Molecular Mechanisms and Integrated Control of Pathogen Crops
A special issue of Crops (ISSN 2673-7655).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 December 2025) | Viewed by 1781
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biotic and abiotic stress; fungal pathogens; plant defense response; plant senescence
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Interests: agrobiotechnology; transgenesis; biotic and abiotic stress; plant disease resistance
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Biotic stress, either alone or with the combination of environmental abiotic conditions, impacts the production of agricultural and horticultural crops worldwide. Pathogens such as viruses, bacteria, and fungi attack farms, causing substantial economic losses and increasing food prices. Many agricultural crops are the basis of the human diet, and horticultural products are essential additions to human diets for their healthy properties and providing meal variety. Crops grown in ecological farms, where chemical crop protection products (e.g., pesticides) are forbidden, are highly valued by customers. Therefore, research on the molecular mechanism of crop diseases and their biological or integrated control is essential for disease management, good-quality food products, environmental protection, and biodiversity.
In this Special Issue, we encourage submissions of original papers and critical reviews on all molecular aspects of crop diseases that threaten plant food production locally and worldwide. Moreover, manuscripts on the biological control of agricultural and horticultural crop pathogens and pests under field and laboratory conditions are welcome.
Dr. Violetta Katarzyna Macioszek
Prof. Dr. Andrzej K. Kononowicz
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Crops is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1200 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- biological control of diseases
- climate change
- disease management
- pathogens and pests
- crops
- molecular plant responses
- pathogenesis
- plant diseases
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