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Plant Pathology

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

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Latest News

BSPP Board Member Opportunities 2027

3rd August 2026

Digital Threat Forecast: How Algorithms Reveal the Expansion Plans of Forest Pathogens

30th June 2026

Nominations for BSPP Honorary Membership 2027

3rd June 2026

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Upcoming Conferences

SAVE THE DATE: PPATH27 and ECPP27

September 7, 2027 - September 9, 2027

TBC

IJPB Symposium 2026

September 23, 2026 - September 25, 2026

Versailles, France

International SPS Symposium 2026

October 14, 2026 - October 16, 2026

Versailles, France

International Congress of Plant Pathology 2028

August 19, 2028 - August 25, 2028

Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

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ISI Impact Factor

Edited By: Dr Dilantha Fernando

Impact factor: 2.772 (2021)
24/90 (Agronomy), 91/239 (Plant Sciences)
Online ISSN:1365-3059

© BSPP and John Wiley & Sons Ltd

Journal page on Wiley:
https://bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/13653059

Click the link above to find out more about the journal including the ‘Authors Guidelines’

Each year Plant Pathology awards a Best student paper prize

To commemorate 50 years of the journal Plant Pathology, the following online article was written by Dr Nigel Hardwick

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Journal information

Plant Pathology publishes research papers and critical reviews on all aspects of plant pathology. Letters to the Editor 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.

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. The journal is published bimonthly by Wiley & Sons.

Full contents of Plant Pathology are also available with some free articles available for download. You can subscribe to Wiley 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 Dilantha Fernando
Dean of Studies
Room 211, St. Paul’s College
204-474-8577

E-mail: plantpath@bspp.org.uk

For details of the full current editorial board, click here

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

2001-2010 R Shattock

2011-2022 M Dickinson

Latest Publications in Plant Pathology

Click here to read the most recent papers in Plant Pathology

New Disease Report

NDR

New Disease Reports is now published by Wiley & Sons LTD. See the latest articles here

9th September 2026

Latest Publications in Plant Pathology

Increased abundance of patatins, lipoxygenase and miraculins in a thaxtomin Ahabituated potato Russet Burbank somaclone with enhanced resistance to common scab

Sugarcane mild mosaic virus: The rediscovery of an identified but unrecognized virus

Response of rice genotypes to rice rootknot nematode (Meloidogyne graminicola) infection under varying temperature regimes

Latest Publications in Molecular Plant Pathology

A Phytophthora capsici RXLR effector manipulates plant immunity by targeting RAB proteins and disturbing the protein trafficking pathway

The northern corn leaf blight resistance gene Ht1 encodes an nucleotidebinding, leucinerich repeat immune receptor

Transcriptional regulator Sar regulates the multiple secretion systems in Xanthomonas oryzae

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