Plant-Microbe Interaction: The Cellular Mechanism Influence Plant Health
A special issue of Biology (ISSN 2079-7737).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2025 | Viewed by 136
Special Issue Editors
Interests: genomics and epigenomics; systems biology; network biology; modeling omics data; plant breeding and biotechnology; plant-microbe interaction
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Dear Colleagues,
In an ecosystem, healthy plants have dense inhabitation of diverse microbes. The complex and dynamic communication between plants and microbes has evolved ever since the plants colonized the earth. Once a microbe and a potential plant host engage, molecules, such as metabolites, peptides, and proteins continuously flow bidirectionally between each other. Such interactions can be mutualistic, commensal, competitive, or parasitotic in an ecosystem, which is a major force in shaping the genomes of the two species and regulatory mechanisms via adaptive responses to each other. One of the central goals of studying the plant-microbe interaction is to understand how plants and microbes manipulate each other at multi-layer of molecular interactions to promote their own fitness in a system. The research focuses on this field include but not limited to the plant innate immune system, microbial pathogenesis, synergistic interactions, etc.
This special issue is devoted to covering a range of recent advances in natural and agricultural plant-microbe interacting systems using cutting-edge approaches and fostering new insights and central concepts towering understanding the underlying molecular mechanisms. All relevant original research and review articles aiming to propel plant-microbe biology and applications are welcome.
Dr. Wei Zhang
Dr. Gongjun Shi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- plant-microbe interaction
- plant health
- plant immunity
- gene-for-gene model
- resistosomes
- metabolic crosstalk
- climate change
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