New Insights into Plant–Microbe Interactions
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Plant Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 May 2025) | Viewed by 2694
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Interests: vegetable breeding; genetics and genomics; marker‑assisted selection; gene/QTL mapping; distant hybridization
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Dear Colleagues,
The photosynthetic capacity of plants to generate much of their own energy and resources makes them attractive targets to many microbes. The complex interplay between plants and beneficial and harmful microbes has evolved ever since they first appeared on land and shaped them at the genomic and phenotypic levels. A central goal of studying plant–microbe interaction is to understand how plant hosts and microbes communicate and/or manipulate each other to promote their own fitness in an positive or stressed ecosystem. Such research focuses include the plants’ innate immune system, microbial pathogenesis, and synergistic interactions. The advancement of biotechnological tools in fields of genomics, microscopes, biochemistry, and computational biology has revolutionized the study of plant–microbe interaction and fostered new insights and central concepts toward understanding the underlying molecular mechanisms.
Led by Prof. Dr. Yangyong Zhang and assisted by our Topical Advisory Panel Member, Dr. Wei Zhang (Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California Riverside, 2024 Keen Hall, 3401 Watkins Dr, Riverside, CA 92521, USA), this Special Issue is devoted to covering a range of recent advances in natural and agricultural plant–microbe interaction systems using cutting-edge approaches. We welcome all relevant original research, reviews, methods, and opinion articles that aim to propel plant–microbe biology research and applications forward.
Prof. Dr. Yangyong Zhang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- plant–microbe interaction
- plant immunity
- metabolism
- omics
- single-cell sequencing
- climate change
- synthetic biology
- engineered plants and microbes
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