Advances in Plant Nematology Research
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: 20 January 2026 | Viewed by 1046
Special Issue Editor
Interests: nematology; molecular systematics; phylogenetics; molecular diagnostics; phylogeography; phylogenomics
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Dear Colleagues,
Plant-parasitic nematodes are recognized as one of the greatest threats to crop production throughout the world. All plant-parasitic nematodes are obligatory parasites, feeding exclusively on the cytoplasm of living plant cells. It has been shown that several groups of most agriculturally important nematodes establish complex interactions with their plant host. In recent decades, the application of various techniques of molecular biology like DNA sequencing, gene expression, and protein analysis has rapidly increased to resolve problems in plant nematology. Novel knowledge obtained in these molecular studies has offered a completely new picture of nematode evolution, genome formation, biodiversity, principles of interaction with plants, endosymbiotic organisms, and environments. New discoveries have been made in identifying genes responsible for parasitism and understanding host resistance and virulence mechanisms, which can be applied to the development of novel nematode control methods. This Special Issue will focus on recent advances in all aspects of molecular biological studies in nematology, including molecular systematics, diagnostics, phylogenetics, genomics, biodiversity, molecular ecology, plant–nematode interactions, and other research directions.
Dr. Sergei A. Subbotin
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- DNA barcoding
- Molecular evolution
- Genomes
- Molecular systematics
- Phylogenetics
- Plant–nematode interactions
- Transcriptomics
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