Open Access Policy

Research in Plant Biology is committed to promote Open Access. The articles published in Research in Plant Biology are freely available to the public through online medium without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access. The Research in Plant Biology is operated on a continuous publishing model. Research in Plant Biology provides immediate open access to its content, soon after final proof corrections from the author (no waiting periods for issue compilation). If the pdf full paper is not available (in the case of conference abstracts) sufficient link will be provided to contact the authors for further information.

Open Access Licensing Policy

All articles published in Research in Plant Biology are open access licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, or format for any purpose, even commercially provided the work is properly cited. Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made

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