Sustainable Strategies for the Control of Crop Diseases and Pests to Reduce Pesticides
This special issue belongs to the section "Pest and Disease Management".
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Crop diseases and pests may cause considerable yield losses and threaten food supply and security. Moreover, there is clear evidence that the geographical distribution of several pathogens and pests is expanding due to climate changes and increasing global trade.
Regular ways of pest and disease control based only on the use of synthetic pesticides are no longer effective or sustainable because their intensive application negatively affects the environment, human health, and biodiversity. Moreover, one of the challenges is the development of resistance in pests and pathogens toward these pesticides, making them less efficient or not efficient at all. Thus, to ensure better control and ecological sustainability, it is crucial to reduce pesticides by adopting alternative strategies to maintain the pest/pathogen populations below the economic injury level and toward reaching the European Green Deal.
In this Special Issue, we welcome original research articles and reviews addressing the current research advances on major diseases and pests of various crops along with appropriate and innovative control methods to minimize the impacts and risks of pesticides in order to reach a resource-efficient and competitive agriculture.
Dr. Maria Céu Lavado da Silva
Dr. Carmenza E. Góngora
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- integrated pest and disease management
- decision-support systems
- competitive agriculture
- impact of climate change
- resistance breeding
- biological control
- cultural practices
- plant resistance inducers
- mechanisms of plant resistance/tolerance
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Published Papers
Agronomy - ISSN 2073-4395