Plant Breeding and Biotechnology (Plant Breed. Biotech., PBB) publishes original and peer-reviewed research and review articles in all areas of basic and practical researches in the field of plant breeding and biotechnology including breeding methodologies, genetics, and genomics of economically important crop species. Its aim is to provide readers cutting-edge information on the use of genetic, genomic, and molecular techniques. Since the journal embraces all aspects of plant improvement, readers from both academia and industry will benefit from the contents it offers. The Plant Breeding and Biotechnology (PBB) is the official journal of the Korean Society of Breeding Science (KSBS) which started on March 2013. It is an international open access journal which publishes constantly on real-time and is available in an electronic version. PBB is indexed in the Korea Citation Index KCI, DOI/Crossref, Scopus and Google Scholar.

Copyright

Articles published in Plant Breeding and Biotechnology are open-access, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
‘Plant Breeding and Biotechnology’ retains the exclusive copyright to reproduce and distribute including reprints, translations, photographic reproductions, microform, electronic form (offline, online) or any other reproductions of similar nature for all ‘Plant Breeding and Biotechnology’ publications. Duplicate publications should not be represented as original site of publications; rather, PBB should be cited as the original site of publication. Except for these misuses, anyone is free to read, download, copy, share, store, print, search, link, and crawl the full-test of the work.

Subscription

KSBS will send Plant Breeding and Biotechnology for free to KSBS members, and certain key individuals in the field by invitation.

Electronic Edition

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No registration or subscription is required for access to the electronic edition of Plant Breeding and Biotechnology.

Self-Archiving Policy for Electronic Edition

Authors of articles are permitted to self-archive the PDF version of the article at any time after an embargo period.

Editorial and Review Policy

All research and review papers are reviewed by at least two reviewers and accepted by the Editorial Board. Instructions to Authors, Authors checklist, and Copyright transfer statement are served on the website http://www.plantbreedbio.org.