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Monarch butterfly on milkweed flowers

A recent blog post by Emerson Del Ponte asked if cover letters were a useless tradition or a missed opportunity. Well, you can probably tell from the title where we stand on this question. Indeed, we edit a lot of cover letters, with the aim of transforming them from a missed opportunity to an effective…

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Large, oval leaf from Nicotiana tabacum and four smaller heart-shaped leaves from Nicotiana benthamiana

Here at Plant Editors, we like to make sure readers know exactly what our authors mean by a specific word. For example, we generally recommend that authors provide the genus and species the first time they mention a particular plant. This helps make sure that the reader knows exactly which plant the authors are writing…

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White flowers

Here at Plant Editors, we are your partners for writing in plant biology. Our collegial, helpful, and thorough editors will read your paper, correct errors, and provide suggestions for making your writing clear, concise, and effective. As highly trained plant biologists, we also examine the content, pointing out missing controls and experimental details, flagging incorrect…

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