Filamentous plant pathogens, such as fungi and oomycetes, cause diverse and devastating diseases resulting in serious threat to crops worldwide. Currently, plant disease control mainly depends on chemical pesticides and host resistance, however, filamentous plant pathogens are often able to overcome the plant resistance (R) genes and develop resistance to pesticides quickly.
Many aspects of the infection mechanisms of filamentous plant pathogens and their and interaction with host plants still remains to be elucidated. Understanding the infection process and pathogenic mechanisms of filamentous plant pathogens, and the interactions between pathogens and their host plants is helpful to establish new disease control strategy. Although, biocontrol of plant diseases has always been an active field in disease control, there are still many gaps in our current understanding that need to be filled.
This topic aims to collect the recent scientific achievements on the interaction of filamentous plant pathogens and their hosts or biocontrol agents, including infection process, effector proteins and PAMPs of pathogens, host immune responses, new mode of biocontrol actions, and interactions with biocontrol agents.
We welcome the submissions of Original Research Articles, Reviews, and Methods related to, but not limited to, the following topics:
• Investigation of filamentous plant pathogen diversity, population, or evolution
• Functional study of pathogenesis-related genes or effectors.
• Discovery of mechanisms in plant-pathogen interactions.
• Mode action and application of biocontrol agents to control plant diseases.
• Identification and role of effectors and PAMPs in the filamentous pathogen
• Plant immune responses and resistance against filamentous plant pathogens
• Role of secondary metabolites and biocontrol agents in plant-pathogen interactions
• Interactions between filamentous plant pathogens and biocontrol agents
Conflict on interest statement: Dr. Ryan Kessens has previously published a patent as a scientist at AmebaGone (Publication number: 20200397003) covering the use of dictyostelid amoeba as bioncontrols for bacterial pathogens of crops.
Filamentous plant pathogens, such as fungi and oomycetes, cause diverse and devastating diseases resulting in serious threat to crops worldwide. Currently, plant disease control mainly depends on chemical pesticides and host resistance, however, filamentous plant pathogens are often able to overcome the plant resistance (R) genes and develop resistance to pesticides quickly.
Many aspects of the infection mechanisms of filamentous plant pathogens and their and interaction with host plants still remains to be elucidated. Understanding the infection process and pathogenic mechanisms of filamentous plant pathogens, and the interactions between pathogens and their host plants is helpful to establish new disease control strategy. Although, biocontrol of plant diseases has always been an active field in disease control, there are still many gaps in our current understanding that need to be filled.
This topic aims to collect the recent scientific achievements on the interaction of filamentous plant pathogens and their hosts or biocontrol agents, including infection process, effector proteins and PAMPs of pathogens, host immune responses, new mode of biocontrol actions, and interactions with biocontrol agents.
We welcome the submissions of Original Research Articles, Reviews, and Methods related to, but not limited to, the following topics:
• Investigation of filamentous plant pathogen diversity, population, or evolution
• Functional study of pathogenesis-related genes or effectors.
• Discovery of mechanisms in plant-pathogen interactions.
• Mode action and application of biocontrol agents to control plant diseases.
• Identification and role of effectors and PAMPs in the filamentous pathogen
• Plant immune responses and resistance against filamentous plant pathogens
• Role of secondary metabolites and biocontrol agents in plant-pathogen interactions
• Interactions between filamentous plant pathogens and biocontrol agents
Conflict on interest statement: Dr. Ryan Kessens has previously published a patent as a scientist at AmebaGone (Publication number: 20200397003) covering the use of dictyostelid amoeba as bioncontrols for bacterial pathogens of crops.