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Molecular Plant Pathology is published 9 times a year and welcomes submissions from all areas of molecular plant pathology that advance our understanding of the molecular mechanisms of disease or disease management. This includes research on fungi, oomycetes, viruses, nematodes, bacteria, insects, parasitic plants and other organisms. Molecular Plant Pathology is especially interested in manuscripts emphasizing molecular analyses of pathogens, pathogen evolution, determinants affecting host response to plant pathogens or the interaction of both, spanning the host-microbe interaction spectrum from saprophytic to symbiotic interactions. Purely descriptive profiling studies, for example RNAseq or transcriptomics, are not encouraged. Manuscripts of this type should include functional studies and provide mechanistic or novel insights that advance our understanding. Manuscripts that fall outside the scope of the journal will be rejected.
In addition to the principal content of full length and short research papers, Molecular Plant Pathology publishes Technical Advances, Reviews and Microreviews, Pathogen Profiles and Opinion Pieces. 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.
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Editor in Chief
Ralph Dean
Center for Integrated Fungal Research,
Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology,
North Carolina State University,
Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
Tel: +1 919 513-0020
e-mail: Ralph_dean@ncsu.edu
Senior Editors
Miguel A. Aranda
Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) at CEBAS
Spain
email: m.aranda@cebas.csic.es
Gitta Coaker
University of California Davis
USA
email: glcoaker@ucdavis.edu
Nicole Donofrio
University of Delaware
USA
email: ndonof@udel.edu
Sébastien Duplessis
French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA)
France
email: sebastien.duplessis@inra.fr
Ralph Hückelhoven
Technical University of Munich
Germany
e-mail:  Hueckelhoven@wzw.tum.de
Robert Jackson
University of Reading
United Kingdom
e-mail: r.w.jackson@reading.ac.uk
Marie-Agnès Jacques
French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA)
France
e-mail: Marie-Agnes.Jacques@angers.inra.fr
John Jones
The James Hutton Institute
United Kingdom
e-mail: John.Jones@hutton.ac.uk
Thomas Kroj
French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA)
Montpellier, France
e-mail: thomas.kroj@inra.fr
Kristiina Mäkinen
University of Helsinki
Finland
e-mail: kristiina.makinen@helsinki.fi
Libo Shan
Texas A&M University
United States
email: lshan@tamu.edu
Michael Thon
University of Salamanca
Spain
e-mail: mthon@usal.es
Jeanmarie Verchot
Oklahoma State University
United States
e-mail: verchot.lubicz@okstate.edu
Yuanchao Wang
Nanjing Agricultural University
China
e-mail: wangyc@njau.edu.cn
Pathogen Profile Editor
Zonghua Wang
Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University
China
email: Zonghuaw@163.com
Assistant
Carol Jenner
e-mail: mpp@bspp.org.uk
Editorial Board
Peter Balint-Kurti, North Carolina State University, USA
Saul Burdman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Elizabeth Fontes, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Brazil
Isabelle Fudal, French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), France
Sylvie German-Retana, French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), France
Hui-Shan Guo, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Mehdi Kabbage, University of Wisconsin, USA
Yoji Kawano, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Japan
Taisei Kikuchi, University of Miyazaki, Japan
Mike Kolomiets, Texas A&M Univerisity, USA
Yasayuki Kubo, Kyoto Prefectural Univerisity, Japan
Juan José López-Moya, Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics, Spain
Emilia López Solanilla, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Attila Molnar, University of Edinburgh, UK
Stefanie Ranf, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Jeff Rollins, University of Florida, USA
Eugene Savenkov, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
Peter Solomon, Australian National University, Australia
Pietro Spanu, Imperial College London, UK
Lisa Vaillancourt, University of Kentucky, USA
Peter van Esse, The Sainsbury Laborartory, UK
Saskia van Wees, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Corina Vlot-Schuster, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany
Brett Williams, Queenlands University of Technology, Australia
Véronique Ziegler-Graf, University of Strasbourg, France