Editorial ‐ May 2011: The new face of New Disease Reports

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Editorial-May 2011: The new face of New Disease Reports Independent of its sister BSPP journal Plant Pathology since January 2010, New Disease Reports (NDR) has continued to publish short reports on plant diseases that provide context-relevant information on new geographical occurrence, new hosts or new aspects of plant pathogenicity. Consequently, this online journal has undergone a radical transformation. Readers of this editorial will be aware that the new NDR website is still linked with and part of the wider British Society for Plant Pathology family (http://bspp.org.uk) but with output and presentation enhanced in many ways. The format of published reports has been expanded with longer text (maximum of ca. 520 words) and more references (maximum six) and space for additional key words (not in title). Tables of data are now permitted (within the allowance of a maximum of five Figures). Recently, output in portable document format (PDF) has been provided.

First Report of Phytoplasma Associated with Leaf Roll on Dhak (palas) in India

“…Phytoplasma causing diseases have been reported on pumpkin [5], stone fruit and orchids [6]. It has been revealed from the scanning of literature [7] that this is the first report on the association of Phytoplasma with leaf roll of B. monosperma in Maharashtra, India (Figure 1).…”