Detection and Diagnostics of Bacterial Plant Pathogens

Dear Colleagues,

Plant bacterial pathogens infect plants worldwide and cause destructive damages and losses to plant quality and yield. The early and quick detection and diagnostics of bacterial plant pathogens are critical for developing efficient approaches to control these harmful plant pathogens and diseases to reduce economic losses. However, there are challenges in the early and quick detection and diagnostics of some of these bacterial pathogens, such as in facing the low amount of bacterial pathogens without symptoms at the early stage, the emerging bacterial pathogens, and the simultaneous co-existence of multiple plant pathogens in plants and the environment. In recent decades, there have been significant improvements and developments in microscopy skills, next-generation sequencing techniques, molecular and genetic tools, omics approaches, etc. All these facilitate and improve our capability to detect and diagnose these harmful plant bacterial pathogens quicker and more efficiently. This Special Issue aims to address how different techniques can help us to detect, diagnose, and quantify these harmful plant bacterial pathogens with more sensitivity, accuracy, convenience, and feasible applications. Case studies of newly identified plant bacterial pathogens using different approaches will also be included in this Special Issue.

Dr. Ye Xia
Guest Editor

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