Editors' Note

PTC EDITORS' NOTE
 
Plant Tissue Culture and Biotechnology is the official organ of Bangladesh Association for Plant Tissue Culture & Biotechnology (BAPTC&B). The journal publishes original research papers and short communications on plant cell, tissue culture, plant biotechnology and related fields such as genomics, proteomics and bioinformatics etc. Each volume of the journal comprises two issues published in June and December every year. The manuscript should be type-written in double space with wide margins (left and top 3.81 cm, right and bottom 2.54 cm) on good quality, strictly 29.21 x 21.59 cm bond paper and should not exceed ten type-written pages. Preparation of the manuscript should conform strictly to the style and format of the journal available in the homepage of PTC&B (https://www.baptcb.org). Paper should be submitted in duplicate to the Chief Editor, Plant Tissue Culture and Biotechnology journal, c/o Department of Botany, University of Dhaka, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh by post or using the article submission link (https://baptcb.org/submit-article) or by email as a Microsoft Word document 2007 version (doc.) file and figures in JPEG file. All correspondence should be made through an email address: editor.ptcbj@gmail.com
 
 
Authors reporting results on commonly investigated materials such as banana, rice, ornamentals, oilseeds, wheat, jute etc. must clearly point out in the "Results and Discussion" section in what way their results are different from those published recently and what is new to literature/science that they are reporting in their articles.
 
The senior author is requested to check the obvious spellings and grammatical errors of the article in order to help the vetters to review the paper without unnecessary stress. 
 
The Publisher (Bangladesh Association for Plant Tissue Culture and Biotechnology) will bear the cost of up to TEN full type-written pages manuscript including two-full page plates with photographs in black and white. The author(s) will have to pay the cost of additional pages exceeding the limit.
 
PTC&B has been publishing review articles since 2000. The Editorial Board selects specialist(s) with considerable experience on a special area of tissue culture, plant biotechnology, molecular biology and related topics and invites them to write a review article. Ordinarily, unless invited review articles will not be entertained. The style and format will be the same as far as writing of abstract, introduction, reference, citation in the body of the text are concerned.
 
Contributors are given 10 copies of their reprints free of cost and should be collected from the journal office: Department of Botany, Universituy of Dhaka, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh. For additional reprints the author(s) will be charged at cost price and for this they must inform the Chief Editor in time of their desire to have extra copies of reprints after the acceptance of their papers for publication. For multicolor priniting the author should request the chief editor after the paper is accepted for publication and the author will have to pay the extra cost for colour printing.
 
Please also read Instruction to the author for manuscript preparation before submit any article.