Advances in Citrus Pathology and Disease Management
A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Pathology and Disease Management (PPDM)".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2023) | Viewed by 3559
Special Issue Editors
Interests: microbiology; plant pathology; molecular plant-microbe interactions
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Citrus is the one of most popular cultivated fruit types around the world. Citrus fruits play an important role in the agro economy of several countries, including China, Brazil, India and the United States. Citrus includes several economically important fruits such as lemons, limes, oranges, mandarins, tangerines, grapefruits, pomelo and many more.
Citrus cultivation and management faces multiple biotic and abiotic challenges. Citrus trees are being attacked by pathogenic bacteria (e.g., Ca. Liberibacter spp., Xanthomonas citri, Xylella fastidiosa, Spiroplasma citri, Ca. Phytoplasma aurantifolia), fungi (e.g., Phytophthora citrophthora, P. gummosis, Alternaria citri, Armillaria mellea), viruses (e.g., CTV, CTLV) and nematodes. Recent devastating outbreaks of Ca. Liberibacter asiaticus caused Huanglongbing disease in new geographical regions such as North and South America, triggering alarm among plant epidemiologists. The disease outbreak in new geographical regions is often associated with climate change. Research to help understand the biology, genetics, and ecology of citrus diseases is crucial to device disease management strategies and engineering disease-resistant plants.
Dr. Sheo Shankar Pandey
Dr. Dilip K Ghosh
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- citrus pathology
- bacterial diseases of plants
- viruses
- fungal diseases
- HLB
- disease management