During the past several months,the production teams at Cell Press and Oxford Jouals have worked side by side to ensure a smooth transition of publishers for Molecular Plant.All of us at Molecular Plant are privileged to work with both publishers in our jouey to establish and develop this special joual.The professionalism and attention to detail of both publishers have left a lasting impression on all the editors.For Molecular Plant,the new partnership with Cell Press allows close interactions between our editorial team and colleagues of leading jouals with a more general content through the same publishing platform at Cell Press.The Molecular Plant team expects to lea from such interactions and further improve the quality of service to the plant biology community.Authors of Molecular Plant will benefit from a broad readership through the ScienceDirect portal.