Molecular Genetics of Disease Resistance in Fruits
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 May 2023) | Viewed by 14675
Special Issue Editors
Interests: horticultural plant; plant pathology; biochemistry; biotechnology; physiology
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: soil microbiome study; resistant breeding; pathogen population biology; biocontrol regulatory plant pathology; plant disease diagnosis; plant disease management (foliar and soil-borne diseases employing host resistance and/ biocontrol)
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The development of the fruit industry is limited by disease. The most effective strategies for overcoming diseases in fruit include selecting disease-resistant fruit resources and developing disease-resistant varieties via breeding. Therefore, it is crucial to identify new candidate genes and explore the molecular mechanisms underlying disease resistance in fruit.
This Special issue of Plants will highlight the understanding of the physiological, biochemical, and molecular basis of fruit response to disease and coordination of growth and tolerance. The main topics include, but are not limited to:
- New fungal and oomycete resistance genes, proteins and natural compounds;
- Hormone homeostasis and signaling in disease response;
- Fruit defense mechanisms.
Prof. Dr. Yue Ma
Dr. Krishna Puri
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- fruit
- disease resistance
- phytohormone
- transcriptional regulation
- post-translation modification
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