A skill your agent uses when targeting The Plant Journal or deciding whether a plant-science manuscript fits this venue.

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Install The Plant Journal

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill the-plant-journal -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills the-plant-journal --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/Agriculture-Environment-Journal-Skills/skills/the-plant-journal .claude/skills/the-plant-journal && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
the-plant-journal
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.7k tokens
SKILL.md length
673 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when targeting The Plant Journal or deciding whether a plant-science manuscript fits this venue.

  • Targeting The Plant Journal
  • SKILL.md covers Journal positioning, When to trigger, Scope & topic fit and Method & evidence bar, plus 6 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Deciding whether a plant-science manuscript fits this venue

What it does

The Plant Journal is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when targeting The Plant Journal or deciding whether a plant-science manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the mechanistic gene-to-function and molecular-rigor bar, evidence and data-deposition expectations, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.7k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: Journal-specific Claude Code/Codex skill packs covering mainstream journals — AER, QJE, Nature, Cell, 管理世界, 经济研究 & 200+ more — your fast track to getting published. | 覆盖主流期刊的… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Targeting The Plant Journal
  • Deciding whether a plant-science manuscript fits this venue

Example prompts

  • “/the-plant-journal”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 932eb23. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

The Plant Journal loads about 1.7k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 79 tokens; SKILL.md has 673 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~79
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.7k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 673 words, ~1,677 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/the-plant-journal/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
the-plant-journal
description
Use when targeting The Plant Journal or deciding whether a plant-science manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the mechanistic gene-to-function and molecular-rigor bar, evidence and data-deposition expectations, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.

The Plant Journal (the-plant-journal)

Journal positioning

The Plant Journal, published for the Society for Experimental Biology by Wiley, is a plant-science journal focused on the molecular, cellular, biochemical, and genetic mechanisms that govern plant biology — how genes, proteins, metabolites, and regulatory networks produce plant function. Its defining expectation is rigorous mechanistic evidence: a gene-to-function study that establishes how something works, supported by genetics, biochemistry, and cell biology, not a phenotype with a plausible candidate. A descriptive or whole-organism/ecological observation with no resolved molecular mechanism fits an ecology/physiology journal better. This skill is a fit / venue-selection / re-framing tool. It does not replace the journal's current author guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live The Plant Journal author guidance.

When to trigger

  • The author names The Plant Journal and wants a fit/framing check for a mechanistic molecular-plant paper.
  • A phenotype or candidate-gene observation must be elevated into a resolved gene-to-function mechanism with the right molecular evidence.
  • The author is deciding between The Plant Journal and new-phytologist and needs the molecular-mechanism versus ecology/physiology-breadth distinction made explicit.
  • The author needs The Plant Journal's desk-reject heuristics and a credible alternative route.

Scope & topic fit

  • Gene function and regulation: transcriptional, post-transcriptional, and epigenetic control established by loss/gain-of-function genetics.
  • Protein biochemistry, enzymology, and metabolic and signaling pathways with mechanistic resolution.
  • Cell biology: organelle function, trafficking, cytoskeleton, and subcellular dynamics in plants.
  • Plant development and physiology where the contribution is the underlying molecular/genetic mechanism.
  • Plant–microbe and stress responses analyzed at the molecular and biochemical level.
  • Genomics, gene-editing, and tool/resource papers that enable mechanistic plant biology.

Method & evidence bar

  • The central claim must be a resolved molecular mechanism: gene-to-function supported by complementary genetics (mutants/complementation/allelic series), biochemistry, and localization, not a single line of correlative evidence.
  • Knockouts/knockdowns need complementation and, where feasible, independent alleles; off-target and dosage effects should be addressed.
  • Protein and metabolite claims need direct biochemical assays with controls, quantification, and replication; interaction claims need orthogonal validation.
  • '-omics' and high-throughput datasets must be followed by functional validation of key hits; candidate lists alone are insufficient.
  • Sequence, structure, and large datasets must be deposited per community standards with accession numbers; statistics, N, and replication must be reported.

Structure & house style

  • The Plant Journal publishes research articles, resource/technical articles, and reviews; re-check current article types and length on the live guide.
  • The introduction must define the molecular question and the mechanistic gap, then build the gene-to-function logic through the figures.
  • Main figures should carry the mechanistic chain (genetics → biochemistry → cell biology); extended controls and replicates go to supporting information.
  • Methods and data-availability statements must allow reproduction; accession numbers and germplasm sources must be complete.
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Official-submission checklist

  • Before giving submission-ready advice, read ../../resources/source-basis.md and ../../resources/official-source-map.md; start from the official source anchors, then cite the current The Plant Journal page you checked.
  • Search the live site for "The Plant Journal author guidelines" and follow the current SEB/Wiley version.
  • Re-check article types, word/figure expectations, and abstract format.
  • Confirm sequence/structure/'-omics' deposition requirements, accession-number reporting, and germplasm/material availability.
  • Re-check competing-interests, funding, author-contribution, and AI-use disclosure, and open-access terms.
  • If the live official instructions conflict with this skill, the official instructions win.

Pre-submission self-check

  • The contribution is a resolved gene-to-function mechanism, not a phenotype with a candidate.
  • Knockouts/knockdowns are complemented and corroborated by independent alleles where feasible.
  • Biochemical/interaction claims have direct assays, controls, and orthogonal validation.
  • '-omics' hits are functionally validated, not presented as a candidate list.
  • Sequences/structures/datasets are deposited with accessions; N and replication are reported.
  • Article type and data/material-availability statements are prepared.

Common desk-reject triggers

  • A phenotype with a plausible candidate gene but no mechanistic resolution.
  • A knockdown phenotype with no complementation and no independent allele.
  • Interaction or localization claims from a single assay without orthogonal confirmation.
  • '-omics' catalogues with no functional follow-up of key candidates.
  • A whole-organism or ecological observation with no molecular mechanism — scope mismatch.

Re-routing decision

  • Ecology, physiology, whole-plant/ecosystem-scale integration → new-phytologist.
  • Deepest mechanistic cell biology with broad cell-biology significance → the-plant-cell.
  • Broad headline plant-science significance for a Nature audience → nature-plants.
  • Field-scale agronomy and yield → field-crops-research.
  • Cross-discipline methodological advance with wide reach → nature-communications or science-advances.

Output format

text
[Fit] High / Medium / Low (one-line reason)
[Target] The Plant Journal
[Topic tags] <2–3 closest molecular/genetic plant topics>
[Mechanism] <the resolved gene-to-function chain and its evidence>
[Method/evidence] <do genetics + biochemistry + validation clear The Plant Journal's bar?>
[Top risk] <the single most likely reason for rejection>
[Official items to re-check] <article type / accession deposition / material availability / disclosures>
[Re-route suggestion] <if not a fit, a better-matched venue>

© brycewang-stanford, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in Agriculture-Environment-Journal-Skills/skills/the-plant-journal of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about The Plant Journal

What does The Plant Journal do?

A skill your agent uses when targeting The Plant Journal or deciding whether a plant-science manuscript fits this venue. The Plant Journal is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when targeting The Plant Journal or deciding whether a plant-science manuscript fits this venue.

When should I use The Plant Journal?

The Plant Journal fits situations like: targeting The Plant Journal; deciding whether a plant-science manuscript fits this venue.

How do I install The Plant Journal in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill the-plant-journal -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Agriculture-Environment-Journal-Skills/skills/the-plant-journal in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/the-plant-journal in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install The Plant Journal in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill the-plant-journal -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Agriculture-Environment-Journal-Skills/skills/the-plant-journal in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/the-plant-journal in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use The Plant Journal in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill the-plant-journal -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/the-plant-journal, .gemini/skills/the-plant-journal, .github/skills/the-plant-journal and .opencode/skills/the-plant-journal in your project.

What does The Plant Journal need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: The Plant Journal is instructions for the agent only.

Does The Plant Journal access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is The Plant Journal safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does The Plant Journal use?

The Plant Journal is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does The Plant Journal use?

About 1.7k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.7k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains The Plant Journal?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,231 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2,387 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 27, 2026.

Source: brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.