Peer review is an essential part in the publication process, ensuring that Plants maintains high quality standards for its published papers. In 2017, a total of 63 papers were published in the journal. Thanks to the cooperation of our reviewers, the median time to first decision was 20 days and the median time to publication was 48 days. The editors would like to express their sincere gratitude to the following reviewers for their time and dedication in 2017:
| Antonio, Amilcar L. | Kumagai, Etsushi |
| Aparicio, Pedro M | Kumar, Ashutosh |
| Artyszak, Arkadiusz | Kunst, Ljerka |
| Ates, Serkan | Latosińska, Jolanta |
| August-Schmidt, Elizabeth M. | Lee, Sang-Han |
| Bayer, Emmanuelle | Leone, Alessandro |
| Bazos, Ioannis | Li, Wanlong |
| Benedec, Daniela | Lidon, Fernando |
| Benitez-Alfonso, Yoselin | Lin, Ming-Kuem |
| Berhow, Mark | Liu, Chengwu |
| Black, Katherine A. | Lizamore, Darrell |
| Bobis, Otilia | Lopez-Moya, Federico |
| Börner, Andreas | Ma, Wu |
| Boss, Paul | Macnack, Natasha |
| Botta, Bruno | Marchetti, Marta |
| Božović, Mijat | Marchini, Cristina |
| Bravo, León | Marcovici, Geno |
| Broughton, Katrina J. | Martínez, Sidonia |
| Buchet, Rene | Martins, Maria Rosario |
| Burcul, Franko | Mathesius, Ulrike |
| Burkey, Kent O. | Mattei, Benedetta |
| Bussmann, Rainer W. | Mcewan, Ryan |
| Cádiz Gurrea, María De La Luz | Medina, Joaquín |
| Capasso, Raffaele | Melkonyan, Ani |
| Cardoso, Susana | Menand, Benoît |
| Caruso, Giuseppe | Menendez, Esther |
| Cazzato, Eugenio | Moriguchi, Takaya |
| Chaterjee, Amitava | Morkunas, Iwona |
| Chizzola, Remigius | Murata, Toshihiro |
| Cho, Tae-Ju | Nakagawa, Tsuyoshi |
| Christensen, Lars | Nawrath, Christiane |
| Contreras, María | Niemeyer, Emily D. |
| Ćosić, Jasenka | O’shaughnessy, Susan |
| Dapprich, Peter | Oshima, Yoshimi |
| De La Torre, Fernando | Palla, Franco |
| Debener, Thomas | Palmgreen, Michael G. |
| Del Giudice, Rita | Panday, Dinesh |
| Deligios, Paola A. | Parsonage, Derek |
| Diago, MP | Patra, Barunava |
| Domergue, Frederic | Pellegrini, Elisa |
| Domozych, David S. | Plummer, Sarah |
| Dosoky, Noura S. | Qualset, Calvin O |
| Driscoll, Don | Reed, Kevin |
| Duarte, Maria Cristina | Resende, Marcio FR |
| Dugé De Bernonville, Thomas | Restivo, Francesco Maria |
| Durazzo, Alessandra | Ribeiro-Barros, Ana I. |
| Eiroa, José Luis | Rivero, Rosa |
| El Babili, Fatiha | Salazar-Olivo, Luis |
| Elhanafi, Ahmad Omar | Saleem, Muhammad |
| Emani, Chandrakanth | Salehi-Ashtiani, Kourosh |
| Endresen, Dag | Salehin, Mohammad |
| Engelberth, Jurgen | Sarnowski, Tomasz |
| Espen, Luca | Sawicki, Rafal |
| Eudes, Aymerick | Schinkovitz, Andreas |
| Fernandez-Ondoño, Emilia | Schneitz, Kay |
| Freitas, Marisa | Schwarzkopf, Lin |
| Frew, Adam | Scognamiglio, Monica |
| Garcia, Lorena Carro | Scotti Campos, Paula |
| Geilfus, Christoph-Martin | Selim, Sameh |
| Germ, Mateja | Serrano, María |
| Giannakoula, Anastasia | Sgherri, Cristina |
| Giovannini, Annalisa | Shoeva, Olesya Yu |
| Gniewosz, Małgorzata | Shrestha, Krishna Kumar |
| Golubkina, Nadezda Aleksandrovna | Singh, Shardendu |
| González-Stuart, Armando | Singh-Cundy, Anu |
| Granada, Camille E. | Smiesko, Martin |
| Greene, Duane | Sobeh, Mansour |
| Greer, Mitchell | Spampinato, Claudia |
| Grossnickle, Steven C. | Speciale, Antonio |
| Gruber, Christian | Spies, Janine |
| Guinel, Frédérique C. | Sroka, Zbigniew |
| Gulati, Vandana | Stavolone, Livia |
| Gullón, Beatriz | Stout, Michael J. |
| Guy, Charles L. | Taira, Junsei |
| Hajimorad, Reza | Takeda, Seiji |
| Hammerschmidt, Ray | Tellez, Trinidad Ruíz |
| Hannapel, David J. | Thilmony, Roger |
| Hano, Christophe | Tirillini, Bruno |
| Hatzopoulos, Polydefkis | Tombesi, Sergio |
| Haughian, Sean R. | Torricelli, Renzo |
| Helariutta, Yrjö | Tsiani, Evangelia |
| Hildreth, Sherry | Tytła, Malwina |
| Hodson, Martin J | Uhde-Stone, Claudia |
| Högbom, Lars | Ulery, April |
| Holalu, Srinidhi | Vaknin, Yiftach |
| Horgan, Finbarr | Van Der Linden, Gerard |
| Hornyik, Csaba | Venäläinen, Salla |
| Inazumi, Shinya | Vialet-Chabrand, Silvere |
| Islam, M. Nurul | Voitsekhovskaja, Olga V. |
| Janssen, Dirk | Wang, Zhijun |
| Jaradat, Nidal | Wesolowski, Marek |
| Jarret, Robert L. | Wilson, Houston |
| Kacaniova, Miroslava | Wojtyla, Łukasz |
| Kasel, Sabine | Wu, Guangxi |
| Khatodia, Surender | Xu, Wenjia |
| Kieliszek, Marek | Yasir, Iqbal |
| Kikuzaki, Hiroe | Yeh, Ching-Hui |
| Knežević, Sanda Vladimir | Yu, Tien-Shin |
| Kosma, Dylan | Zhang, Hengyou |
| Kozaki, Akiko | Zhao, Meixia |
| Krishnan, Sanalkumar | Ziebell, Heiko |
| Kulus, Dariusz |