Interactions between Crops and Obligate Plant Pathogenic Parasites
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 February 2023) | Viewed by 4256
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Obligate plant pathogenic parasites represent a major restrictive factor in agriculture production and cause huge annual yield losses globally. Applied and basic research efforts have focused on, and made great progress in, identifying effective infection control practices to minimize the spread of pathogenic parasites, and reduce the damage they cause, such as nematodes, viruses, bacteria and fungi. These research efforts have also aimed to dissect the molecular mechanisms underlying the interactions between pathogenic parasites and host plants, to identify resistant targets for infection prevention at the genome, transcriptome, proteome, metabolome, etc., levels.
This Special Issue of Plants welcomes manuscript submissions that address plant–obligate pathogenic parasite interactions, plant resistance against pathogenic parasites, plant disease resistance genes, and disease resistance mechanisms, as well as diagnostic technologies and integrated management strategies to prevent and control plant obligate pathogenic parasites, including biocontrol agents and the rapid and accurate detection of pathogenic parasites for disease forecasting, and prevention and control.
Prof. Dr. Shiming Liu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- plant–obligate pathogenic parasite interactions
- obligate plant pathogenic parasites
- plant germplasm sources conferring resistance to pathogenic parasites
- disease resistance genes
- disease resistance mechanisms
- disease diagnostics
- disease management
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