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Molecular Plant Pathology

Published in association with the British Society for Plant Pathology

Edited by:
Gary D Foster

ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2007: 17/152 (Plant Sciences)
Impact Factor: 3.385

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Molecular Plant Pathology is published bi-monthly and welcomes submissions from all areas of molecular plant pathology including research on diseases caused by fungi, oomycetes, viruses, nematodes, bacteria, insects, parasitic plants and other organisms.

Molecular Plant Pathology is especially interested in manuscripts emphasizing molecular analyses of pathogens, determinants affecting host response to plant pathogens or the interaction of both. In addition to the principal content of full length and short research papers, Molecular Plant Pathology will also include technical advances, along with major and micro reviews on areas of particular interest and importance. The journal is dedicated to minimizing the time between submission, review and publication and to providing a high quality forum for original research in molecular plant pathology.

TopNews and Announcements

British Society for Plant Pathology -  Best Student Paper Prize
From 2007 a new award will be presented for the best 'student paper' published in Molecular Plant Pathology.

To be eligible for consideration the candidate must be the first author and the paper should be substantially the work of the first author carried out during their postgraduate studentship. Normally, papers are eligible for consideration if submitted up to 12 months after the candidate has been awarded their higher degree. An indication from the authors that the paper is eligible for consideration for this award should be indicated when the manuscript is submitted.

Criteria used to judge the best paper will be a combination of scholarship, impact and novelty. The final decision will be made by the Editor-in Chief of Molecular Plant Pathology.

The author of the best paper will be awarded a prize of £250, free membership to the British Society for Plant Pathology for two years, and an opportunity to attend the Society's annual Presidential conference.

New Series of Review articles for Molecular Plant Pathology
Molecular Plant Pathology has always been innovative in its use of Review articles, which are an important resource for research and teaching. We currently have three formats: Pathogen Profile, Review and MicroReview.

To add focus, we are now inviting Review articles in two specific areas:

1) Challenges for molecular plant pathology over the next ten years 
2) Plant diseases that changed the world

Reviews already offered in these areas include...

1) Challenges for molecular plant pathology over the next ten years

• Understanding virulence evolution, Fernando García-Arenal
• Global warming and the spread of plant viruses and their vectors, Miguel Aranda and Tomas Canto
• Towards the identification of plant and pathogen factors promoting disease development, Maria Elena Alvarez
• Horizontal gene transfer from plant pathogens to hosts, Clarence Kado
• Ecosystems and plant pathogens, Carolyn M. Malmstrom, Valerie Eviner, Ulrich Melcher and Abbie Schrotenboer
• Bursaphelenchus xylophilus: opportunities in comparative genomics and molecular host-parasite interactions
  John T. Jones, Taisei Kikuchi, Hongmei Li, Maurice Moens and Manuel Mota
• Negative Strand Plant Viruses: Prospectus and future research opportunities.
  Jennifer Brag, Uma Ganesan and Andrew O. Jackson
• Post-translational protein modifications in relation to plant defence responses and susceptibility, Iris Stulemeijer and Matthieu Joosten
• Comparative genomics inside the xanthomonas genera: new findings for pathogenicity understanding, Damien Meyer and Adam J. Bogdanove

2) Plant diseases that changed the world

• Citrus tristeza virus: a pathogen that changed the course of the citrus industry, Pedro Moreno
• Potato late blight - Phytophthora infestans, Bill Fry
• Ergot: from witchcraft to biotechnology, Paul Tudzynski
• Fire blight disease - Erwinia amylovora, Steve Beer
• Tobacco mosaic virus, Dennis Lewandowski
• Downy mildew of pearl millet (Sclerospora graminicola)
  A. Kumar, R.R. Bhansali and V.K. Manga

If you are interested in writing a Review in one of these areas please feel free to contact Diane Hird at the editorial office (diane.hird@bristol.ac.uk).

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Attention ASPB Members
Members of the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) can subscribe to the online version of Molecular Plant Pathology for just $36 in 2007! Simply select the relevant subscription rate and the complete the online form to subscribe.

Free access in the Developing World
Free online access to this journal is available within institutions in the developing world through the AGORA Initiative with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the OARE Initiative (Online Access to Research in the Environment) with the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).

Articles Published Online Ahead of Print
Articles which have been fully copy-edited and peer-reviewed are published online through our Early View feature before the print edition of this journal is published.

TopHighlights

Research Highlights from MPP
The following research articles have been selected by the editor of Molecular Plant Pathology as 'Research Highlights'. Download the articles for free by clicking on the title link:

Histochemical and genetic analysis of host and non-host interactions of Arabidopsis with three Botrytis species: an important role for cell death control
Peter van Baarlen, Ernst J. Woltering, Martijn Staats , Jan A. L. van Kan

Phytophthora sojae: root rot pathogen of soybean and model oomycete
Brett M. Tyler

Analyses of the secretomes of Erwinia amylovora and selected hrp mutants reveal novel type III secreted proteins and an effect of HrpJ on extracellular harpin levels
Riitta M. Nissinen, A. Jimmy Ytterberg, Adam J. Bogdanove, Klaas J. Van Wijk, Steven V. Beer SV

Sources of natural resistance to plant viruses: status and prospects
Andrew J. Maule, Carole Caranta and Margaret I. Boulton

Pathogen Profiles

'Pathogen Profile' articles are published in Molecular Plant Pathology regularly, with one or two in most issues. These articles were made free in every issue published until the end of 2004. From 2005, full access to these articles is only be available to subscribers and license holders. Click here to subscribe.

Listed below are all of the Pathogen Profile articles published in Molecular Plant Pathology in 2003 and 2004. To read Pathogen Profile articles published prior to 2003 go online for every issue of Molecular Plant Pathology, since its launch in 2000.

Heading for disaster: Fusarium graminearum on cereal crops
Rubella S Goswami, H Corby Kistler

Turnip yellow mosaic virus: transfer RNA mimicry, chloroplasts and a C-rich genome
Theo W Dreher
 
Claviceps purpurea: molecular aspects of a unique pathogenic lifestyle
Paul Tudzynski, Jan Scheffer

Gaeumannomyces graminis, the take-all fungus and its relatives
Jacqueline Freeman and Elaine Ward

Sugarbeet leaf spot disease (Cercospora beticola Sacc.)
John Weiland and Georg Koch

Black currant reversion virus, a mite-transmitted nepovirus
Petri Susi

Ustilago maydis, model system for analysis of the molecular basis of fungal pathogenicity
Christoph W Basse and Gero Steinberg

Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. citri: factors affecting successful eradication of citrus canker
James H. Graham, Tim R. Gottwald, Jaime Cubero and Diann S. Achor

Cotton leaf curl disease, a multicomponent begomovirus complex
Rob W Briddon

Molecular, ecological and evolutionary approaches to understanding Alternaria diseases of citrus
Kazuya Akimitsu, Tobin L Peever and LW Timmer

Root-knot nematode parasitism and host response: molecular basis of a sophisticated interaction
Pierre Abad, Bruno Favery, Marie-Noëlle Rosso and Philippe Castagnone-Sereno

Alternaria spp.: from general saprophyte to specific parasite
Bart PHJ Thomma

Turnip vein-clearing virus, from pathogen to host expression profile
Ulrich Melcher

Xanthomonas citri: breaking the surface
Asha M. Brunings and Dean W. Gabriel

Downy mildew of Arabidopsis thaliana caused by Hyaloperonospora parasitica (formerly Peronospora parasitica)
Alan J Slusarenko and Nikolaus L Schlaich

Potato leafroll virus: a classic pathogen shows some new tricks
Michael Taliansky, Mike A. Mayo and Hugh Barker

Beet yellows virus: the importance of being different
Valerian V Dolja

Alfalfa mosaic virus: coat protein-dependent initiation of infection
John F Bol

Tomato yellow leaf curl virus, the intracellular dynamics of a plant DNA virus
Yedidya Gafni

Soft rot erwiniae: from genes to genomes
Ian K Toth, Kenneth S Bell, Maria C Holeva, Paul RJ Birch

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