Acta Phytopathologica Sinica (APS, ISSN 0412-0914), established in 1955, is a bimonthly academic journal co-sponsored by the Chinese Phytopathology Society and China Agricultural University, and supervised by China Association for Science and Technology. It aims at advancing our understanding of plant pathology and publishes fundamental and applied researches on broad aspects of plant diseases, which include but are not limited to etiology, diagnosis, epidemiology and management of plant diseases, and molecular basis of plant-microbe interaction. APS publishes original full-length research articles, reviews, methods, and new disease reports. The journal is indexed in CAB (UK), Agrindex (FAO), Chemical Abstracts (USA), Japan Science and Technology Agency Database (JST), Chinese Science Citation Database (CSCD), Chinese Science and Technology Paper Citation Database (CSTPCD), China Science and Technology Journal Database (CSTJ), Chinese Agricultural Sci-tech Documents Database (CASDD), etc; has won several prestigious national awards such as "China Science and Technology Core Journals", "China Agricultural Core Journals", "the Outstanding S&T Journals of China", "Top 100 Outstanding Academic Journals of China", etc.