Genomics of Fungal Plant Pathogens, 4th Edition
A special issue of Journal of Fungi (ISSN 2309-608X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 97
Special Issue Editors
2. Fujian Universities Key Laboratory for Plant Microbe Interaction, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
Interests: plant-fungal interactions
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Interests: phytopathogenic fungi; genes; virulence; transcription factors
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Fungi cause most of the severe plant diseases that endanger food safety worldwide. Resistance to fungal pathogens is a major target of breeders; however, the unexpected mutation of avirulence genes has caused a boom and burst cycle in resistance and resistance breakdown. Fungicide-based chemical control is still the most important method to control plant fungal diseases, but most fungicides induce fungi to develop fungicide resistance. Many scientists are working on these aspects to develop ecological control strategies for plant fungal diseases. Recent advances in sequencing technologies have led to remarkable progress in understanding plant–fungal interactions based on the dissection of fungal genomes. Many important plant pathogenic fungi have successfully been studied using the second and third-generation sequencing approaches. Increasingly, functional genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics are being applied to study plant fungal pathogens. The development of advanced genomic tools and infrastructure is also making great progress. These increasing amounts of data will provide useful information to improve our understanding of the molecular mechanisms involved in host–pathogen interactions, in order to better understand fungal genome features, such as repetitive sequences, telomeres, conserved syntenic blocks, and the expansion of pathogenicity-related genes. The findings of these studies can be exploited to optimize beneficial interactions and to develop new plant-protection strategies.
This Special Issue is aimed at compiling research, reviews, and opinion articles covering new scientific discoveries in plant–fungal genomics. Articles covering new insights in genomic sequencing, functional genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, molecular biology, ecology dissection, and the molecular mechanisms involved in plant–fungal interactions at the genome level are welcomed.
Prof. Dr. Zonghua Wang
Prof. Dr. Yizhen Deng
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- plant pathogen
- genomic sequencing
- functional genomics
- molecular biology
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