About this Research Topic
Under this topic, we will address the extent of advances, highlighting initiatives and demonstrating applications of cutting-edge molecular and omics tools to further our understanding of the biology, ecology, and management of forest pests and pathogens under increasingly challenging abiotic conditions. This article collection aims to address the potential that these advances have for pest and pathogen population manipulation and forest protection.
This Research Topic aims to bring together relevant scientific contributions on omics-based approaches used for revealing unknown facts about forest pests and pathogens and their interactions under climate change challenges.
Topics may include, but are by no means limited to:
- Genome initiatives of forest pests and pathogens
- Transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics on host- pest-pathogen interactions
- Metagenomic, metatranscriptomic and metaproteomic studies explaining symbiotic interactions in the forest ecosystem
- Characterizing genes that can be targeted in future forest pest and pathogen management
- Tree defence against forest pests and pathogens
- Molecular tools such as RNAi as forest protection products.
Keywords: Forest pest, Pathogen, Omics, Symbiosis, RNA-interference
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