該雜志出版原始文章，短和技術(shù)筆記和評論文章在所有領(lǐng)域的植物學(xué)，和土壤或陸生和水生植物的生物學(xué)。征求關(guān)于植物學(xué)、土壤或植物生物學(xué)的任何方面的描述性、歷史性和實(shí)驗(yàn)性研究以及在生物體、人口、社區(qū)、生態(tài)系統(tǒng)和景觀的規(guī)模方面的報(bào)告結(jié)果的手稿，以及關(guān)于生態(tài)理論的手稿。國際實(shí)驗(yàn)植物學(xué)雜志Phyton也在該雜志上發(fā)表研討會論文集、論文和對近期論文的評論。自2015年12月1日起，只接受英文原創(chuàng)文章發(fā)表。

This Journal publishes original articles, short and technical notes and review articles in all fields of botany, and the biology of soils or terrestrial and aquatic plants. Manuscripts reporting results of descriptive, historical and experimental studies on any aspect of botany, and soil or plant biology, and at the scale of organism, population, community, ecosystem and landscape are solicited, as well as manuscripts on ecological theory.Phyton, International Journal of Experimental Botany also publishes Symposium proceedings, thesis and comments on recent papers in the journal. As from 1 December 2015 only original articles written in English will be accepted for publication consideration.