Articles submitted to the journal "Plant Genetic Resources" must be original and unpublished and must not be simultaneously considered for any other publication.

Articles are accepted in Ukrainian and English. The volume of experimental articles with all materials should be 8–10 pages, review articles - up to 15 pages.

The following template is used to prepare a manuscript for submission: 

UDC

Surnames and initials of the author(s)

Name of the organization(s), its (their) postal and e-mail address(es) (12 pt)

Title of the article (uppercase bold 14 pt) 

After the title, an abstract in the language of the article (on average 120 words) is placed, which reveals the main results presented in the article, their interpretation and conclusions.

The abstract should be informative and meaningful. Do not use indefinite abbreviations or unspecified references. The abstract should be understandable without reading the article.

Below the abstract, a list of keywords is placed (up to 10, italics).

The text of the experimental article should consist of the following sections:

Title

Name(s) of author(s)

Address(es) and place of work of author(s)

Email address, full telephone and fax number of the corresponding author

Abstract

Keywords (index terms), usually 4–6 points

Introduction

Materials and methods

Results

Discussion ("Results" and "Discussion" sections can be combined)

Conclusion

References

Acknowledgements

A review article can have any number of sections with any titles. Only the conclusion is mandatory.

The volume of research papers should not exceed 10 printed pages.

MS Word (*.doc) is used.

Internationally accepted signs and symbols (SI units) are used.

The section «Introduction» includes a setting of problem in common review and it connection with actual scientific or practical tasks, short analysis  of last publications and publications in which the decision  of the problem is started, emphasizing of specific undecided questions which are in the focus of this paper, a formulation of the paper aims.

The section «Materials and methods» includes information about the object of investigations (with designation of Latin names of plants and authors of classifications), meteorological conditions when describing the field researches, methods of researches carrying and statistical analysis. 

The sections “Results” and “Discussions” includes receiving research results and identified regularities, which  derive from the received data, reasonable interpretation of the results compared with the conclusions of other researchers.

The section «Conclusions» includes reasonable generalizations of the results and the prospects of future researches in this direction.

The section «References» is formed according to DSTU 8302: 2015, includes the list of used sources in order of citation. There are surnames and initials of authors in original transcription, the title of the paper, title of the journal or the book and further: for periodical editions - the year of publication, volume, number of periodical edition, the first and the last pages; for non-periodical editions: the place of publication, the title of publishing house, the year of edition, the common quantity of pages, DOI index, if available. In the section «References» the title of the article is written in English and other bibliographic information, including names and initials - in English transliteration. The references are based on the CSE (CBE) system.

The majority of sources should reflect the current state of the scientific problem and be no older than 5-10 years. Preference should be given to materials with a high citation index and basic monographs that have a DOI, which must be indicated through a space after the bibliographic description of the source in the list of references.

The text of the article is provided in 12pt font. 

The plants names under first mentions are in paper language and Latin (italic type) with author denotation (common type), for example: Emmer wheat subspecies Ethiopian ( Triticum dicoccum (Schrank) Schuebl subsp.abyssinicum Vav.). After the next mention of this taxon paper name or Latin are used (the genus name is written short, the authors names is not given), for example: Emmer wheat subspecies Ethiopian or T. dicoccum subsp. abyssinicum are used.

The names of plant cultivatrs are written with a capital letter without quotation marks   in original language or in the language of the article. 

Tables should be created using the table function, not spreadsheets. Tables should be self-explanatory. Tables should be placed in the text immediately after the first reference. They should be cited and numbered consecutively (e.g. Table 1). An informative heading should be provided at the top of the table. Each column should have a short heading. Tables will be reproduced in the journal as they are presented in their final form. Tables that are too large to fit on the page should not be used. Details of the statistics and descriptions should be placed below the main body of the table as a footnote. Asterisks are used for significance values and other statistical data.

Illustrations/figures are presented in the text of the article with the appropriate number and title. If a detailed study of the illustration is necessary, they are presented on separate sheets.

The Times New Roman font is used in the figures.

The caption should be below the figure and should be made sufficiently clear regardless of the text. Letters and symbols should be explained in the caption and only in exceptional cases in the figure. Figures should be of good quality. Color figures will be presented in files available for download. Figures should be placed in the text area and embedded.

At the end of the article, an abstract is submitted in Ukrainian and English. If the article is submitted in English, an abstract in Ukrainian is necessarily submitted at the end of the article (mandatory for citizens of Ukraine). The abstract includes the surnames and initials of the authors, the name of the organization, its postal and e-mail addresses, the title of the article (capital letters), the text (at least 1800 characters, an average of 300 words) and the corresponding list of keywords (12 pt). Abstracts contain sections, each of which is written from a paragraph, namely: Aim, Results and Discussion, Conclusions. The names of the sections are highlighted in bold.

The paper is provided in two copies printed on A4 size paper, one of them is signed by authors. The text in electronic form is given  by e-mail (pgr-ncpgru–@ukr.net). The text is given in doc file type (MS Word 97 and higher), Times New Roman type, single line spacing, with the margins: the left one is 2.25 cm, the right one – 2 cm, the upper and the bottom ones – 2 cm.

On a separate sheet of paper the information on the author(s) (name, surname, position, scientific degree, ORCID, addresses for correspondence, telephone numbers, cells) is given.

The article, which is sent to the editorial office, is registrated and transmitted to the scientific reviewers. When there are remarks, authors receive the paper for correction. The correct copy is returned to editorial office within up to one calendar month after sending the review to the authors.  The editorial board reserves the right to reject the papers not corresponding to the theme and requirements of the journal not corrected after reviewing or not in a timely manner returned after correction.

 

Articles should be sent to:

Editorial Office of the Journal "Plant Genetic Resources"

National Center for Plant Genetic Resources of Ukraine

Yuryev Plant Production Institute of NAAS,

142 Heroiv Kharkova Ave., Kharkiv, 61060, Ukraine

Tel: +380 (67) 5460858, +380 (97) 3780421

E-mail: pgr-ncpgru@ukr.net

 

REQUIREMENTS FOR EXPERIMENTAL ARTICLES

The article must correspond to the field and issues of the journal: introduction, creation of collections, creation and allocation of sources and donors of valuable traits, use of samples and collections of the plant gene pool, identification of plant gene pool samples, information support of collections of gene pool accessions, conservation of plant genetic resources (ex situ, on farm, in situ), analytical articles on issues of plant genetic resources and their use, information on foreign business trips, symposiums, conferences, expeditions, ceremonial events, personalities, etc.; information on registration of collections and samples of the plant gene pool.

Experimental and review articles on issues of breeding, genetics, plant physiology and other branches of science related to the problems of plant genetic resources are also published.

The title of the article must correspond to its content.

The scientific novelty is present.

The structure of the article contains all the necessary sections: relevance, goal and objectives, material methods and conditions, results, conclusions.

The introduction reveals the current state and relevance of the problem.

Adequate experimental approaches are used to achieve the set goal.

Sufficiency of the research material

Reliability of the experimental material presented in the work. 

Available Statistical analysis of experimental data

Completeness of experimental data analysis

Conclusions logically follow from the results of research published in this work and correspond to its goal and objectives.

The article does not contain unwanted duplication of experimental material (for example, in the table and in the graph).

Citation of scientific sources of recent years, the quality of their elaboration, the presence and quality of the References (CBE/CSE style), the presence of DOI if they exist.

Compliance of the article with the rules of the journal.

Compliance with generally accepted rules for shortening terms.

Decoding the abbreviation when it is first used.

Completeness of presentation of the main work results in the summary.