About the Journal

Plant Varieties Studying and Protection is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal devoted to comprehensive coverage of issues of variety studying and crop variety science, combining fundamental research with practical aspects of the creation, propagation, cultivation, legal protection, and dissemination of new plant varieties.

The journal publishes original scientific articles, reviews, and short communications, ensuring the integration of knowledge and technologies for the formation, preservation, and improvement of global plant variety resources.

More details are available in the About the Journal section.

The journal was founded in 2005 in accordance with the Order of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine dated November 3, 2004 No. 816-r “On measures to implement Ukraine’s obligations under the International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants” (paragraph 8).

Founders of the journal

  • Ukrainian Institute for Plant Variety Examination
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Institute – National Centre for Seed and Cultivar Investigation of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine
  • Institute of Plant Physiology and Genetics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Publisher: Ukrainian Institute for Plant Variety Examination
(Certificate of entry of a publishing entity into the State Register of Publishers, Manufacturers and Distributors of Publishing Products: Series DK No. 5713 dated 19.10.2017).

 

Publisher ROR ID:
https://ror.org/047pqfg44

Funding sources

All organizational and financial expenses for publishing the journal are covered by the Ukrainian Institute for Plant Variety Examination.

Link to the journal on the publisher’s website

Plant Varieties Studying and Protection

State registration

Media identifier R30-01984
(decision of the National Council of Ukraine on Television and Radio Broadcasting No. 1577 dated 04.12.2023).

Publication identifiers

Linking ISSN / ISSN Print: 2518-1017
ISSN Online: 2518-7457

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21498/2518-1017

Abbreviated title : Plant Var. Stud. Prot.

Publication frequency: 4 issues per year (quarterly).

Languages of publication Ukrainian, English

Editor-in-Chief: Volodymyr Hudzenko

The Editorial Board of the scientific journal includes well-known Ukrainian and international scientists from Latvia, Spain, Hungary, and Poland.

Information about the full composition is available in the Editorial Team section.

The journal is included in Category B of the List of Scientific Professional Publications of Ukraine, in which the results of dissertation research for obtaining the degrees of Doctor of Sciences, Candidate of Sciences, and Doctor of Philosophy may be published in the fields of biological and agricultural sciences
(Order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine No. 975 dated 11.07.2019) in the following specialties:

  • 091 – Biology and Biochemistry
  • 201 – Agronomy

CLUSTER : Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences

Specialties:

Agronomy

Landscape Gardening

Agroengineering

Licensing conditions

All materials are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, which allows others to distribute the manuscript with acknowledgment of the authorship of the work and the first publication in this journal.

Open Access Policy

Plant Varieties Studying and Protection supports the principles of free dissemination of scientific information and global exchange of knowledge for the benefit of overall societal progress.

Therefore, all its content is available for free viewing by users without charge.

More detailed information is provided in the Open Access Policy section.

Full-text access to the journal’s scientific articles is available in the Archives section, as well as on the website of the V. I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine.

Vol. 21 No. 4 (2025)
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Published: 2025-12-29

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