Molecular Plant Pathology On-Line

An international, peer-reviewed, on-line journal, edited and published by the British Society for Plant Pathology

Quality

• All contributions are subject to rigorous refereeing and editing
• Editing is the sole responsibility of BSPP (owners of "Plant Pathology")
• Articles therefore carry high value in publication lists

Speed

• All communications take place electronically
• Editors and referees undertake to respond quickly
• Publication is through the World Wide Web, so the time normally taken to print, bind and distribute (several months) is eliminated
• The target is 7 weeks from submission to publication

Convenience

• Accessible at the desk/bench, from any Web-connected machine
• On-screen browsing, including contents, abstracts, keywords, text
• Powerful search and retrieval facilities
• Interesting text can be printed for reading when convenient
• Text and graphics can be downloaded

Technical versatility

• Colour illustrations are encouraged
• Moving images and sound bites are welcome
• Extensive sequence data can be published and readily extracted for further analysis

Cost-effectiveness

• Costs are borne by BSPP as a service to plant pathology
• Occupies no shelf space, yet immediately accessible from the archive maintained by BSPP
• No subscription to pay

Publication commenced in November 1996 and at the end of January 1997 four high quality papers were accepted and published:

Volume "1996"

M J Gibbs, A Ziegler, D J Robinson, P M Waterhouse and J I Cooper. Carrot mottle mimic virus (CMoMV): A second umbravirus associated with carrot motley dwarf disease recognised by nucleic acid hybridisation. 1996/1111gibbs

G M Ballance, L Lamari, R Kowatsch and C C Bernier. Cloning, expression and occurrence of the gene encoding the ptr necrosis toxin from Pyrenophora tritici-repentis. 1996/ 1209ballance

Volume "1997"

M Fuchs, S Ferreira, D Gonsalves. Management of Virus Diseases by Classical and Engineered Protection. 1997/0116fuchs

S Ueda, I Uyeda. The rice dwarf phytoreovirus structural protein P7 possesses non-specific nucleic acids binding activity in vitro. 1997/0123ueda

Accessibility

MPPOL can be accessed with any web browser at: http://www.bspp.org.uk/mppol. Papers can be viewed either as title and abstract only, or as the full paper. Alternatively you may download the full paper including all grapics, figures and tables as a compressed zip file, or as a self- extracting compressed file which can then be viewed in any web browser off-line.

Citation

The recommended form of citation for a paper in Molecular Plant Pathology On-Line is:

S Ueda, I Uyeda. The rice dwarf phytoreovirus structural protein P7 possesses non-specific nucleic acids binding activity in vitro. Molecular Plant Pathology On-Line [http://www.bspp.org.uk/mppol]1997/0123ueda.

There are no volume or page numbers as such. Instead, quote the location within the journal as: 1996/1111gibbs. This unique location also indicates the date of publication by year (1997), month (01) and day (23), and the name of the first author (ueda).The URL of the journal need not be quoted, just as the publisher need not be quoted for a printed journal. However, to facilitate access, BSPP's recommendation is to add "[http://www.bspp.org.uk/mppol]" after "Molecular Plant Pathology On-Line".

We recommend this journal to you as a first choice for publishing your high quality molecular plant pathology papers. Please copy this article to your colleagues to promote this venture and ensure its continued success.

Dr Peter R Scott, Dr Debra Whitehead, Dr Adrian C Newton

MPPOL senior editors

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