Crop Fungal, Oomycetic Disease and Control
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Protection and Biotic Interactions".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 July 2023) | Viewed by 4410
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fungi; oomycetes; etiology; epidemiology; plant–pathogen interactions; virulence; effector; management; pathogenomics; plant immunity
Interests: rapeseed diseases; disease resiatance; molecular breeding; stomatal immunity; non-host resistance
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Interests: fungi; oomycetes; etiology; epidemiology; plant–pathogen interactions; virulence; effector; management; pathogenomics; plant immunity
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Filamentous plant pathogens, such as fungi and oomycetes, are responsible for significant plant production losses worldwide in agriculture, forestry and natural ecosystems. For example, diseases caused by fungal pathogens including rice blast (Magnaporthe oryzae), wheat stem rust (Puccinia graminis) and wheat powdery mildew (Blumeria graminis f. sp. tritici), and oomycetic diseases such as potato blight caused by the Irish famine pathogen Phytophthora infestans, are of immediate concern for global food security. Knowledge about (but not limited to) the etiology, epidemiology, and mechanisms of the interactions between plants and filamentous pathogens need to be obtained in order to combat these crop diseases. Meanwhile, management strategies and measures of the diseases caused by fungi and oomycetes should be developed.
The aim of this Special Issue is to provide a platform for a collection of articles related to the understanding and management of crop diseases caused by phytopathogenic fungi and oomycetes. We welcome the submission of original research articles, methods papers, and reviews (please contact the Guest Editors before review submission) related to the topic.
Prof. Dr. Xiaoren Chen
Prof. Dr. Huajian Zhang
Dr. Vaibhav Srivastava
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- fungi
- oomycetes
- etiology
- epidemiology
- plant–pathogen interactions
- virulence
- effector
- management
- pathogenomics
- plant immunity
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