Molecular Plant Pathology

Molecular Plant Pathology is the journal of the British Society for Plant Pathology, published by John Wiley & Sons, founded in 2000 and fully open access since January 2019, covering the molecular mechanisms of plant disease and disease management, with a 2025 journal impact factor of 5.0《Molecular Plant Pathology》是英国植物病理学会的会刊，由约翰威立出版，2000 年创刊，并自 2019 年一月起完全开放获取，聚焦植物病害的分子机制与病害管理，2025 年期刊影响因子为 5.0。

Scope

• It publishes research that advances understanding of the molecular mechanisms of disease and disease management刊载推进对病害分子机制与病害管理理解的研究。
• Its research includes fungi, oomycetes, viruses, nematodes, bacteria, insects, parasitic plants and other organisms其研究涵盖真菌、卵菌、病毒、线虫、细菌、昆虫、寄生植物及其它致病生物。
• It covers molecular analyses of pathogens, pathogen evolution, and host responses to plant pathogens覆盖病原物的分子分析、病原演化与宿主对植物病原的应答。
• It also covers the interaction of pathogens, the environment and host plants, spanning the spectrum between saprotrophic and mutualistic interactions亦覆盖病原、环境与宿主植物的相互作用，横跨腐生与互生相互作用的谱系。
• Purely descriptive omics analyses such as RNA-Seq or transcriptomics are not accepted unless they include functional studies不收纯描述性组学分析，如 RNA-Seq 或转录组学，除非含有功能研究。
• It accepts full-length research papers, short research papers, Technical Advances, Reviews and Microreviews, Pathogen Profiles and Opinion Pieces接收完整研究论文、短研究论文、技术进展、综述与微综述、病原物档案与观点文。

History

• It was founded in 2000, with a call for papers in 1999 and the first issues published in 2000 as volume 1该刊 2000 年创刊，1999 年发出征稿启事，首批期号于 2000 年作为第一卷出版。
• It grew from the embryo of Molecular Plant Pathology On-Line, an innovative free-to-publish and open access online-only journal launched by the society in the late 1990s它脱胎于《Molecular Plant Pathology On-Line》，这是学会于 1990 年代末创办的免费发布、开放获取的网络期刊。
• The society therefore decided, with Wiley-Blackwell, to launch a brand new journal with both paper and online copy based on the MPPOL concept因此学会与威立-布莱克韦尔决定，基于该网络刊的理念，创办一份纸版与线上并行的全新期刊。
• The inaugural Editor-in-Chief was Gary D. Foster of the University of Bristol, who edited the journal from 2000 to 2012首任主编为英国布里斯托大学的 Gary D. Foster，他自 2000 年至 2012 年任该职。^[1]
• It has had no name change and is jointly published by the British Society for Plant Pathology and John Wiley & Sons Ltd, with Blackwell Publishing merged into Wiley in 2007该刊无更名，由英国植物病理学会与约翰威立国际出版公司联合出版，布莱克韦尔出版公司于 2007 年并入威立。
• It became fully open access in January 2019, is published online only with no print version and twelve issues a year in continuous publication, and its 2025 journal impact factor is 5.0 with a CiteScore of 9.2该刊自 2019 年一月起完全开放获取，仅线上出版而无印刷版，每年十二期并采用连续出版，2025 年期刊影响因子为 5.0，CiteScore 为 9.2。

Editors

• The Editor-in-Chief is Prof. Ralph Dean of the Center for Integrated Fungal Research in the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology at North Carolina State University in the United States现任主编为 Ralph Dean 教授，供职于美国北卡罗来纳州立大学昆虫学与植物病理学系综合真菌研究中心。
• His field is the genomics of fungi, especially plant pathogenic fungi, and the molecular mechanisms of pathogenicity其方向为真菌、尤其植物病原真菌的基因组学与致病分子机制。
• The editorial assistant is Carol Jenner, and the editorial office is run by the British Society for Plant Pathology in the United Kingdom while the Editor-in-Chief is based in the United States编辑部助理为 Carol Jenner，编务由英国植物病理学会在英国负责，而主编在美国。
• The journal relies on expert and thorough refereeing, and Opinion Pieces require a brief outline submitted to the Editor-in-Chief in advance该刊依靠专家而严谨的评审，观点文须事先向主编提交简要纲要。
• It runs a Pathogen Profiles section and a Best Student Paper Prize该刊设病原物档案专题栏与最佳学生论文奖。
• It uses continuous publication to minimise the time between submission, review and publication, and all articles are deposited in PubMed Central该刊采用连续出版以缩短投稿、评审与出版之间的时间，全部文章存入 PubMed Central。