The NPDN Communicator is a monthly publication to share information valuable to the plant diagnostic community.
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Current Edition - April 2026
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We welcome lab updates, interesting findings, as well as diagnostic and outreach materials. Introduce your lab or a new diagnosticians in your lab; announce webinars or workshops available to the network; share your diagnostics photos; share knowledge; or share material you have prepared for other media with your NPDN colleagues.
Content submission guidelines
- Text should be submitted as unformatted Microsoft Word (or similar).
- Please use a clear and descriptive title that indicates what is in the article.
- Photos and Figures should be submitted as individual files (jpeg, png are accepted). If you wish to add captions, they should be included in the text where you want the image to appear, or submitted separately in a Word document.
- If you wish to attach a Word, pdf, or PowerPoint document, please ensure is ADA compliant. Here is some information about implementing ADA compliance.
Please submit articles for publication in the NPDN Communicator to editor Clarissa Balbalian (newsletter_editor@npdn.org).
Submissions are accepted by the editor on a rolling basis. However, if submitted content is intended for inclusion in the next newsletter, then it should be received by the editor no later than the last day of the preceding month. (i.e. content for the February newsletter should be received by the editor no later than January 31st).
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You can browse old issues of the old NPDN newsletter using this link. Archived pdf's newsletters are not ADA compliant.
