Call for papers – Plant and Algae Development

Development, host of the Node, invites you to submit your latest research to our upcoming Special Issue – Plant and Algae Development. This issue will be coordinated by Academic Editor Dominique Bergmann (Stanford University, USA) and Guest Editor Susana Coelho (Max Planck Institute for Biology, Tübingen, Germany).

Developmental biology aims to understand how a single cell, the zygote, becomes a complex multicellular organism with specialised cell types organised into functional units. Derived from unicellular ancestors, algae, plants and animals use shared developmental principles, such as biophysical interactions, signalling, patterning and cell fate determination, to innovate and overcome obstacles for multicellular development, such as coordinating growth. The highly plastic development of photosynthetic organisms have long offered specific opportunities to answer questions regarding the origins of multicellularity, stem cell maintenance and regeneration, as well as environmental and microbial interactions and integration. In recent years, advances in genomics, imaging and synthetic biology are revealing how gene regulatory networks, mechanical biology and signalling interact to shape form and function in plants and algae. Furthermore, mathematical, computational and modelling approaches combined with traditional experimental biology have revealed, explained and predicted quantifiable properties behind phenotypes and across scales. We also see an exciting range of research organisms in use today, including species of algae, moss, ferns, flowering plants and others. In this special issue, we aim to showcase the contribution of plants and multicellular algae to our understanding of development, regeneration and evolution, highlighting quality research across the entire breadth of developmental biology.

The deadline for submitting research papers is 2 November 2026.

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