Improved Plant Fusarium Management with New Biocontrol Concepts
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Pest and Disease Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 August 2022) | Viewed by 207
Special Issue Editor
Interests: microorganisms; plant endophytic fungi; Fusarium spp.
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Dear Colleagues,
We are inviting submissions to the Special Issue on “Improved Plant Fusarium Management with New Biocontrol Concepts”.
Fusarium species are among the most serious plant pathogens. These fungi have developed advanced plant penetration, infection, and colonization strategies to enable suppressing plant defenses and causing disease. Excessive damage to plant tissues and the related losses in crops, which in the case of cereal grains additionally contaminate Fusarium mycotoxins, cause serious economic losses with negative socio-ecological consequences.
Modern agriculture faces many challenges related to the proper and effective management of Fusarium diseases, especially to meet the global demand for safe, healthy, and varied food.
The increased risk of Fusarium diseases, and even epidemics, due to the intensification of agriculture, the lack of disease-resistant varieties, the existence of monoculture crops, loss of biodiversity in agroecosystems, depletion of soil production potential, and global climate change makes these challenges difficult and forces the need to develop and implement innovative, environmentally friendly, and low-cost concepts for plant Fusarium disease management systems.
Dr. Lidia Błaszczyk
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- crops
- cereals
- mycotoxins
- biofungicides
- innovative agrobiotechnology
- safe and healthy food
