Review of activities 2025

• In the calendar year 2025 the journal Annals of Botany appeared for the 139th year in unbroken succession. Seven issues within Volume 135 and seven within Volume 136 were published. The total number of edited pages in 2025 was 3,147 (2,346 in 2024).
• Two ‘Special Issues’ appeared in 2025 (two in 2024), dealing with ‘Plant Reproduction in a Changing Global Environment’ and ‘Stress Physiology of Root Systems’. In 2025, a total of 42 ‘Review’ articles appeared (19 in 2024); nine ‘Research in Context’ articles (two in 2024); no ‘Viewpoint’ was published (one in 2024) but 6 Perspective articles were published including one from the Editor. Twenty examples of ‘Commentary’ pieces discussing selected recent articles from the journal appeared in 2025 (11 in 2024).

• As usual, original research articles comprised the bulk of the journal, with 272 being published in 2025 (137 in 2024). The practice of including a different full colour illustration on the outside cover each month was continued. Publication of the journal remained in the hands of Oxford University Press. Total revenue in 2025 was £820,534 (£699,429 in 2024)
• AoB PLANTS, also published with Oxford University Press, maintained its high quality of production and level of service to authors. The journal published six issues within Volume 17. There was one Special Issue in 2025 ‘Floral Ecology, Genetics, and Evolution in an Unprecedentedly Fast-Changing World’ and a further ‘Emerging Voices in Botany’. There were 80 articles published across 991 pages (60 and 715, respectively in 2024) and the journal continued to levy Article Processing Charges, with 18 exemptions being awarded (18 in 2024). Total revenue in 2025 was £46,464 (£39,540 in 2024).
• The Company’s latest open access, online only journal, in silico Plants, appeared for its sixth complete year in 2025. It deals with all aspects of computational plant science and Oxford University Press is again the publisher. Volume 7 appeared 2025, over two issues, and contained 22 articles over 303 edited pages (15 and 256 in 2023). Six APC waivers were granted (three in 2024). Total revenue in 2025 was £31,822 (£21,214 in 2024).
  
• The online magazine BotanyOne continued to grow in variety and prestige. The electronic newsletter, The Week in Botany continues to be sent out weekly to plant scientists on a free subscription basis.