Plant Pathology is is an international journal owned and edited by the BSPP which covers all aspects of plant pathology and reaches subscribers in 80 countries. 

Journal information

50 years of Plant Pathology 
Key features Instructions for authors (Blackwells)
Contents of all issues (Blackwells) Editors and editorial board

Key features

Top quality original research papers and critical reviews from around the world cover: diseases of temperate and tropical plants caused by fungi, bacteria, viruses, mycoplasma-like organisms 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. The journal is published bimonthly by Blackwell Science.

Plant Pathology publishes research papers and critical reviews on all aspects of plant pathology. Letters to the editors are welcome when these comment on matters relevant to plant pathology. Reports of screening for pesticidal activity or cultivar resistance are not normally published. All material submitted for publication is reviewed by the editors who act on advice from referees.

Full contents of Plant Pathology are also available with some free articles available for download. You can sunscribe 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.

Senior Editor

Dr Richard Shattock
Senior Editor Plant Pathology, c/o School of Biological Sciences, University of Wales, Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2UW. Tel: 01248 370492; Fax: 01248 370731; e-mail: plantpath@lilyrose.plus.com.

Current Editorial Board

D Andrivon, Le Rheu, France TR Gordon, Davis, USA P Nicholson, Norwich, UK
MF Bateson, Brisbane, Australia S Gowen, Reading, UK PE Russell, Great Shelford, UK
R Beresford, Auckland, NZ GW Griffith, Aberystwyth, UK NW Schaad, Fort Detrick, USA
JKM Brown, Norwich, UK NJ Grunwald, Corvallis, USA JJ Smith, Egham, UK
S Chakraborty, St Lucia, Australia M Höfte, Gent, Belgium N Spence, York, UK
LR Cooke, Belfast, UK G Holmes, Raleigh, USA CC Steel, Wagga Wagga, Australia
RM Cooper, Bath, UK A Kvarnheden, Uppsala, Sweden M Stevens, Bury St Edmunds, UK
GR Dixon, Reading, UK A Lees, Dundee, UK SA Weller, York, UK
S Eden-Green, Larkfield, UK N McRoberts, Auchinchruive, UK C Wilson, New Town, Australia
BDL Fitt, Harpenden, UK JW Mansfield, Wye, UK MJ Wingfield, Pretoria, SA
G Forbes, Quito, Ecuador PR Mills, Wellesbourne, UK  
KS Gibb, Darwin, Australia S Moricca, Florence, Italy
P Gladders, Cambridge, UK AC Newton, Invergowrie, UK  

Previous Senior Editors of Plant Pathology

MAFF Editors
1952-1963 E C Large (plant pathologist)
1952-1969 A H Strickland (entomologist)
1963-1975 J J Baker (plant pathologist)
1969-1981 M Gratwick (entomologist)
1976-1981 D L Ebbels (plant pathologist)

BSPP Senior Editors
1982-1984 B E J Wheeler
1985-1989 P R Scott
1990-1994 M J Jeger
1995-2000 R Johnson


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