Journal of Plant Development publishes fully open access articles, which means that all articles are available on the internet to all users immediately upon publication.

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Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.

This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.