Journal of Plant Science & Molecular Breeding is an Open Access (Gold OA), peer reviewed, international online publishing journal, which aims to publish top quality papers on diseases of plants and their causative organisms and also considers manuscripts related to molecular breeding of crop plants. Areas of interest include plant diseases caused by fungi, bacteria, viruses, phytoplasmas and nematodes; plant pathology and disease epidemiology; crop loss assessment and control; molecular genetics and genomic analysis; structural and functional genomics; proteomics and metabolic profiling; abiotic stress; transgenic crop evaluation; marker assisted breeding; QTL cloning; and integration of conventional and molecular breeding approaches.