Plant Disease Control: Molecular and Cellular Aspects

Dear Colleagues,

Plant diseases have since antiquity shaped many aspects of our societies and agricultural practices. A better understanding of the interactions that plants establish with potential pathogens and what determines the outcome of these interactions would provide new opportunities to manage plant disease. This Special Issue of Plants invites original papers, reviews, and opinions on all aspects of plant adaptation to biotic stress with an emphasis on descriptive and mechanistic features at the cellular, tissue, or whole plant level. From pathogenesis to tolerance or resistance, all mechanisms and determinants will give us important insights that could help to understand and enhance plant disease control. In addition, the use of biological agents to prevent the development of plant disease is an old concept that raises renewed interest due to a general desire to reduce the use of pesticides. We now need to better understand how micro-organisms interact with the plant and with other members of the plant-associated microbiota for the isolation and development of effective biological agents. New knowledge on these interactions and mechanisms is welcome.

Dr. Corinne Schmitt-Keichinger
Guest Editor

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• plant–pathogen interaction
• resistance or tolerance
• disease determinant
• biocontrol agent
• biotic stress
• cross-protection