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This journal is a peer reviewed open access journal, manuscripts submitted after December 31, 2025 will require a one-time article processing charge (APC) upon formal manuscript acceptance.

Manuscripts submitted between January 1, 2026 and December 31, 2026 are qualified for discounted APCs. Please refer to the table below for applicable rates. Manuscripts without project funding can apply for an APC waiver. A waiver request should only be raised during the initial submission process. Waiver requests made during peer review or after acceptance will not be considered. To apply for APC reduction, please email Dr. Lin Nana at linnana@mail.kib.ac.cn

Notice:

APC payment is due within 30 days of manuscript acceptance. Please note that prompt payment is recommended as we are unable to publish accepted articles until payment has been received.

Accepted means of payment: Wire transfer in Chinese Yuan (CNY) or US Dollars (USD). Online payment by credit card is not accepted until further notice.

For more detailed information on how to pay an invoice, please contact the Plant Diversity Editorial Office.

Receipts are available upon request. Plant Diversity does not authorize any third party to collect APCs. The Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, is the sole service provider and cannot be held liable for actions by third parties.

For wire transfers, we kindly ask the customer to pay the transaction fees required by both the sender and recipient banks to ensure Plant Diversity receives the full invoiced amount.

Access Rights
All articles published open access will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read, download, copy and distribute.

User Rights
Permitted reuse is defined by the following user license:

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND):
Allows users to copy and distribute the Article, provided this is not done for commercial purposes and further does not permit distribution of the Article if it is changed or edited in any way, and provided the user gives appropriate credit (with a link to the formal publication through the relevant DOI), provides a link to the license, and that the licensor is not represented as endorsing the use made of the work. The full details of the license are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.

Author Rights
For open access publishing, this journal uses a copyright transfer agreement. Authors will transfer copyright to the Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, but will have the right to share their article in the same ways permitted to third parties under the relevant user license, as well as certain scholarly usage rights.

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