Evolution-Smart Integrated Disease Management Strategies against Fungicide Resistance in the Agroecosystem

Dear Colleagues,

Resistance to fungicides used to control plant pathogens is a threat to effective crop protection and therefore to food security. Tighter regulations and a slowing pipeline of new products have also reduced the range of available chemical classes. This has led to a greater dependence on fewer fungicides and mode of actions, increasing selection for further cases of resistance. The limited availability of effective crop protection products, coupled with lack of genetic resistance in major crop varieties, is making key pathogens increasingly difficult to control. In addition, because the onset of disease epidemics is poorly understood for most pathosystems, appropriate antiresistance strategies and optimal disease control cannot be achieved. In order to rationalize fungicide inputs (e.g., product choice, dose rate, spray frequency and timing, and mixing/alternation of fungicides) and to test antiresistance strategies aiming to reduce disease inoculum and delay evolution and spread of resistance against current and new fungicides, high throughput monitoring tools, enabling quantitative measurement of pathogen levels and detection of fungicide resistant alleles, in combination with disease forecasting, are needed. In this Special Issue, we aim to exchange knowledge on evolution-smart integrated disease management strategies against fungicide resistance in the agroecosystem.

Dr. Paulo Cezar Ceresini
Guest Editor

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