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Plant Pathology

Published on behalf of the British Society for Plant Pathology

Edited by:
Richard Shattock


ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2007: 5/49 (Agronomy); 38/152 (Plant Sciences)
Impact Factor: 2.012

This international journal, owned and edited by the British Society for Plant Pathology, covers all aspects of plant pathology and reaches subscribers in 80 countries. Top quality original research papers and critical reviews from around the world cover: diseases of temperate and tropical plants caused by fungi, bacteria, viruses, phytoplasmas and nematodes; physiological, biochemical, molecular, ecological, genetic and economic aspects of plant pathology; disease epidemiology and modelling; disease appraisal and crop loss assessment; and plant disease control and disease-related crop management.

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Online Manuscript Submission Now Available
You can now submit your manuscript to Plant Pathology online, with our new manuscript submission website. The online manuscript submission and review process promises to lead to faster submission to first decision times and greater simplicity for authors and reviewers. Submit your best manuscript to Plant Pathology.

For submission of New Disease Reports, please click here for scope and guidelines (submitted separately to British Society of Plant Pathology).

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All back issues of this journal are available online.  For further information on how to access these issues please visit our Librarian Site.

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) in conjunction with UNEP, the United Nations Environment Programme.

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.

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Free Articles Online

Resistance, epidemiology and sustainable management of Rhynchosporium secalis populations on barley
J. Zhan, B. D. L. Fitt, H. O. Pinnschmidt, S. J. P. Oxley and A. C. Newton

Indirect evidence for sexual reproduction in Cercospora beticola populations from sugar beet
M. Groenewald, C. C. Linde, J. Z. Groenewald and P. W. Crous

Detection and characterization of Streptomyces causing potato common scab in Western Europe
R. Flores-González and I. Velasco, F. Montes

Sensitive real-time PCR detection of Xanthomonas fragariae in strawberry plants
J. Vandroemme, S. Baeyen, J. Van Vaerenbergh, P. De Vos and M. Maes

Changes in fungicide sensitivity and relative species abundance in Oculimacula yallundae and O. acuformis populations (eyespot disease of cereals) in Western Europe
S. Parnell, C. A. Gilligan, J. A. Lucas, C. H. Bock and F. van den Bosch

Quantitative disease resistance assessment by real-time PCR using the Stagonospora nodorum-wheat pathosystem as a model
R. P. Oliver, K. Rybak, M. Shankar, R. Loughman, N. Harry, P. S. Solomon

Selection for reproductive ability in Globodera pallida populations in relation to quantitative resistance from Solanum vernei and S. tuberosum ssp. andigena CPC2802
M. S. Phillips, V. C. Blok

Effect of null mutations in the AbNIK1 gene on saprophytic and parasitic fitness of Alternaria brassicicola isolates highly resistant to dicarboximide fungicides
B. Iacomi-Vasilescu, N. Bataille-Simoneau, C. Campion, A. Dongo, E. Laurent, I. Serandat, B. Hamon, P. Simoneau

Quambalaria species associated with plantation and native eucalypts in Australia
G. S. Pegg, C. O'Dwyer, A. J. Carnegie, T. I. Burgess, M. J. Wingfield, A. Drenth

Strategies to prevent spread of Leptosphaeria maculans (phoma stem canker) onto oilseed rape crops in China; costs and benefits
B. D. L. Fitt, B. C. Hu, Z. Q. Li, S. Y. Liu, R. M. Lange, P. D. Kharbanda, M. H. Butterworth, R. P. White

A primer-introduced restriction analysis-PCR-based method to analyse Pepper mild mottle virus populations in plants and field soil with respect to virus mutations that break L3 gene-mediated resistance of Capsicum plants
M. Sakamoto, R. Tomita, H. Hamada, Y. Iwadate, I. Munemura, K. Kobayashi

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