Phytophthora: Molecular Phylogeny, Culture Collections, and Emerging Diseases
A special issue of Pathogens (ISSN 2076-0817). This special issue belongs to the section "Fungal Pathogens".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2021) | Viewed by 6210
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Interests: phytophthora
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Dear Colleagues,
Phytophthora species attack thousands of plant hosts, and threaten not only important crops, such as potato, tomato, soybean, peppers, avocado, citrus, almond, cacao, oil palm, and so on, but they are also major factors in the destruction of native forests worldwide. Phytophthora cinnamomi has over 1000 hosts and has been a major factor in the destruction of forests in Australia. Phytophthora ramorum, the cause of sudden oak death, has emerged in the last few decades as a major pathogen in oak forests in the western USA and Canada. New species have emerged as destructive pathogens of native vegetation in many parts of the world. In total, over 150 species are now recognized. Our means of controlling these pathogens and the destructive diseases they can cause is still very limited. There is a critical need for the development of genetic resource depositories, new detection technologies, the exploitation and creation of suppressive environments, the discovery and deployment of sources of resistance, and cost-effective and safe chemical control such as the current use of phosphite.
Prof. Michael David Coffey
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- cryogenic preservation
- microbial collections
- DNA
- molecular phylogeny
- detection methods
- Phytophthora ramorum
- Phytophthora cinnamomi
- P. kernoviae
- P. lateralis
- P. austrocedri
- new Phytophthora species
