The Official Journal of the International Association for the Plant Protection Sciences

The Editors of Crop Protection especially welcome papers describing an interdisciplinary approach showing how different control strategies can be integrated into practical pest management programs, covering high and low input agricultural systems worldwide. Crop Protection particularly emphasizes the practical aspects of control in the field and for protected crops, and includes work which may lead in the near future to more effective control. The journal does not duplicate the many existing excellent biological science journals, which deal mainly with the more fundamental aspects of plant pathology, applied zoology and weed science. Crop Protection covers all practical aspects of pest, disease and weed control, including the following topics:
Abiotic damage
Agronomic control methods
Assessment of pest and disease damage
Molecular methods for the detection and assessment of pests and diseases
Biological control
Biorational pesticides
Control of animal pests of world crops
Control of diseases of crop plants caused by microorganisms
Control of weeds and integrated management
Economic considerations
Effects of plant growth regulators
Environmental benefits of reduced pesticide use
Environmental effects of pesticides
Epidemiology of pests and diseases in relation to control
GM Crops, and genetic engineering applications
Importance and control of postharvest crop losses
Integrated control
Interrelationships and compatibility among different control strategies
Invasive species as they relate to implications for crop protection
Pesticide application methods
Pest management
Phytobiomes for pest and disease control
Resistance management
Sampling and monitoring schemes for diseases, nematodes, pests and weeds.


The editors of Crop Protection invite workers concerned with pest, disease and weed control to submit suitable contributions on any topic falling within the aims and scope of the journal.

 Perspectives in Crop Protection articles
State of the art Review articles
Original high-quality Research papers 
Short communications
Correspondence
Crop Protection also publishes, book reviews, conference reports and a calendar of forthcoming events

Chair Editor
S.N. Wegulo
Dept. of Plant Pathology, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Lincoln, USA Crop pathogens such as fungi; oomycetes; bacteria; viruses; other microbes and nematodes.
Editors
J. Correll
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA Crop pathogens such as fungi, oomycetes, bacteria, viruses, other microbes.
J.V. Cross
NIAB EMR, East Malling, Kent, England, UK Pesticide applications, entomology, integrated pest management, tropical pest management. Invertebrate crop pests including insects, mites and molluscs. Vertebrate crop pests including mammals and birds. Pesticides and crop protection agents application technology (spraying methodology)
L Korsten
University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa Food Safety, Food security, Postharvest pathology, biological control, Plant pathology, citrus black spot, Penicillium, water quality, food borne pathogens, plant pathogens, microbial ecology, phytosanitary issues
M. T. Rahman
Government of Western Australia, South Perth, Western Australia, Australia Insect Biology & Ecology, Behavior, Population Demography, Insecticide Toxicology, Integrated Pest Management, Insecticide Resistance Management, Biological Control, Post-Harvest Disinfestation
F.P.F. Reay-Jones
Clemson University, Florence, South Carolina, USA Invertebrate crop pests including insects, mites and molluscs. Vertebrate crop pests including mammals and birds. Knowledge and technology transfer in crop protection. Integrated Pest Management in Field Crop Systems
C. Zhang
Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China Weed Biology and Management, Herbicide Resistance and Management, Herbicide Application.
Statistical Consultant
C. Ritz
University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg C, Denmark
Editorial Board
X. Chen
Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, USA Epidemiology and control of rusts, including cultural, chemical, and disease resistance; disease forecasting models; virulence, population structures, and functional genomics; genetics and molecular mapping of disease resistance genes; molecular mechanisms of plant-pathogen interactions.
C.A. Edwards
The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA Applied soil ecology and ecotoxicology
W. Elmer
Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station (CAES), New Haven, Connecticut, USAManagement of Fusarium diseases;biological control on Soilborne plant pathogens;mineral nutrition effects on Soilborne plant pathogens.
L. Gatehouse
HortResearch Palmerston North, Palmerston North, New Zealand Molecular Biology, particularly of insects and plants. This covers straight molecular biology and extends to plant and some insect transgenesis together with the expression and analysis of the expression of introduced genes. I have some experience of Biochemistry but do not consider myself an expert. I have a blind spot with Statistics and am most definately not an expert.I have worked with insect viruses, insect symbionts and insect cell lines for baculovirus expression and other studies. Most of my work has been in the field of Plant Insect interactions looking at this from both sides and usually with a focus on crop protection.
D.P. Giga
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe Stored Products Entomology (crop storage).
L. Godfrey
University of California, Davis, Davis, California, USA Entomology, crop response, integrated pest management, cotton, rice, field crops
A.R. Hardy
Central Science Laboratory, York, UK
S. Hashim
University of Agriculture Peshawar, Pakistan
W.D. Hutchison
University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota, USA Biological Control and Integrated Management of Arthropod Pests
K. Jabran
Nigde Omer Halisdemir University, Nigde, Turkey Weed ecology, weed control, integrated weed management, weed control in major field crops, allelopathy for weed control, invasive weeds and climate change
W.J. Janisiewicz
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Kearneysville, West Virginia, USA
J. Katan
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel Soil-borne , pathogens , soil solarization , soil disinfestation.
J.R. Lamichhane
Institut Nationale de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Castanet Tolosan, FranceAbiotic (water, heat and mechanical) and biotic (soil-borne fungi, oomycetes and bacterial pathogens) stresses affecting crop establishment; Integrated Pest Management
S. Liu
Nat.Pingtung University of Sci.& Tech., Pingtung Hsien, Taiwan Crop eco-physiological adaptation to arid environment; field crops management; ecosystem sustainable designing and the role of human being in restoring and conserving the structure and function of integrated ecosystem especially in the arid and semiarid regions in northwest of China and other similar regions in the world.
G Mahajan
Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India
G.A. Matthews
Imperial College London, Ascot, UK Pesticides and their application;entomology ;integrated pest/ crop management (IPM);crops esp Cotton;control of vectors of human diseases eg malaria but that has only to do with farmers' health and not crop protection.
P.D. Mitchell
University of Wisconsin at Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA Crop economics; production economics; farm management; risk management; insect management; weed management; resistance management; transgenic crops; biotechnology; agricultural sustainability metrics.
S.E. Naranjo
USDA-ARS, Arid-Land Agricultural Research Center, Maricopa, , Arizona, USA IPM of arthropod pests, Insect biological control, insect population ecology, sampling and economic thresholds, risk assessment in GM crops
R.E.L. Naylor
University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
O.M. Olanya
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania, USA
A. Ortega-Beltran
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria Biocontrol of Aspergillus fungi; Screening for disease resistance; Tropical crops; Cereal crops; Integrated management strategies; Fungal population biology
C. Screpanti
Syngenta Crop Protection, Stein, Switzerland Plant hormones and crop enhancement; Weed control; Soil pest control; Behavior of agrochemicals in soil; Rhizosphere signals; Plant phenotyping and remote sensing
K.W. Seebold
Valent U.S.A. LLC, Lexington, Kentucky, USA Soilborne plant pathogens – ecology and epidemiology (cotton and vegetable crops)Fungicide resistance and resistance managementIntegrated pest managementMycologyEpidemiology and management of plant disease
P.C. Stevenson
University of Greenwich, Chatham, UK Natural Products Chemistry; Bioactive compounds from plants; Botanical Insecticides; Chemical Ecology; Pollination Biology
J.C. Streibig
University of Copenhagen, Taastrup, Denmark Weed science and vegetation management.
M.E. Tobin
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Fort Collins, Colorado, USA human-wildlife conflicts, wildlife crop damage, wildlife damage control
P. Trematerra
Università degli Studi del Molise, Campobasso, Italy Applied entomology; integrated pest management; insect crop pests; stored product pests; pheromones and application technology; stored products protection.
A. van der Meulen
Queensland Government, TooWoomba, Queensland, Australia
J. van der Waals
University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
D. Wright
Imperial College London, Ascot, UK EntomologyPlant nematologyIntegrated Pest ManagementBiological controlBiopesticidesPheromonesMultitrophic interactions