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Editors

Editor-in-Chief
Matteo Garbelotto, Prof., University of California, Berkeley, United States of America
E-mail: matteog@berkeley.edu

Managing Editor
Luisa Rubino, Ph.D., National Research Council, Bari, Italy
 

Steering Editorial Board
Rodrigo Almeida, Prof., University of California, Berkeley, United States of America
Clive Brasier, Prof., Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Leonardo De La Fuente, Prof., Auburn University, United States of America
Francine Govers, Prof., Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands
Maria Lodovica Gullino, Prof., University of Turin, Italy
Richard Hamelin, Prof., University of British Columbia, Canada
Jaap D. J Janse, Prof., Netherlands General Inspection Service, Netherlands
Steven Lindow, Prof., University of California, Berkeley, United States of America
Matteo Lorito, Prof., University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Herman Scholthof, Prof., Texas A&M University, United States of America
Giles E St J Hardy, Prof., Murdoch University, Australia 
Jan Stenlid, Prof., Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
Joan Webber, Prof., Forest Research, United Kingdom
Steven A. Whitham, Prof., Iowa State University, United States of America
Brenda Wingfield, Prof., University of Pretoria, South Africa
Mike Wingfield, Prof., University of Pretoria, South Africa

 
Senior Editors
Fred Asiegbu, Ph.D, University of Helsinki, Finland
fred.asiegbu@helsinki.fi
Host-pathogen interactions, genomics, transcriptomics, Forest pathology, Microbiology, fungal biology, biodiversity, fungal population biology

Santa Olga Cacciola, Ph.D, University of Catania, Italy
sacaccio@unict.it
Oomycetes, molecular diagnosis, soilborne fungal diseases, diversity of plant pathogens, trachemycoses, Plant Disease Notes

Thierry Candresse, Ph.D, National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment, France
thierry.candresse@inrae.fr
Plant virology, diagnostics, plant-virus interactions, viral metagenomics, viroid

Ana Cristina Coelho, Ph.D, University of Algarve, Portugal
acoelho@ualg.pt
Systemic immune response in plants, effector-triggered immunity, cork oak decline disease, oak-Phytophthora cinnamomi molecular  interaction, molecular markers in plant-pathogen interactions

Teresa A. Coutinho, Ph.D., University of Pretoria, South Africa
teresa.coutinho@up.ac.za
Phytobacteriology, plant health, plant quarantine,Erwinia, Ralstonia

Julio Javier Diez Casero, Ph.D, University of Valladolid, Spain
jdcasero@pvs.uva.es
Forest Pathology, Fungal diseases, Biological control, Metagenomic, Transcriptomic, Mycoviruses, Genetic control, Fusarium

Mukesh Dubey, Ph.D., Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
mukesh.dubey@slu.se
Mycology, Biological control

Khaled A El-Tarabily, Ph.D., United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates
ktarabily@uaeu.ac.ae
Biological Control and Diseases of vegetable crops

Marc Fuchs, Ph.D., Cornell University, United States of America
marc.fuchs@cornell.edu
Plant virology, virus-vector-host interactions, epidemiology, management, vegetable and fruit crops

Sarah Green, Ph.D., Forest Research, United Kingdom
sarah.green@ForestResearch.gov.uk
Forest Pathology, bacterial and fungal diseases, management of tree health, diagnosis, Pseudomonas syringae, Phytophthora, diagnostics, metabarcoding

Paolo Gonthier, Ph.D., University of Turin, Italy
paolo.gonthier@unito.it
Mycology, Forest pathology, epidemiology, fungi, population biology

John Hammond, Ph.D, Agricultural Research Service, United States of America
john.hammond@usda.gov
Plant virology, ornamental plants, Carlavirus, Potexvirus

Renaud Ioos, Ph.D, Anse Laboratoire de la Santé des Végétaux, France
renaud.ioos@anses.fr
Mycology, diagnostics, fungal taxonomy, epidemiology, monitoring, population genetics

Monika Kaluzna, Ph.D, Instytut Ogrodnictwa, Poland
monika.kaluzna@inhort.pl
Phytobacteriology

Cristina Marzachì, Ph.D., National Research Council, Italy
cristina.marzachi@ipsp.cnr.it
Phytoplasma diseases

Juan Antonio Navas-Cortés, Ph.D, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Spain
j.navas@csic.es
Climate change, epidemiology, olive, remote sensing, Verticillium wilt, Xylella fastidiosa

Matias Pasquali, Ph.D., University of Milan, Italy
matias.pasquali@gmail.com
Mycology, molecular biology, mycotoxins, plant pathology

Sabrina Sarrocco, Ph.D., University of Pisa, Italy
sabrina.sarrocco@unipi.it
Biocontrol, Colletotrichum, fungal ecology, fungal transformation, genome editing, Trichoderm

Associate Editors
Jaime Aguayo, Ph.D, Anse Laboratoire de la Santé des Végétaux, France
Emerging diseases, molecular biology-based methods, fungal genetics and genomics, new technologies (as high throughput sequencing and bioinformatics), epidemiology

Riccardo Baroncelli, Ph.D, University of Salamanca, Spain
Colletotrichum, fungal genetics, genomics, phylogenetic

Jolanta Behnke, Ph.D, University of Life Sciences in Poznań, Poland
Fungi biodiversity, forest phytopathology, endotrophs, phylogenetics, microfungal communities, alien species

Eduardo Bejarano, Ph.D, University of Malaga, Spain
Epigenetics, Geminivirus, plant-virus interactions, SUMOylation

Assunta Bertaccini, Ph.D, University of Bologna, Italy
Bacteriology, phytoplasma-associated diseases, plant-pathogen interactions, epidemiology, diagnostics, viral diseases

Marco Beyer, Ph.D, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg
Mycology, black rot in vine, Botrytis, Control of toxigenic Fusarium species, environmental microbiology, fungicide resistance, Fusarium mycotoxin formation, Fusarium species, Honey bees and crop protection

Davide Bulgarelli, Ph.D, University of Dundee, United Kingdom
Plant microbiome, plant genetics, molecular plant microbe-interactions, genomics and metagenomics, plant bacteriology

Giovanni Bubici, Ph.D., National Research Council, Italy
Mycology, biological control, soil-borne phytopathogens, soil microbiome, disease notes

Daniel Buchvaldt-Amby, Ph.D, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Mycology

Kadriye Caglayan, Ph.D, Mustafa Kemal University, Turkey
Plant virology

Michela Chiumenti, PhD, National Research Council, Italy
Viral metagenomics, Plant virology, High-throughput sequencing, Viroid, Transcriptomics

Richard Cobb, Ph.D., California State Polytechnic University, United States of America
Forest Pathology, ecosystem ecology, response to pathogen/parasite attacks, disease modeling

Fiona Constable, Ph.D, Government of Victoria, Australia 
Virology, phytoplasma

Gianni Della Rocca, Ph.D., National Research Council, Italy
Mycology, Biocontrol, Canker, Forest pathology, Resistance, Seiridium

Mark C Derbyshire, Ph.D., Curtin University, Australia 
Mycology, Genomics, Molecular Biology, Molecular Ecology, Plant breeding, Statistics

Aviv Dombrovsky, Ph.D, Agricultural Research Organization, Israel
Virology

Adrian Fox, Ph.D, Fera Science (United Kingdom), United Kingdom
Plant Virology, diagnostics, virus, viroid, virus epidemiology

Miroslav Glasa, Ph.D, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
Plant virology, detection, diversity, epidemiology

Scott Harper, Ph.D., Washington State University, United States of America
Phytoplasmology, Virology

Qi Huang, Ph.D., U. S. National Arboretum, United States of America
Ralstonia solanacearum, Xylella fastidiosa  

Kook-Hyung Kim, Ph.D., Seoul National University, South Korea
Plant virology, mycoviruses, virus-host interactions

Youssef Khamis, Ph.D., Agricultural Research Center, Egypt
Biocontrol, fruit diseases, postharvest pathology

Björn Krenz, Ph.D, Leibniz Institute DSMZ – German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Germany
Virology

Federico La Spada, Ph.D, University of Catania, Italy
Molecular diagnosis, omycetes, plant diseases by fungi and oomytes, metabarcoding, biological control, plant-fungi-oomycetes interactions

Guglielmo Lione, Ph.D, University of Turin, Italy
Ecology, modelling, epidemiology, diseases of forest and urban trees

Nicola Luchi, Ph.D, National Research Council, Italy
Mycology, diagnosis, pathogenic fungi

Varvara Maliogka, Ph.D, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Virology

Gelsomina Manganiello, Ph.D. University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Micology

Hans Maree, Ph.D, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Plant Virology

Jorge Martín-García, Ph.D, University of Valladolid, Spain
Forest Pathology, alien invasive pathogens, foliar and stem pathogens, biological control, fungal diversity, plant protection strategies, transcriptomic analysis  

Dimitre Mollov, Ph.D., National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, United States of America
High-Throughput Sequencing, diagnostics, epidemiology, virus detection/discovery and characterization, disease causation – and multiple virus groups including Potyviridae, Caulimoviridae, Tombusviridae, Tymoviridae, Alpha/Betaflexiviridae, Teniuviruses, Rhabdoviridae, Luteoviridae, and Emaravirus among other

Martin Mullett, Ph.D., Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic
Forestry, foliar diseases, fungal diseases, population biology end genetics, molecular diagnostic

Beatriz Navarro, Ph.D., National Research Council, Italy
Viroids, plant virus, viral metagenomics, plant virus/viroid interaction, molecular biology of plant viruses and viroids

Milan Navratil, Ph.D, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Phytoplasmas, plant viruses

Claire Neema, Ph.D, Montpellier SupAgro, France
Mycology

Emanuela Noris, Ph.D, National Research Council, Italy
DNA viruses, geminiviruses, plant-virus interaction

Olivia Palau Jonas, Ph.D., University of Leida, Spain
Forest pathology, root rot pathogens, ecology, epidemiology, invasive forest pathogens, biocontrol, spore trapping, metagenomics

Antonio Olmos, Ph.D, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias, Spain
Next Generation Sequencing (NGS), Real-time PCR, grapevine and fruit tree viruses

Annalisa Polverari, Ph.D, University of Verona, Italy
Host-pathogen interactions, molecular mechanism of plant disease resistance, pathogen perception and signal transduction, transcriptomics of plant disease resistance, functional genomics in plant disease resistance, resistance mechanisms in grapevine

Alessandro Passera, Ph.D, University of Milan, Italy
Bacterial biocontrol agents, Phytoplasma-associated diseases, Plant-pathogen interaction, Microbiota analyses

Antonio Prodi, Ph.D., University of Bologna, Italy
Micology, Cereals, Fusarium, Mycotoxins

Elvira Margarita Recuenco, Ph.D, Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria, Spain
Fungal diseases, forests, epidemiology, ecology, genetics, breeding, adaptation  

Massimo Reverberi, Ph.D, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Mycology, bioinformatics, lipidomic, mycotoxin, natural products

Vittorio Rossi, Ph.D, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Italy
Botanical epidemiology, plant disease modeling, decision support systems for crop protection

Sead Sabanadzovic, Ph.D., Mississippi State University, United States of America
ssRNA viruses, dsRNA viruses, grapevine

Bruno Scanu, Ph.D, University of Sassari, Italy
Forest pathology, ecology of plant diseases, Phytophthoras, fungal systematics, plant disease notes

Marco Scortichini, Ph.D., Council for Agricultural Research and Agricultural Economy Analysis, Italy
Plant pathogenic bacteria, bacterial taxonomy, population structure

Luca Sella, Ph.D., University of Padua, Italy
Fungal plant pathogens, Virulence factors, Fungal transformation, Cell wall degrading enzymes, Molecular defense mechanisms of plants

Martina Seruga Music, Ph.D, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Phytoplasmology, Bacteriology, Virology

Fabiano Sillo, Ph.D., National Research Council, Italy
Genomics, transcriptomics, fungal biotechnology, population genetics, plant pathogen interactions

Laura Sims, Ph.D., Louisiana Tech University, United States of America
Phytophthora diseases, forest pathology

Maria Socorro Serrano, Ph.D, University of Seville, Spain
Phytophthora, plant disease notes, disease epidemiology, root diseases

Frédéric Suffert, Ph.D, National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment, France
Mycology, epidemiology, wheat diseases

Hui Sun, Ph.D., Nanjing Forestry University, China
Microbiome, metagenomics, Forest Pathology, Mycology

Anna Maria Vaira, Ph.D, National Research Council , Italy
Plant virology, plant-virus interaction, new plant virus characterization

Anna Maria Vettraino, Ph.D, Tuscia University, Italy
Biological control, Phytophthora, population genetics

Tapani Yli-Mattila, Ph.D, University of Turku, Finland
Mycology, Fusarium, molecular biology, mycotoxins

 

 

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