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Molecular Plant Pathology Special Issue On Pathogen Effector Proteins

Special Issue On Pathogen Effector Proteins: MPP 10:6 November 2009
This issue is free to download for a limited period

2009 celebrates the 25th anniversary of the cloning of a type III effector gene from a phytopathogenic bacterium, by Staskawicz, Dahlbeck and Keen (1). In recognition of this discovery, the November issue of Molecular Plant Pathology (MPP 10:6) is a special issue focusing on secreted effectors from diverse plant pathogens, guest edited by Paul Birch, Robert Jackson and Mary Beth Mudgett. This issue provides historical overviews, discusses the significant advances made in elucidating effector function and provides an outlook for future developments in this area of intensive research.

There are review articles from leaders in the field and related original research articles.

Review articles:

• Brian Staskawicz: First insights to the genes that control bacterial-plant interactions
• John Mansfield: From bacterial avirulence genes to effector functions via the hrp delivery system: an overview of 25 years of progress in our understanding of plant innate immunity
• Sebastian Schornack, Edgar Huitema, Liliana M. Cano, Tolga O. Bozkurt, Ricardo Oliva, Mireille van Damme, Simon Schwizer, Sylvain Raffaele, Angela Chaparro-Garcia, Rhys Farrer, Maria Eugenia Segretin, Jorunn Bos, Brian J. Haas, Michael C. Zod2, Chad Nusbaum, Joe Win, Marco Thines and Sophien Kamoun: Ten things to know about oomycete effectors
• Pierre J.G.M. de Wit, Rahim Mehrabi, Harrold A. van den Burg and Ioannis Stergiopoulos: Fungal effector proteins: past, presence and future
• Frank F. White, Neha Potnis, Jeffrey B. Jones and Ralf Koebnik: The Type III effectors of Xanthomonas
• Magdalen Lindeberg, Sébastien Cunnac, and Alan Collmer: The evolution of Pseudomonas syringae host specificity and type III effector repertoires
• Kathy R. Munkvold and Gregory B. Martin: Advances in experimental methods for elucidating Pseudomonas syringae effector function with a focus on AvrPtoB
• James R. Alfano: Roadmap for future research on plant pathogen effectors

1) Staskawicz, B.J., Dahlbeck, D. and Keen, N.T. (1984) Cloned avirulence gene of Pseudomonas syringae pv. glycinea determines race-specific incompatibility on Glycine max (L.) Merr. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA, 81, 6024-6028.

MPP Review articles in 2010

Throughout 2010 Molecular Plant Pathology will be publishing a series of Review articles based on presentations at the highly successful 2009 BSPP Presidential Meeting 'Darwin to Disease: Crops and their Pathogens’.

The first of these ‘The arms race between tomato and Fusarium oxysporum’ by Frank Takken and Martijn Rep has now appeared in the March issue, MPP 11:2

Forthcoming items include Reviews by Paul Birch, Peter Dodds, Gero Steinberg, Jurriaan Ton and Ian Toth.

MPP ISI Impact Factor Molecular Plant Pathology ISI Impact Factor® 2009 : 3.455 Ranking: 19/172 (Plant Sciences)

Key features of MPP

• MPP will move to 9 issues per year in 2011
• rapid acceptance to publication times
• expert and thorough refereeing
• your work is available online
• no page charges and free PDF offprints to authors
• low colour print charges

Over the last decade there has been a revolution in molecular plant pathology. This revolution has injected tremendous excitement into the field and has attracted many new investigators from very different disciplines, which have expanded the field, enriched it intellectually, and sharply increased its dynamism and importance.

Molecular Plant Pathology aims to provide a focus for this revolution. It accepts only the most innovative, original and rigorous research in the field for publication. A glance at the full contents list will show that we have succeeded in our aim.

Molecular Plant Pathology 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. The journal 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, there are review articles and a special regular feature: Pathogen Profiles. These provide readers with an up to-date overview of the latest research on a particular pathogen. 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. Manuscript submission and peer review is handled online http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mpp

Journal information available

Pathogen Profile summaries and images are available here at BSPPWeb and the articles themselves are available to download for free in pdf format from the Wiley-Blackwell Molecular Plant Pathology website. Full contents of Molecular Plant Pathology are also available with some free articles available for download. You can subscribe to Interscience to read the abstracts or full articles, and to register to receive e-mail Table of Contents alerts as each new issue is published.

Editor in Chief: Gary D. Foster

School of Biological Sciences,

University of Bristol,
Bristol, BS8 1UG, UK
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