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Organise the manuscript as follows.

1. Title

   The title should be clear and self-explanatory, and should fit within three lines in print. Avoid abbreviations. Capitalise the first letter of each principal word.

2. Author(s)

   Give the full name of each author, without rank or title, and mark the corresponding author with an asterisk (*). Each affiliation should include the department or faculty, university or institute, city, state, country and postal (PIN) code. The e-mail address of the corresponding author is mandatory.

3. Abstract

   The abstract must not exceed 500 words. It should summarise the research methodology, findings and conclusions, and must not contain citations or unexplained abbreviations.

4. Keywords

   Keywords should be concise and distinctive, and no more than five.

5. Introduction

   The introduction should give the background and objective of the study and an overview of the manuscript.

6. Materials and Methods

   Describe the materials and methods in enough detail for the experiment to be reproduced. Use standard methodology and support it with references to standard protocols.

7. Results and Discussion

   Results and discussion may be written as one section or as two separate sections. Discuss the findings with relevant, supporting citations, and cite recent, relevant references in support of your results. Research data should be statistically analysed, with significance reported.

   Indicate in the text where each Table and Figure should appear, and do not present the same data in both a Table and a Figure.

   Citations in the text are given by the author's surname and the year of publication, for example Akhtar (2021) or Yadav R.S. and Agrawal M. (1995). For more than two authors, give the first author's surname followed by et al., for example Yadav et al. (1996). Numbered citations such as (1) or (2) are not accepted.

8. Tables and Figures

   Give each Table and Figure a caption and number them in sequence: Table-1, Table-2, Table-3 and so on, and Figure-1, Figure-2, Figure-3 and so on.

9. Acknowledgement

   Be specific: name the people who actually helped and the funding agencies that supported the work.

10. References

    A research article should have at least 15 references, all of them authentic and relevant. Write complete references in the following style:

    Agrawal, M. and S.B. Agrawal (1989). Phytomonitoring of air pollution around a thermal power plant. Atmos. Environ., 23: 763–769.

    Black, V.J. (1982). Effects of sulphur dioxide on physiological processes in plants. In: Effects of Gaseous Pollutants in Agriculture and Horticulture, M.H. Unsworth and D.P. Ormrod (eds.), Butterworths, London, 67–71.

11. Submission of Manuscripts

    Submit manuscripts by e-mail to plantarchivejournal@gmail.com. Multi-author submissions should also include the signed Conflict of Interest statements described on the Publication Ethics page.