Senior Editors

Editor-in-Chief Dr. Jens Stougaard, Laboratory of Gene Expression, Dept. of Molecular Biology, University of Aarhus, Gustav Wieds Vej 10, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark / Phone: +45.89425011 / Fax: +45.86201222 / E-mail: [email protected]

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

Associate Editors

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

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