Serving Our Science and Community Better

Journal of Systematics and Evolution (JSE) has just debuted with its first issue. While it continues the tradition of its predecessor, Acta Phytotaxonomica Sinica (APS), in publishing

Journal of Systematics and Evolution （JSE） has just debuted with its first issue. While it continues the tradition of its predecessor, Acta Phytotaxonomica Sinica （APS）, in publishing papers in taxonomy and systematics, it is also embracing new trends in evolutionary biology to include papers in molecular evolution, evolutionary genomics, evolutionary developmental biology, evolutionary ecology, biogeography, and other related fields. We sincerely hope that this expanded journal scope will serve our science and community better. This journal has a long and rich history, It was established in 1951 by consolidating four journals that were founded by early Chinese botanists and published intermittently from the 1920＇s until the late 1940＇s： Bulletin of the Fan Memorial Institute of Biology, Botanical Series; Contributions from the Institute of Botany, National Academy of Peiping; Botanical Bulletin of Academia Sinica; and Contributions from the Biological Laboratory of the Science Society of China, Botanical Series. The journal has witnessed the founding and development of modem botany, plant taxonomy, and plant evolutionary biology in China over the last century.