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EDITORIAL
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The past year has been an especially active one for the Annals of Botany and several notable enhancements to its publishing service have been brought successfully into operation. For example, authors of accepted manuscripts can now opt to have their papers made available online with Open Access as soon as they are published without a subscription barrier. Take-up of this option, available since January 2006, has been encouraging. This outcome reflects a growing recognition that the Open Access route