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Feature Papers of J—Multidisciplinary Scientific Journal in 2024
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Feature Papers of J—Multidisciplinary Scientific Journal in 2024

A special issue of J (ISSN 2571-8800).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 812

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Prof. Dr. James David Adams

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Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce a new Special Issue entitled “Feature Papers of J—Multidisciplinary Scientific Journal in 2024”. J is a peer-reviewed, open access journal addressing all natural and applied sciences published online by MDPI every quarter. Our goal is to improve the rapid dissemination of new research results and ideas and to allow research groups to create new studies, innovations, and knowledge without delay.

This Special Issue will be a collection of high-quality papers contributed by excellent scholars from around the world. We expect original papers and comprehensive review papers in the fields of "Biology and Life Sciences" and "Medicine and Pharmacology". The papers will be published, free of charge, with full open access after peer review to benefit both authors and readers.

You are welcome to send short proposals for submitting Feature Papers to our Editorial Office (J@mdpi.com) before submission. The Editors will first evaluate them. Please note that selected full papers will still be subjected to a thorough and rigorous peer review.

We look forward to receiving your excellent work.

Prof. Dr. James David Adams
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Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. J is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1200 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

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Genome Doubling of Northern Spicebush, Lindera benzoin L.
by Ramsey F. Arram, Thomas B. Morgan, John T. Nix, Yu-Lin Kao and Hsuan Chen
J 2024, 7(2), 116-126; https://doi.org/10.3390/j7020007 - 22 Mar 2024
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Lindera benzoin is a dioecious understory shrub native to eastern North America. Northern spicebush is a beautiful shrub with a natural round shrub shape, golden-yellow fall foliage, attractive bright red drupes, and precocious yellow flowers in early spring; however, its market value as [...] Read more.
Lindera benzoin is a dioecious understory shrub native to eastern North America. Northern spicebush is a beautiful shrub with a natural round shrub shape, golden-yellow fall foliage, attractive bright red drupes, and precocious yellow flowers in early spring; however, its market value as an ornamental value has been overlooked. To improve the ornamental values of this under-cultivated nursery crop, breeding for a better compact form, larger leaves, enlarged flower clusters and fruit, and increased stress tolerances could all be beneficial. Polyploidy manipulation is a valuable method to improve such traits for many ornamental plants. This study established the genome doubling method by oryzalin-infused solid agar treatment on young northern spicebush seedlings. The seedlings of two wild populations in North Carolina were collected and used. A total of 288 seedlings were treated with solid agar containing 150 µM oryzalin for 24, 72, and 120 h. The results were sporadic in their survival ratios and tetraploid conversion ratios between different treatments; however, a total of 16 tetraploid L. benzoin plants were produced in this study. The 24-h treatment showed the optimal result, with 7.1% of total treated seedlings or 15.2% of surviving seedlings converted into tetraploids. Tetraploid plants had visible differences in leaf morphology, a statistically significant enlarged stomata size, and reduced stomatal density compared to diploid plants. This research provides ploidy manipulation information for all future breeding processes of L. benzoin and related species. Full article
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