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Horticultural Plants Pathology and Advances in Disease Management—2nd Edition
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Horticultural Plants Pathology and Advances in Disease Management—2nd Edition

A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Pathology and Disease Management (PPDM)".

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Special Issue Editors

Dr. Vladimir K. Chebotar

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All-Russia Research Institute for Agricultural Microbiology, Podbelskogo hwy, 3, Pushkin, 196608 St. Petersburg, Russia
Interests: agricultural microbiology; mechanisms of plant-microbial interactions; development of microbial technologies for agriculture
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Dr. Anastasiya M. Kamionskaya

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Institute of Bioengineering, Research Centre of Biotechnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119071 Moscow, Russia
Interests: agrobiotechnology; plant genome editing; plant biosafety; molecular phytopathology; plant phytopathology
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue, entitled “Horticultural Plants Pathology and Advances in Disease Management—2nd Edition”, focused on plant–pathogen interactions, the biocontrol of diseases, and advancements in disease management, including technologies and products that are safe for the environment. This Special Issue of Horticulturae is also devoted to innovative tools developed in the field of the control of horticultural crop diseases, including ecologically safe  technologies, to provide international scientists and producers with strategies for reducing various types of risks with the use of genome editing technology. The strategies that are safe-by-design for genome-edited or transgenic plants and “genetic firewalls” might be used to control plant diseases caused by pathogens and environmental conditions. At the same time, advancements in disease management technology—pathogen detection methods, NGS, bioinformatics analyses, etc.—are essential for the better detection and control of the ongoing evolution and movement of horticulture plant pathogens. Hence, we invite you to make a contribution to this issue to support future sustainable agricultural development. Original papers, reviews, and comments are welcome.

Dr. Vladimir K. Chebotar
Dr. Anastasiya M. Kamionskaya
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • plant–pathogen interactions
  • biocontrol
  • disease management
  • horticultural plants phytopathology
  • phytopathogen detection
  • transgenic and genome-edited horticultural plants
  • genetic firewall for plants
  • plant disease resistance

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Biological Control of Streptomyces Species Causing Common Scabs in Potato Tubers in the Yaqui Valley, Mexico
by Amelia C. Montoya-Martínez, Roel Alejandro Chávez-Luzanía, Ana Isabel Olguín-Martínez, Abraham Ruíz-Castrejón, Jesús Daniel Moreno-Cárdenas, Fabiola Esquivel-Chávez, Fannie I. Parra-Cota and Sergio de los Santos-Villalobos
Horticulturae 2024, 10(8), 865; https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae10080865 - 15 Aug 2024
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Potatoes (Solanum tuberosum L.) represent an important food in the country’s gastronomy due to their cost, nutritional contribution, and versatility. However, many plant diseases such as the common scab—caused by Streptomyces species—reduce its yield and quality. This study aims to determine Streptomyces [...] Read more.
Potatoes (Solanum tuberosum L.) represent an important food in the country’s gastronomy due to their cost, nutritional contribution, and versatility. However, many plant diseases such as the common scab—caused by Streptomyces species—reduce its yield and quality. This study aims to determine Streptomyces species being the causal agent of common scabs in a commercial potato field in the Yaqui Valley, Mexico, while identifying Bacillus strains as a biological control method to mitigate the impact of this disease under field conditions. Thus, three Streptomyces strains were selected from symptomatic samples, and then they were morphologically and molecularly (through sequencing recA and rpoB genes) identified as Streptomyces caniscabiei. After pathogenicity tests, the three strains were found to be pathogenic to potato tubers. In screening assays to identify biocontrol bacteria, strain TSO2T (Bacillus cabrialesii subsp. tritici) and TE3T_UV25 (Bacillus subtilis) had the best in vitro biocontrol effect against S. caniscabiei. Then, a field experiment (1 ha per treatment), under commercial conditions, was carried out to analyze the effectivity of these biocontrol bacteria to mitigate the common scabs on potato crops. After four months, the inoculation of this bacterial consortium decreased common scab incidence from 31% to 21% and increased the potato yield up to almost 5 tons/ha vs. the un-inoculated treatment. These findings demonstrate the effectiveness of the studied bacterial consortium as a potential biological control strategy to control common scabs of potato caused by Streptomyces caniscabiei, as well as increase the potato yield in the Yaqui Valley, Mexico. Full article
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Whole Genome Characterization of Prunus Necrotic Ringspot Virus and Prune Dwarf Virus Infecting Stone Fruits in Russia
by Sergei Chirkov, Anna Sheveleva, Svetlana Tsygankova, Natalia Slobodova, Fedor Sharko, Kristina Petrova and Irina Mitrofanova
Horticulturae 2023, 9(8), 941; https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae9080941 - 18 Aug 2023
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We conducted a survey of the phytosanitary status of the Prunus germplasm collection in the Nikita Botanical Gardens, Yalta, Russia. The virome of plants displaying virus-like symptoms was studied using Illumina MiSeq high-throughput sequencing. Reads related to prunus necrotic ringspot virus (PNRSV), prune [...] Read more.
We conducted a survey of the phytosanitary status of the Prunus germplasm collection in the Nikita Botanical Gardens, Yalta, Russia. The virome of plants displaying virus-like symptoms was studied using Illumina MiSeq high-throughput sequencing. Reads related to prunus necrotic ringspot virus (PNRSV), prune dwarf virus (PDV), and ourmia-like virus 1 (OuLV1) were generated in a number of samples. Near complete genomes of two divergent PNRSV isolates, PDV isolate, and a contig partly covered OuLV1 genome were assembled de novo using the metaSPAdes program. The structure of the genomic RNA1, RNA2, and RNA3 of the new ilarvirus isolates was shown to be typical of PNRSV and PDV. This is the first report and characterization of the PNRSV and PDV full-length genomes from Russia, expanding the information on their geographical distribution and genetic diversity. An open reading frames (ORF)-based phylogeny of all full-length PNRSV and PDV genomes available in GenBank divided each ORF into two or three main clusters. A number of isolates migrated from one cluster to another cluster, depending on the analyzed genome segment. The different branching order may indicate reassortment in the evolutionary history of some PDV and PNRSV isolates. Full article
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Effects of ‘Candidatus’ Liberibacter Asiaticus on the Root System of Poncirus trifoliata Hybrids as a Rootstock for ‘Valencia’ Scion
by Thaís Magni Cavichioli, Maiara Curtolo, Mariangela Cristofani-Yaly, Josiane Rodrigues and Helvécio Della Coletta-Filho
Horticulturae 2024, 10(9), 942; https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae10090942 - 3 Sep 2024
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The symptoms of huanglongbing (HLB), a disease caused by the bacterium Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus (CLas), are visible on the canopy of citrus plants. They include mottling of leaves followed by dropping and lopsided fruits with premature dropping. Loss in phloem functionality [...] Read more.
The symptoms of huanglongbing (HLB), a disease caused by the bacterium Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus (CLas), are visible on the canopy of citrus plants. They include mottling of leaves followed by dropping and lopsided fruits with premature dropping. Loss in phloem functionality and degradation of the root system are also HLB symptoms with a severe impact on plant growth and production. Some Citrus relatives, such as Poncirus trifoliata and its hybrids, have shown more tolerance to HLB disease and low titers of CLas compared to Citrus species, but little is known about the effects of CLas on their root system. In this study, we investigated the effects of CLas-infected ‘Valencia’ scion on the citrandarin IAC3222 (a hybrid between P. trifoliata and Sunki mandarin) used as rootstock as well as interstock between ‘Valencia’ and Swingle citrumelo rootstock. At 13 months post-inoculation, the cycle threshold values (CT) for CLas in the infected scion samples indicated a high CLas titer (from 15.9 to 22.7) regardless of the rootstock variety or interstock used. However, no CLas-positive samples were detected in the roots of IAC3222 (CT ranging from 37.9 to 40.0), in contrast to all Swingle roots (CT ranging from 27.9 to 31.3). Both root volume and mass were reduced in IAC3222 compared to uninfected ‘Valencia’ scion, suggesting that scion infection damages roots, regardless of whether they are contaminated or not by CLas. The damage to the root system of IAC3222 was significantly less severe than that of the Swingle rootstock. Multivariate hierarchical analysis considering all evaluated parameters clustered the CLas-infected plants grafted on IAC3222 together with the non-inoculated plants. We concluded that the IAC3222 rootstock was less affected by the CLas-infected scion compared to the Swingle rootstock and is a promising rootstock to minimize the HLB effect on plant development. Full article
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