About this Research Topic
Phytopathogenic microbes such as fungi, bacteria, viruses, and nematodes pose significant threats to global food security by compromising plant health and reducing crop yields. Traditional methods of disease management often rely on the extensive use of chemical fungicides, which can have harmful effects on the environment and human health. Consequently, there is an urgent need to develop sustainable strategies for enhancing plant resilience to phytopathogenic microbes. While most research has focused on plant responses to abiotic stresses, understanding of plant resilience to phytopathogenic microbes and host-pathogen interactions remains limited. Plants respond to these pathogens using multifarious and interlinked adaptive mechanisms. Understanding the physiological, biochemical, and molecular mechanisms underlying plant defense responses and harnessing this knowledge for breeding programs holds great promise for sustainable agriculture.
This research topic aims to explore innovative approaches to enhance plant resilience to different phytopathogens through a multidisciplinary approach encompassing genetics, molecular biology, biotechnology, and agronomy. By elucidating key signaling pathways and regulatory networks involved in host-pathogen interactions, as well as plant defense responses, the goal is to identify potential targets for genetic manipulation to improve crop resistance to different phytopathogens. Additionally, this research topic seeks to highlight novel sustainable biotechnological interventions, such as genetic engineering and biocontrol agents, to mitigate plant diseases and enhance crop productivity.
To gather further insights into enhancing plant resistance and resilience to phytopathogenic microbes, we welcome articles addressing, but not limited to, the following themes:
- Molecular tools and biotechnological approaches for engineering crop plants with enhanced resistance to phytopathogenic microbes
- Genetic transformation techniques, gene editing technologies, transcriptomic and proteomic analyses of various plant species upon infection with different phytopathogens
- Physiological, biochemical, and molecular responses of different crops and horticultural plants to phytopathogenic microbes
- Integrated pest and disease management
- Multi-omics and their role in plant survival and adaptation under pathogen infection
- Role of primary and secondary metabolites in enhancing plant resilience to phytopathogenic microbes
- Bio-based compounds and their role in plant response to phytopathogens
- Enhancing plant resilience to phytopathogenic microbes: from genome to metabolome
This research topic aims to explore innovative approaches to enhance plant resilience to different phytopathogens through a multidisciplinary approach encompassing genetics, molecular biology, biotechnology, and agronomy. By elucidating key signaling pathways and regulatory networks involved in host-pathogen interactions, as well as plant defense responses, the goal is to identify potential targets for genetic manipulation to improve crop resistance to different phytopathogens. Additionally, this research topic seeks to highlight novel sustainable biotechnological interventions, such as genetic engineering and biocontrol agents, to mitigate plant diseases and enhance crop productivity.
To gather further insights into enhancing plant resistance and resilience to phytopathogenic microbes, we welcome articles addressing, but not limited to, the following themes:
- Molecular tools and biotechnological approaches for engineering crop plants with enhanced resistance to phytopathogenic microbes
- Genetic transformation techniques, gene editing technologies, transcriptomic and proteomic analyses of various plant species upon infection with different phytopathogens
- Physiological, biochemical, and molecular responses of different crops and horticultural plants to phytopathogenic microbes
- Integrated pest and disease management
- Multi-omics and their role in plant survival and adaptation under pathogen infection
- Role of primary and secondary metabolites in enhancing plant resilience to phytopathogenic microbes
- Bio-based compounds and their role in plant response to phytopathogens
- Enhancing plant resilience to phytopathogenic microbes: from genome to metabolome
Keywords: plant resistance, phytopathogenic microbes, biotic stress, viruses, fungi, nematodes, plant defense responses
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