About this Research Topic
Assemblages of host-specific microbiomes play important roles in immune systems and multiple processes of plant growth and development. Recruitments of beneficial rhizosphere or root-endosphere microbes through a "cry for help" strategy are reported in many host plants and soil-borne pathogen disease systems. Fusarium wilt disease (FWD), for example, is a typical soil-borne disease often caused by the Fusarium oxysporum species complex (FOSC), that attacks a wide variety of economically important crops, including banana, and Solanaceae plants (e.g., tomato, eggplant, and chili pepper). In recent years, researchers pay more attention to microbiomes in non-soil-borne diseases. For instance, citrus can "cry for help" from Sphingomonas spp. to respond to the infection of Diaporthe citri. However, the microbiome assembly and functions in the below- and aboveground compartments such as the phyllosphere in response to the invasion of pathogens in non-soil-borne disease systems is not clear. Understanding these ecological processes will have the potential to manage these diseases via the modulation of plant microbiomes.
The goal of this Research Topic is to discuss the functions of plant microbiomes in the development of non-soil-borne disease, with a particular focus on the pathogen with a stage of latent infection in host plants such as Colletotrichum spp.
Authors are invited to submit high-quality manuscripts on themes that include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Phyllosphere-associated microbiome in the leaf disease model
- Microbiome in fruit and post-harvest disease model
- Seed-associated microbiome in the seed-borne disease model
- The effect of control strategies such as fungicidal applications on microbiome assembly and functions
- Plant disease diagnostics and management through microbiome techniques
The goal of this Research Topic is to discuss the functions of plant microbiomes in the development of non-soil-borne disease, with a particular focus on the pathogen with a stage of latent infection in host plants such as Colletotrichum spp.
Authors are invited to submit high-quality manuscripts on themes that include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Phyllosphere-associated microbiome in the leaf disease model
- Microbiome in fruit and post-harvest disease model
- Seed-associated microbiome in the seed-borne disease model
- The effect of control strategies such as fungicidal applications on microbiome assembly and functions
- Plant disease diagnostics and management through microbiome techniques
Keywords: Microbiome, non-soil-borne disease, latent infection, post-harvest disease, seed-borne disease, phyllosphere
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