Celebrating 75 years of the Journal of Experimental Botany (1950–2025)

Since its foundation in 1950, the Journal of Experimental Botany (JXB) has been publishing articles at the forefront of plant science for 75 years. To celebrate this significant milestone in the journal’s history, we commissioned a special series of our flagship Darwin Reviews from leading plant scientists to take a snapshot of plant science today, across a broad range of topics. The reviews range from the molecular and cellular levels of metabolism and signalling (Kopriva et al., 2024; Smirnoff and Wheeler, 2024; Witte and Herde, 2024; Fuertes-Rabanal et al., 2025; John et al., 2025) to the organ and whole-plant levels of growth and development (Mody et al., 2025; Pandey et al., 2025). With world agriculture facing the dual challenges of feeding a growing population and global climate change, there is a particular focus on crop species and strategies for improving resilience to abiotic and biotic stresses (Jaryal et al., 2025; Munzert and Engelsdorf, 2025; Prado et al., 2025) and optimising growth and development (Robil et al., 2025), as well as the potential for diversification into new crop species (Phillips et al., 2025).