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Phytopathology®

Published by The American Phytopathological Society

Editor-in-Chief: Leonardo De La Fuente

ISSN: 0031-949X | e-ISSN: 1943-7684

For over 100 years Phytopathology® has been the premier international journal for publication of articles on fundamental research that advances understanding of the nature of plant diseases, the agents that cause them, their spread, the losses they cause, and measures used to control them. Articles are characterized by their novelty, innovativeness, and the hypothesis-driven nature of their research.


Volume 115, Number 4 / April 2025

REVIEW

April 2025
Harnessing the Power of Electrical Penetration Graph Technology to Understand Psyllid-Transmitted Fastidious Bacterial Diseases
  • Nabil Killiny and
  • Alberto Fereres
  • Pages:332–342
  • Date:24 April 2025

https://doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-11-24-0376-RVW

BACTERIOLOGY

April 2025
Pink-Pigmented Variant of Clavibacter michiganensis Expands Phenotypic Range of Tomato Bacterial Canker Pathogen
  • Malihe Haghverdi,
  • S. Mohsen Taghavi,
  • Sadegh Zarei,
  • Hamzeh Mafakheri,
  • Hamid Abachi,
  • Martial Briand,
  • Geraldine Taghouti,
  • Perrine Portier,
  • Marie-Agnes Jacques, and
  • Ebrahim Osdaghi
  • Pages:343–353
  • Date:23 April 2025

https://doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-07-24-0236-R

April 2025
Metagenomic Sequencing of Tomato Plants with Wilt Symptoms Allows for Strain-Level Pathogen Identification and Genome-Based Characterization
  • Sahar Abdelrazek,
  • Lina Rodriguez Salamanca, and
  • Boris A. Vinatzer
  • Pages:354–366
  • Date:25 April 2025

https://doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-09-24-0279-R

ECOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY

April 2025
Assessing Susceptibility of Grapevine Cultivars to Latent Plasmopara viticola Infections Using the Molecular Disease Index
  • Lujia Yang,
  • Bingyao Chu,
  • Jie Deng,
  • Zhaomeng Shen,
  • Qiuyu Sun,
  • Xuan Lv,
  • Jiasui Zhan, and
  • Zhanhong Ma
  • Pages:367–373
  • Date:24 April 2025

https://doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-10-23-0409-KC

FUNGAL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS

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April 2025
A Family of Transglutaminases Is Essential for the Development of Appressorium-Like Structures and Phytophthora infestans Virulence in Potato
  • Maja Brus-Szkalej,
  • Bradley Dotson,
  • Christian B. Andersen,
  • Ramesh R. Vetukuri, and
  • Laura J. Grenville-Briggs
  • Pages:374–386
  • Date:25 April 2025

https://doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-03-24-0107-R

GENETICS AND GENOMICS OF RESISTANCE

April 2025
A Sorghum BAK1/SERK4 Homolog Functions in Pathogen-Associated Molecular Patterns-Triggered Immunity and Cell Death in Response to Colletotrichum sublineola Infection
  • Saddie Vela,
  • Emily S. A. Wolf,
  • Mingxi Zhou,
  • Alyssa Davis,
  • Zhonglin Mou,
  • Hugo E. Cuevas, and
  • Wilfred Vermerris
  • Pages:387–400
  • Date:25 April 2025

https://doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-09-24-0283-R

NEMATOLOGY

April 2025
Influence of Sweetpotato Resistance on the Development of Meloidogyne enterolobii and M. incognita
  • David Galo,
  • Josielle Santos Rezende, and
  • Tristan T. Watson
  • Pages:401–409
  • Date:23 April 2025

https://doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-11-24-0365-R

April 2025
Research on Pine Wilt Disease Spread Prediction Based on an Improved Light Gradient Boosting Machine Model
  • Hongwei Zhou,
  • Siyan Zhang,
  • Yifan Chen,
  • Shibo Zhang,
  • Zihan Xu,
  • Di Cui, and
  • Wenhui Guo
  • Pages:410–421
  • Date:24 April 2025

https://doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-07-24-0202-R

TECHNIQUES

April 2025
Identification and Molecular Marker Detection of Leaf Rust Resistance Genes in Wheat Lines from China: Development of an Efficient Software for Gene Postulation
  • Pu Gao,
  • Peng-peng Liu,
  • Rui Dong,
  • Takele Weldu Gebrewahid,
  • Xin-hai Wang,
  • Xue-qing Wang,
  • Jia-yao Zhang,
  • Pei-pei Zhang,
  • Wei Sang, and
  • Zai-feng Li
  • Pages:422–430
  • Date:23 April 2025

https://doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-08-24-0249-R

VIROLOGY

April 2025
Origins and Distribution of Panicum Mosaic Virus and Sugarcane Mosaic Virus on Stenotaphrum secundatum in Australia
  • Nga T. Tran,
  • Ai Chin Teo,
  • Alistair R. McTaggart,
  • Paul R. Campbell,
  • Denis M. Persley,
  • John E. Thomas, and
  • Andrew D. W. Geering
  • Pages:431–440
  • Date:23 April 2025

https://doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-11-24-0363-R

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Vol. 115, No. 4
April 2025

ISSN:0031-949X
e-ISSN:1943-7684

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