Molecular Mechanisms, Frontier Technologies and Green Prevention Applications of Plant–Pathogen Interactions
A Special Issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747) belonging to the section "Plant Protection and Biotic Interactions".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2027 | Viewed by 1
Editors
Interests: rapeseed; molecular biology of abiotic stress; plant–pathogen interactions
Interests: rapeseed; mining stess-and disease-resistance genes; germplasm innovation; breeding new varieties
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Plant pathogen interaction constitutes a core research area in plant pathology, molecular biology, and agricultural biotechnology. It serves as the theoretical foundation for deciphering plant disease resistance mechanisms, elucidating pathogen infection strategies, and developing crop disease control technologies. Against the backdrop of global climate change, intensive farming practices, and rapid pathogen evolution, crop diseases occur frequently, host resistance declines, and emerging diseases break out, severely restricting the high-quality development of agriculture and forestry industries as well as food and ecological security.
In recent years, with the rapid advancement of frontier technologies including multi-omics sequencing, gene editing, non-coding RNA regulation, microbiome profiling, and artificial intelligence-assisted prediction, remarkable breakthroughs have been achieved in understanding cross-kingdom crosstalk, immune recognition, signaling pathway regulation, effector-mediated immune evasion by pathogens, and host resistance evolution. These advances have revolutionized our understanding of plant disease resistance and pathogen virulence. Meanwhile, green technologies derived from mechanistic insights, such as broad-spectrum disease-resistant breeding, microbial-based ecological disease control, and precision intelligent plant protection, have become vital alternatives to conventional chemical pesticides for achieving green and sustainable agriculture.
This Special Issue aims to systematically summarize the latest findings, frontier theories, and practical applications in plant pathogen interaction research. We welcome high-quality original research articles, review papers, and technical innovation manuscripts covering plant immune regulatory networks, pathogen virulence and evolutionary mechanisms, cross-kingdom molecular interactions, stress-modulated host-pathogen responses, novel analytical technologies, disease-resistant germplasm innovation, and green disease control strategies. The outcomes will provide theoretical support and technical references for crop genetic improvement for disease resistance, green management of major crop diseases, and establishment of eco-friendly plant protection systems, facilitating the integration of fundamental plant pathology research with agricultural production.
Dr. Weinan Sun
Prof. Dr. Zhen Huang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- plant immunity
- pathogenic mechanism of pathogens
- cross kingdom interaction
- omics analysis
- gene regulation
- microbiome
- green disease control
- resistance breeding
- intelligent plant protection
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