

The journal was founded by brothers John Merle Coulter and Stanley Coulter. John brought the journal to the University of Chicago when he started the Department of Botany.^[2]