Identification and Characterization of Plant Pathogenic Bacteria
A special issue of Pathogens (ISSN 2076-0817). This special issue belongs to the section "Bacterial Pathogens".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 July 2024) | Viewed by 447
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant microbiome; plant–pathogen interaction; biocontrol
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Dear Colleagues,
Bacterial pathogens are the main type of disease in plants, affecting crop production and causing significant annual losses on a global scale. In the past decades, many chemical management strategies, such as antibiotics or copper, were applied for controlling plant bacterial diseases. However, the use of antibiotics or copper has been impacted by the evaluation of resistance in populations of plant bacterial pathogens. To develop eco-friendly and sustainable strategies against plant bacterial disease, it is important to understand the biology of bacterial pathogens, elucidate the interactions between the bacterial pathogens and hosts, and study the relationship between the bacterial pathogens and their associated microbes.
In this Special Issue of Pathogens, we invite investigators to submit original research and review articles presenting advanced research on the identification and characterization of plant pathogenic bacteria, including, but are not limited to:
1) Biology of plant bacterial pathogens.
2) Interaction between the bacterial pathogen and host.
3) Microbiome of bacterial pathogens and their associated microbes.
Dr. Chuanyu Yang
Dr. Veronica Ancona
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- bacterial pathogens
- pathogen biology
- interactions between the pathogen and host
- microbiome
- plant pathology
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