該雜志出版原始文章，短和技術筆記和評論文章在所有領域的植物學，和土壤或陸生和水生植物的生物學。征求關于植物學、土壤或植物生物學的任何方面的描述性、歷史性和實驗性研究以及在生物體、人口、社區、生態系統和景觀的規模方面的報告結果的手稿，以及關于生態理論的手稿。國際實驗植物學雜志Phyton也在該雜志上發表研討會論文集、論文和對近期論文的評論。自2015年12月1日起，只接受英文原創文章發表。

This Journal publishes original articles, short and technical notes and review articles in all fields of botany, and the biology of soils or terrestrial and aquatic plants. Manuscripts reporting results of descriptive, historical and experimental studies on any aspect of botany, and soil or plant biology, and at the scale of organism, population, community, ecosystem and landscape are solicited, as well as manuscripts on ecological theory.Phyton, International Journal of Experimental Botany also publishes Symposium proceedings, thesis and comments on recent papers in the journal. As from 1 December 2015 only original articles written in English will be accepted for publication consideration.