MPMI Authors Can Now Submit an Article in One PDF Upload
MPMI’s editorial board is looking for ways to improve and streamline the MPMI author experience. Authors now have the option to upload an article as a single PDF file for the initial submission. That file should include properly formatted text and tables and figures with captions. Implementing this new procedure eliminates the need for multiple file uploads and greatly simplifies the initial submission process.
When an article is accepted, the author will still need to upload text files for the main document and high-resolution image files for all figures. Go here to submit your paper as a single PDF file.
Technical Advances Now Freely Available
The MPMI journal is also excited to announce that all Technical Advances will now be freely available once they have been edited and formatted. This means they can be accessed, read, and downloaded by anyone. Technical Advance articles describe innovative experimental techniques and their uses, and like Resource Announcements, they are tools that are helpful to the MPMI community.
“It’s important to MPMI that we provide a service to the research community,” according to MPMI Editor-in-Chief Jeanne Harris. “By making the latest techniques and procedures freely available, we are broadening our base of people who are doing the kind of research that we would like to publish and read about.”
By making these article types freely available (along with Resource Announcements), MPMI hopes to stimulate the field to try new approaches. Explains Harris, “This is a way that people can stay up to date in the technical processes and get ideas for how to solve new problems, technical or experimental.”
Read some of the latest Technical Advances published in MPMI:
Defining Transgene Insertion Sites and Off-Target Effects of Homology-Based Gene Silencing Informs the Application of Functional Genomics Tools in Phytophthora infestans
Andrea L. Vu, Wiphawee Leesutthiphonchai, Audrey M. V. Ah-Fong, and Howard S. Judelson
Phytophthora infestans Sporangia Produced in Culture and on Tomato Leaflet Lesions Show Marked Differences in Indirect Germination Rates, Aggressiveness, and Global Transcription Profiles
William E. Fry, Sean P. Patev, Kevin L. Myers, Kan Bao, and Zhangjun Fei
Development of a Pseudomonas syringae–Arabidopsis Suspension Cell Infection System for Investigating Host Metabolite-Dependent Regulation of Type III Secretion and Pattern-Triggered Immunity
Qing Yan, Conner J. Rogan, and Jeffrey C. Anderson
A Toolbox for Nodule Development Studies in Chickpea: A Hairy-Root Transformation Protocol and an Efficient Laboratory Strain of Mesorhizobium sp.
Drishti Mandal and Senjuti Sinharoy
