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The journal covers impacts of plant-associated microbes including phytopathogens (viruses, bacteria, fungi, oomycetes, nematodes) and phytosymbionts (e.g. mycorrhizae, rhizobia, plant growth promoting rhizobacteria and fungi, endophytes) on plant-associated arthropods such as pollinators and herbivorous or disease-vectoring arthropods and their natural enemies, and vice versa. Likewise, it covers the impacts of arthropod-associated microbes including entomopathogens, baculoviruses and nutritional or defensive endosymbionts on plant-arthropod and plant-microbe interactions, and vice versa.
The scope of the journal encompasses both studies focusing on individual species and studies addressing impacts of/on whole communities, including plant, rhizosphere or arthropod microbiomes. Innovative contributions that address the multitude of PMA interactions in natural or food-production systems, the impact of abiotic environmental factors modulating these interactions, their underlying molecular and ecological mechanisms, and their ecological and evolutionary consequences are welcomed.