1. New editorial office

   • Hisashi Iwai

   Editorial 21 November 2013 Pages: 1 - 1

2. Threats to Japanese agriculture from newly emerged plant viruses and viroids

   • Shinya Tsuda
   • Teruo Sano

   REVIEW FOR THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY 03 September 2013 Pages: 2 - 14

   

3. Virulence factors of Botrytis cinerea

   • Masami Nakajima
   • Katsumi Akutsu

   REVIEW FOR THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY 10 October 2013 Pages: 15 - 23

4. Phytophthora infestans: a review of past and current studies on potato late blight

   • Seishi Akino
   • Daigo Takemoto
   • Kazuyoshi Hosaka

   REVIEW FOR THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY 18 October 2013 Pages: 24 - 37

   

5. Defense induced by a bis-aryl methanone compound leads to resistance in potato against Phytophthora infestans

   • Mohammad Shahjahan Monjil
   • Daigo Takemoto
   • Kazuhito Kawakita

   Host Responses Open access 18 October 2013 Pages: 38 - 49

   

6. Survival of strawberry-pathogenic fungi Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. fragariae, Phytophthora cactorum and Verticillium dahliae under anaerobic conditions

   • Yoshiyuki Ebihara
   • Seiji Uematsu

   Fungal Diseases 06 September 2013 Pages: 50 - 58

   

7. Genetic analysis of host–pathogen incompatibility between Lolium isolates of Pyricularia oryzae and wheat

   • Trinh Thi Phuong Vy
   • Gang-Su Hyon
   • Yukio Tosa

   Fungal Diseases 03 September 2013 Pages: 59 - 65

   

8. Various species of Pyricularia constitute a robust clade distinct from Magnaporthe salvinii and its relatives in Magnaporthaceae

   • Nobuaki Murata
   • Takayuki Aoki
   • Izumi Chuma

   Fungal Diseases Open access 04 September 2013 Pages: 66 - 72

   

9. Anthracnose of sweet pepper caused by Colletotrichum scovillei in Japan

   • Takeshi Kanto
   • Seiji Uematsu
   • Toyozo Sato

   Fungal Diseases 17 October 2013 Pages: 73 - 78

   

10. Involvement of HLK effectors in Ralstonia solanacearum disease development in tomato

    • Li Chen
    • Masatoshi Shirota
    • Kouhei Ohnishi

    Bacterial and Phytoplasma Diseases 28 September 2013 Pages: 79 - 84

    

11. A PCR-based assay for differentiating A- and A*-type strains of Xanthomonas citri subsp. citri, the causal agent of Asiatic citrus canker

    • Fatemeh Yousefi Koupaei
    • S. Mohsen Taghavi
    • Shinji Tsuyumu

    Bacterial and Phytoplasma Diseases 08 October 2013 Pages: 85 - 89

    

12. First report of Moroccan pepper virus on lisianthus (Eustoma grandiflorum) in Japan

    • Takehiro Ohki
    • Hiroshi Kajihara
    • Tetsuo Maoka

    Disease Note 17 September 2013 Pages: 90 - 93

    

13. Identification of Rhizoctonia solani AG1-IB as a causal agent of leaf blight in Cynanchum paniculatum in China

    • Ai Xin Liu
    • Zhe Li
    • Xiao Ping Zhu

    Disease Note 29 September 2013 Pages: 94 - 98

    

14. Brown root rot of Russell prairie gentian caused by Subplenodomus drobnjacensis

    • Toru Kondo
    • Mamoru Satou
    • Yoshiaki Chikuo

    Disease Note 15 September 2013 Pages: 99 - 102

    

15. Bacterial leaf blight of sweet pepper (Capsicum annuum) caused by Pseudomonas cichorii in Japan

    • Rie Gappa-Adachi
    • Yasuaki Morita
    • Shigeharu Takeuchi

    Disease Note 08 October 2013 Pages: 103 - 107