The Executive Editor wishes to draw attention to an unfortunate spelling error in the name of an author which was not corrected in proof, for which he apologizes. The name of the last author on the paper ‘Genetic diversity of isolates of the Leptosphaeria maculans species complex from Australia, Europe and North America using amplified fragment length polymorphism analysis’ (Mycological Research104: 772–781, July 2000) is Barbara J. Howlett, not ‘Howle’ as printed on the paper and in the list of contents on the back cover. This will be given correctly in the contents list for the whole volume to be issued with the December 2000 number.