We are pleased to present the first issue of Plant Diversity, a new international Plant Science journal focusing on evolutionary processes that create and maintain plant diversity. We believe that a journal devoted to understanding how plant diversity evolves and is maintained is highly needed. This understanding is impossible to achieve without integrated knowledge of the evolutionary processes acting at the molecular, cellular and whole plant level, and of the phenomena operating within plant

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... populations and communities. This is why Plant Diversity will cover various aspects of plant science, encompassing evolutionary, phylogenetic, genomic and biogeographical studies at different taxonomic levels. In addition to research drawn from all plant groups, bryological, lichenological, mycological and phycological studies will also be considered.