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Molecular Plant Pathology is the leading new journal in the molecular biology of plant disease edited by the British Society for Plant Pathology and published by Blackwell Science. |
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MPP ISI Impact Factor After an initial ISI impact factor ® of 2.838, Molecular Plant Pathology now has an impact fator of 3.3. This now ranks the journal 15th in the list of all plant science journals. |
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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: 'Challenges for molecular plant pathology over the next ten years' and 'Plant diseases that changed the world'. Reviews already offered in these areas are listed below.
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
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).
- rapid acceptance to publication times
- expert and thorough refereeing
- your work available online
- no page charges and free offprints to authors
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, a special regular feature is Pathogen Profiles, providing readers with an up to-date overview on 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. This has now been enhanced with the Editorial Office launching Manuscript Central v3.3 for electronic submission and reviewing of manuscripts.
Journal information available
The new 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 Blackwells Molecular Plant Pathology website. Full contents of Molecular Plant Pathology are also available with some free articles available for download. You can subscribe to Synergy 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, University of Bristol, UK
email: mpp@bspp.org.uk
Senior Editors
James Alfano - USA
Ralph Dean - USA
Barbara Howlett - Australia
Sophien Kamoun - USA
Mary Beth Mudgett - USA
Thorsten Nuernberger - Germany
Ken Shirasu - Japan
Jari Valkonen - Finland
Jan van Kan – Netherlands
Olivier Voinnet - France
Pathogen Profiles Editor - Vitaly Citovsky - USA
Editorial Assistant:
Diane Hird, School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1UG, UK
Tel/Fax: + 44 0 117 929 4503
e-mail: diane.hird@bristol.ac.uk
Editorial Board members for 2006 - 2008
Maria Elena Alvarez - Argentina
Miguel A. Aranda - Spain
Dawn Arnold - UK
Andy Bailey - UK
Paul Birch - UK
Ulla Bonas - Germany
Thierry Candresse - France
Richard Cooper - UK
Eric Davis - USA
Antonio Di Pietro - Spain
Biao Ding -USA
Rudolf Eichenlaub - Germany
Mark L Farman - USA
Ricardo Flores - Spain
Clay Fuqua - USA
Yedidya Gafni - Israel
Walter Gassmann - USA
Mark Gijzen - Canada
Sarah Gurr -UK
Godelieve Gheysen - Belgium
Scott Gold - USA
Sheng Yang He - USA
Saskia Hogenhout - USA
Gregg Howe - USA
Andrew Jackson - USA
Sondra Lazarowitz - USA
Andrew Maule - UK
Jean-Pierre Métraux - Switzerland
Shigetou Namba - Japan
Richard Oliver - Australia
Ralph Panstruga - Germany
Shauna Somerville - USA
Bart Thomma - Netherlands
Renier van der Hoorn - Germany
Pablo Vera - Spain
Elisabeth Waigmann - Austria
Steve Whitham - USA
Tom Wolpert - USA
Cyril Zipfel - UK