Genetic Diversity and Pathogenic Mechanisms in Plant Pathogenic Bacteria
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Pest and Disease Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2025 | Viewed by 469
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Interests: the development and utilization of new targets for green prevention and control of plant bacterial diseases
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Dear Colleagues,
Food security is a fundamental issue of global concern and an eternal topic. However, as one of the most important plant diseases, plant bacterial diseases seriously harm and threaten the safety, quality, and yield of global plant production, resulting in huge economic losses. Exploring the genetic diversity of plant pathogenic bacteria and revealing their pathogenic mechanisms can help us identify new control targets and then develop new chemical pesticides or biological pesticides, laying a theoretical foundation for the comprehensive prevention and control of the outbreak and epidemic of these diseases.
The purpose of this Special Issue is to collect the latest scientific advances related to the genetic diversity and pathogenic mechanisms of plant pathogenic bacteria and the discovery of new targets for control.
The following four aspects should be included:
(1) Investigation and analysis of pathogen bacterial diversity of crop bacterial diseases in the field, that is, population genetic analysis;
(2) Diversity and pathogenic mechanisms of bacterial diseases in horticultural crops;
(3) Prediction and design of new control targets for plant and bacterial diseases based on structural biology-based structural modeling or molecular docking technologies and platforms;
(4) The basis and application of new cutting-edge technologies based on genetic diversity and new pathogenic mechanisms in the isolation and detection of pathogenic bacteria;
(5) The design and development of inhibitors targeted main pathogenic systems, such as the type III secretory system and quorum sensing system.
Dr. Xiaolong Shao
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- genetic diversity
- population genetic analysis
- structural modeling or molecular docking
- type III secretion system
- quorum sensing system
- c-di-GMP
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