The Role of Plant Disease Resistance in Sustainable Agriculture
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2017) | Viewed by 30316
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Global population is projected to reach approximately 10 billion by 2050. In order to feed and support this growing population we must improve agricultural productivity. Perhaps even more challenging is agricultural productivity must increase in a sustainable way within the context of rapid global climate change and an increasing trend of urbanization. Plant diseases caused by fungi, bacteria, viruses, oomycetes, worms and insects collectively represent a significant burden to crop production. Conventional breeding programs and the development of disease resistance crops are expected to play a large role in securing agriculture production. Over the past few decades, we have gained a great deal of knowledge regarding the molecular mechanisms of plant disease resistance against different pathogens. These advancements hold great potential for further trait improvement towards advanced disease resistant crops. However, in order to achieve sustainable agriculture, more interdisciplinary research approaches and translational investigation efforts are needed to address plant diseases.
In this Special Issue spotlighting the role of plant disease resistance in sustainable agriculture, manuscripts (reviews, perspectives, or original articles) are invited to include but are not limited these topics:
- Conventional breeding or GM approaches for achieving food security in the context of plant disease resistance
- The emerging genome editing technologies (ZFN, TALEN and CRISPR/Cas9) for developing disease resistant crops which may or may not be regulated as GM crops
- Translational science on plant disease resistance in the context of global climate change
- Sustainable agriculture practices (including organic farming) under different environments to mitigate plant diseases
- Interplay between plant diseases and other important agriculture traits such as nutrients
- Interplay between biotic stress and abiotic stress in sustainable agriculture
- Plant disease diagnosis, epidemiology surveillance, modeling and control
- Plant disease resistance in agriculture with aspects to extension, ecology or evolution
- Role of plant microbiome in the context of plant disease and crop production
- Role of political and economic policies in mitigating plant diseases in agriculture
Dr. Yiping Qi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Agriculture, Food security
- Plant pathology, plant diseases, pathogens, toxins
- Biotic stresses, abiotic stresses
- Diagnosis, extension, epidemiology surveillance, modeling
- Insecticide, fungicide, herbicide
- Sustainability, farm management
- Postharvest disease and control
- Agronomy, entomology, weed science
- Conventional breeding, GM, genome editing
- Economy, policy