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Crop Fungal, Oomycetic Disease and Control
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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 3137

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Xiaoren Chen

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College of Plant Protection, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
Interests: fungi; oomycetes; etiology; epidemiology; plant–pathogen interactions; virulence; effector; management; pathogenomics; plant immunity
Prof. Dr. Huajian Zhang

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College of Plant Protection, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China
Interests: rapeseed diseases; disease resiatance; molecular breeding; stomatal immunity; non-host resistance
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Dr. Vaibhav Srivastava

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School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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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Phytophthora pseudocryptogea, P. nicotianae and P. multivora Associated to Cycas revoluta: First Report Worldwide
by Francesco Aloi, Rossana Parlascino, Sebastiano Conti Taguali, Roberto Faedda, Antonella Pane and Santa Olga Cacciola
Plants 2023, 12(5), 1197; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12051197 - 6 Mar 2023
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A dieback was observed on three-year-old pot-grown plants of Cycas revoluta in Sicily (Italy). Symptoms, including stunting, yellowing and blight of the leaf crown, root rot and internal browning and decay of the basal stem, closely resembled the Phytophthora root and crown rot [...] Read more.
A dieback was observed on three-year-old pot-grown plants of Cycas revoluta in Sicily (Italy). Symptoms, including stunting, yellowing and blight of the leaf crown, root rot and internal browning and decay of the basal stem, closely resembled the Phytophthora root and crown rot syndrome, common in other ornamentals. Isolations from rotten stem and roots, using a selective medium, and from rhizosphere soil of symptomatic plants, using leaf baiting, yielded three Phytophthora species, P. multivora, P. nicotianae and P. pseudocryptogea, were obtained. Isolates were identified by both morphological characters and DNA barcoding analysis, using three gene regions: ITS, β-tub and COI. Phytophthora pseudocryptogea was the sole species isolated directly from the stem and roots. The pathogenicity of the isolates of the three Phytophthora species was tested on one-year-old potted plants of C. revoluta, using both stem inoculation by wounding, and root inoculation through infested soil. Phytophthora pseudocryptogea was the most virulent and, like P. nicotianae, reproduced all the symptoms of natural infections, while P. multivora was the least virulent and induced solely very mild symptoms. Phytophthora pseudocryptogea was identified as the causal agent of the decline of C. revoluta, as it was re-isolated from both the roots and stems of artificially infected symptomatic plants, thus fulfilling Koch’s postulates. Full article
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