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Senior Editors fungus–plant interactions plant–bacterial symbiosis insect–plant interactions JIM SWEIGARD MICHAEL UDVARDI LINDA WALLING DuPont Experimental Station Max Planck Institute of Molecular Department of & Plant Sciences, Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A. Plant Physiology University of California, Riverside, U.S.A. E-mail: [email protected] Golm, Germany E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] plant responses to pathogens molecular microbial ecology bacterial–plant symbiosis GUIDO V. BLOEMBERG Plant Pathogen Recognition OTTO GEIGER Institute of Biology, Leiden University MURRAY GRANT Centro de Investigacion sobre Clusius Laboratory Dept. of Agricultural Science Fijacion de Nitrogeno, UNAM Leiden, The Netherlands Imperial College London, Wye Campus Cuernavaca, Morelos, CP 62210, Mexico E-mail: [email protected] Ashford, U.K. E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] nematode–plant interactions Plant Defense Signaling virus determinants in virus–plant GODELIEVE GHEYSEN PAMELA RONALD interactions Department Molecular Biotechnology Department of Plant Pathology HERMAN B. SCHOLTHOF Faculty of Agricultural and Applied University of California, Davis, U.S.A. Department of Plant Pathology and Biological Sciences E-mail: [email protected] Ghent University, Belgium Model Pathosystems/Functional Genomics Texas A&M University E-mail: [email protected] PETER DODDS College Station, Texas, U.S.A. CSIRO Plant Industry E-mail: [email protected] mycorrhizal interactions Canberra, Australia MARTIN PARNISKE E-mail: [email protected] plant determinants in virus–plant Department of Biology I, interactions University of Munich (LMU), Germany bacterial pathogenesis S. P. DINESH-KUMAR E-mail: [email protected] FRANK WHITE Molecular Cellular & Developmental Biology Department of Plant Pathology Yale Univerisy, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A. oomycete–plant interactions Kansas State University, Manhattan, U.S.A. E-mail: [email protected] FRANCINE GOVERS E-mail: [email protected] Laboratory of Phytopathology Wageningen University, The Netherlands E-mail: [email protected]

Associate Editors J. Bakker, Wageningen University H. Kouchi, Natl. Institute of Agrobiological Sciences S. Perotto, Università degli Studi di Torino A. Becker, Universitaet Bielefeld Y. Kubo, Kyoto Prefectural University J. Salmeron, Syngenta Agribusiness Biotechnology N. Brewin, John Innes Centre K. Lambert, University of Illinois F. Sanchez, UNAM J. P. Carr, University of Cambridge G. Loake, University of Edinburgh K.-B. G. Scholthof, Texas A&M L. Ciuffetti, Oregon State University S. Lommel, North Carolina State University S. C. Somerville, Carnegie Institute of Washington J. N. Culver, University of Maryland I. M. López-Lara, UNAM K. Szczyglowski, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada T. Denny, University of Georgia E. Martínez-Romero, UNAM N. J. Talbot, University of Exeter K. Dobinson, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada B. Mauch-Mani, University of Neuchatel B. Thomma, Wangeningen University X. Dong, Duke University J. McDowell, Virginia Polytechnic Institute I. K. Toth, Scottish Crop Research Institute D. Expert, INRA-INAPG Y. Moënne-Loccoz, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 J. Van Kan, Wageningen University M. Gijzen, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada M. B. Mudgett, J. Verchot-Lubicz, Oklahoma State University S. E. Gold, University of Georgia P. Palukaitis, Scottish Crop Research Institute S. A. Whitham, Iowa State University S. S. Hirano, University of Wisconsin K. Pawlowski, Universität Göttingen N. D. Young, University of Minnesota E.-P. Journet,CNRS-INRA

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