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1 PlantNow vol 1(1) 2020 https://plantnowjournal.wordpress.com/ Editorial Board Please address all correspondence to the editor (including the advertisement file) for more details. Editor-in-Chief Leonardo M. Versieux, Ph.D. (Plant Systematics and art/landscape design, Dept. of Botany and Zoology, Aims and scope UFRN). PlantNow is a quarterly scientific plant journal devoted to +55 (84) 991445077 a broad and applied scope of knowledges about plants. We aim to become a venue enhancing plant perception Deputy Editor-in-Chief and to approximate art and science. We aim to we aim to Alice Calvente, Ph.D. (Plant Systematics and Evolution, strength botany and fill the gap between academic Dept. of Botany and Zoology, UFRN) knowledge and the general public. Also, we aim to help botanists to publish fast and enhance our local community Managing Editor and increase awareness about botany in Rio Grande do Valdeci F. Sousa, M. Sc. (Ph.D. candidate in Systematics Norte State, in the northeast of Brazil. and Evolution, UFRN) Submission of Manuscripts Associate Editors Please send your work to [email protected] Adriana Monteiro de Almeida (UFRN, Brazil) Or if you wish to discuss any issue prior to your Adriana Pinheiro Martinelli (USP, Brazil) submission you may contact the editor-in-chief by WhatsApp, as well. Portuguese and Spanish are Alexandre Fadigas de Souza (UFRN, Brazil) preliminarily accepted but English is preferred. Eduardo Voigt (UFRN, Brazil) Submission rate: R$299 for Brazilian’s corresponding authors or US$99 for any international corresponding Fernanda Antunes Carvalho (UFMG, Brazil) author. Minority authors may apply for free submission. A Joseph Williams Jr. (Univ. of Tennessee, U.S.A.) single abstract, in English, is mandatory. We encourage Brazilian indigenous communities to publish works in Juliana Espada Lichston (UFRN, Brazil) their native languages. There is no keywords number Lynn G. Clark (Iowa State Univ., U.S.A.) limit. Rafael de Paiva Farias (UFAC, Brazil) Instructions for authors: Raquel Versieux (UFRJ/URCA, Brazil) https://plantnowjournal.wordpress.com/ Taisa Lewitzki (UFRN, Brazil). Published by Talita Mota Machado (Brazil) Leonardo de Melo Versieux Vanessa Graziele Staggemeier (UFRN, Brazil) [email protected] R. Abraham Tahim 1947 / 601 Cover image Capim Macio, Natal, RN A view from the canopy of the Atlantic forest from an 59082-160 – Brazil underground tunnel. Are plants our lights? © L. Versieux. Phone: +55 (84) 991555077 Our covers and legends are expected to be provocative, artistic and to have their own content and meaning, thus Supported by artwork may be submitted independently to be considered for future covers. Herbário UFRN http://ufrn.jbrj.gov.br/ Increasing the knowledge Advertisements about the flora, Our journal offers the last page of each issue as a space conservation and use of for your product. Prices per issue: Full-page plants in RN. (US$30/R$90) and half-page (US$15/R$45). [email protected] 2 PlantNow DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.12143472 vol 1: 3–5 (2020) https://plantnowjournal.wordpress.com/ Launching PlantNow, a local journal devoted to increase awareness about plants Leonardo M. Versieux1*, Alice Calvente1, Valdeci F. Sousa1 1 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Departamento de Botânica e Zoologia, Centro de Biociências, Herbário UFRN, Natal, 59072-970, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. *E-mail: [email protected] Received 10 Jan 2020 Accepted for publication 10 Apr 2020 Published 27 Jun 2020 Abstract Local, polemic, floristic, personal, independent, artistic, lacking any respect for traditional styles of scientific journals, or their metrics, questioning why reviewers and editors are not paid by publishers that charge for subscriptions of their journals, in this paper we propose a local journal called PlantNow, that will act locally, enhancing our research group on botany and promoting knowledge about plants, in a state where people are usually not attached to plants or to botany. Keywords: botany, floristic survey, plant blindness, Rio Grande do Norte basic schools, plant perception, agroecology, and urban 1. Introduction forestry. Although originally created to publish results of local PlantNow is a scientific plant journal devoted to a broad floras, new species occurrences and descriptive results related and applied scope of knowledges about plants. We aim to to the research conducted in Rio Grande do Norte, the poorest become a venue enhancing plant perception, and botany state in terms of plant species numbers in Brazil, we believe awareness by the society, by filling the gap between academic these themes are broad and will call submissions from knowledge and the general public. Also, we aim to help different parts of Brazil or other countries, since the study of botanists to publish fast and enhance our local community and plants or of the relation of plants and people are growing increase awareness about botany in Rio Grande do Norte topics in the academic life and in the society as whole. After State, in the northeast of Brazil. 10 years teaching plant systematics, we felt a rising need to PlantNow aims to help solving or diminishing the ‘plant give some meaning on the use of scientific / floristic data, blindness’ or ‘green blindness’, publish rapidly, open access particularly in Brazil, where the flora is rich but the overall papers, letters, artistic work, book reviews, monographs, knowledge of the people about plants is low, including descriptive papers, experimental based works, botany politicians and people involved in the administration of parks education and science learning reports, conservation of plants and city green areas. and their habitats, urban ecology/urban botany, plant invasion, The journal was created by Profs. Leonardo Versieux and species list, catalogues and checklists for reserves and parks, Alice Calvente, both Ph.D., with a broad experience in botany discuss the use of native plants in landscape design and other teaching as well as serving as editorial members of cultural applications of plants. Also, we are interested in the international botanical journals, together with a former M.Sc. interface between ecology and art, ex-situ conservation, student, Valdeci Sousa, currently a Ph.D. candidate in our botanic gardens, gardening, horticulture, garden history, plant university, UFRN. All the following papers presented in this ecology, ecosystem restoration, practices involving plants in 3 © The authors PlantNow VERSIEUX et al. vol 1: 3–5 (2020) https://plantnowjournal.wordpress.com/ first volume were rejected by traditional Brazilian botany that this ‘disorganization’ will help raise creative solutions journals, which considered some of them as “too descriptive” and speed up submissions. Nevertheless, any taxonomical or “too regional”, ignoring the cultural, historical and funding paper must follow the Botanical Code and make scientific asymmetry existing even within a single country. We decided sense to any reader. Papers will be published following several that it was about time to innovate, and to create our own aleatory events, but we will do our best to be fast to close each journal, a local journal to support our local findings and to volume. We offer space for advertisements, as well. show to our students that their works have scientific quality Portuguese and Spanish are preliminarily accepted but and need to be published. Conclude by yourself! English is preferred. A single abstract, in English, is We are proud to be local and we aim to increase the floristic mandatory. We encourage Brazilian indigenous communities knowledge and enhance descriptive characterization of poorly to publish works in their native languages, if this is not a known species or distributional data because ecosystems are limitation to peer-review. There is no keywords number limit. being destroyed, and it is in the localities and by locals that Many scientific journals are proud to say, in bold letters, things can be changed. We do believe that we must ACT, that all work must be reviewed by a native speaker. As thinking globally but operating locally, adopting site-specific Brazilians, who strive to speak and write in the official or site-oriented strategies, having people and plants together, language of science, which is English, we understand that such hand-in-hand. a requirement is for clarity of understanding. But why don't We are proud to be local, and no paper submitted to this we help each other? We are by no means encouraging journal will ever be rejected simply because of their limited carelessness in the writing, our editors will help as much as geographic coverage. We aim to discuss local problems, possible to ensure that what you mean is correct but we want applying the scientific methods to describe experiments of our readers to bring that more tolerant look when they are teaching botany, perception of plants by the local society, reading our articles. observations regarding ornamental species, reports relating Submit as a single file, in word, .docx to our email: plants and green areas by the public administrations. We are [email protected]. Figures within the text. Keep not restricted to only scientist written papers. And we are not things as simple as possible (if you wish) and avoid heavy restricted to written language, pictures, schemes, photos, figures. artwork, links to videos may be depicted in our pages, as well. PlantNow is personal, and the relation between authors, PlantNow is based in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, in the editors and reviewers is seen as an exchange of knowledges or northeast of Brazil, far from the big cities and traditional suggestions. No problems to talk to each other or diverge or to botany research centers, it is conducted by persons, mostly know who revised your work (we stimulate non-anonymous women, and we want that this journal be somehow handmade. reviewers). Science is done by people, with their names, times PlantNow is innovative in the way it deals with the revision and contradictions.