Mechanisms of Plant Resistance to Pathogens
A special issue of Pathogens (ISSN 2076-0817).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 3419
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Plants are constantly subjected to biological pressures that could compromise their growth and development. As the interests of plants and pathogens are opposite and antagonistic, the evolutionary dynamics between them will never end. The arms race is triggered by the confrontation between the resistance of plants and the ability of pathogen invasion. Plant immune systems trigger a wide range of defense mechanisms to orchestrate transcriptional reprogramming through receptor proteins, signal transduction cascades, reactive oxygen species, hormone signaling pathways, and epigenetic modifications to protect plants against pathogens. The complex mechanisms of plants enable them to survive not only against single stresses but also against a combination of biotic and abiotic stresses.
For this Special Issue of the journal Pathogens, we invite investigators to submit research papers and review articles presenting recent advances related to our knowledge of the mechanisms of plant resistance to pathogens including bacteria, fungi, and virus in agricultural and horticultural plants. We look forward to your contribution.
Dr. Yantao Jia
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Bacteria
- Fungi
- Virus
- Plant–pathogen interactions
- Plant immune system
- ROS
- Hormone crosstalk in plant immunity
- Calcium signaling in plant immunity
- Epigenetic modification
- RNA silencing
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