Advances in Plant-Fungal Pathogen Interaction

Dear Colleagues,

Fungal pathogens are widely known to be destructive, causing economically important plant diseases, especially in greenhouse crops and ornamentals, during their cultivation, storage, and distribution. In recent years, significant developments have been made in the biology of fungi at the genetic, transcriptomic, proteomic, and metabolomic levels. In this way, it has been possible to identify genes such as pathogenicity and/or virulence factors, proteins secreted and used by the fungi to cause infection, and also toxins and other metabolites synthesized by these pathogens. Although many scientific advances have been made in the development of in vitro experiments, many groups are choosing to carry out in vivo experiments, closer to reality, where the plant can develop their defense mechanisms. In this Special Issue of the Plants journal, titled "Advances in Plant-Fungal Pathogen Interaction", we want to collect articles from your research groups that study these attack mechanisms of fungal pathogens during plant infection or related with the mechanisms of infection of fungi and mechanisms of defense of host plants, including genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic, and metabolomic approaches.

Dr. Carlos Garrido
Dr. Victoria E. González-Rodríguez
Dr. Hernando José Bolivar Anillo
Guest Editors

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