Editorial board
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
Maria Isabella Prigigallo, 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
Nina Aboughanem, Ph.D, Mississippi State University, USA
Virology
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
Agustí-Brisach Carlos, Ph.D, Universidad de Cordoba, Spain
Applied plant pathology, biocontrol, Colletotrichum, diagnosis, etiology, fungal trunk pathogens, Verticillium wilts
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
Guillaume Bilodeau, Ph.D, Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), Ottawa, Canada
Regulatory research, Molecular detection, Oomycetes, Phytophthora, Verticillium, Forest pathology, Metagenomics
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
Drizou Fryni, Ph.D, Hellenic Agricultural Organization DEMETER: ELGO-DEMETRA, Greece
forest pathology, horticulture, Oomycetes, Phytophthora, plane stain canker, Rhizoctonia, urban and peri-urban ecosystems
Vladimiro Guarnaccia, Ph.D, University of Torino, Italy
Botryosphaeriaceae, citrus diseases, colletotrichum, esca disease, etiology, taxonomy
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
Huang Li, Ph.D, Nanjing Forestry University, China
Forestry pathology, Molecular plant-microbe interactions, Biological control, Mycology and Plant Nematology
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
Ilaria Martino, Ph.D, University of Torino, Italy
Colletotrichum, Fruit crops, Fungal plant pathogens, Fungal trunk diseases, Ornamentals
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
Agata Motyka-Pomagruk, Ph.D, University of Gdańsk, Poland
Phytopathology, bacteriology, plant protection, novel molecular diagnostic tools, epidemiology
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
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
Stefano Panno, Ph.D, University of Palermo, Italy
virology, molecular diagnosis, virus epidemiology, management of viral diseases, plant disease notes.
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
Sead Sabanadzovic, Ph.D., Mississippi State University, United States of America
ssRNA viruses, dsRNA viruses, grapevine
Irene Salotti Ph.D, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Italy
Botanical epidemiology, plant disease modeling, decision support systems for crop protection
Bruno Scanu, Ph.D, University of Sassari, Italy
Forest pathology, ecology of plant diseases, Phytophthoras, fungal systematics, plant disease notes
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
Pedro Talhinhas, Ph.D, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Micology; fungal plant diseases; Mediterranean crops; anthracnose; rust; aetiology
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