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The Role of Plant Disease Resistance in Sustainable Agriculture
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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 30128

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Yiping Qi

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Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA

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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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Agriculture is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

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

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Fusarium Wilt Affecting Chickpea Crop
by Warda Jendoubi, Mariem Bouhadida, Amal Boukteb, Mohamed Béji and Mohamed Kharrat
Agriculture 2017, 7(3), 23; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture7030023 - 09 Mar 2017
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Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) contributes 18% of the global production of grain legume and serves as an important source of dietary protein. An important decrease in cropping area and production has been recorded during the last two decades. Several biotic and abiotic constraints [...] Read more.
Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) contributes 18% of the global production of grain legume and serves as an important source of dietary protein. An important decrease in cropping area and production has been recorded during the last two decades. Several biotic and abiotic constraints underlie this decrease. Despite the efforts deployed in breeding and selection of several chickpea varieties with high yield potential that are tolerant to diseases, the situation has remained the same for the last decade. Fusarium wilt caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceris (Foc) is the major soilborne fungus affecting chickpeas globally. Fusarium wilt epidemics can devastate crops and cause up to 100% loss in highly infested fields and under favorable conditions. To date, eight pathogenic races of Foc (races 0, 1A, 1B/C, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6) have been reported worldwide. The development of resistant cultivars is the most effective method to manage this disease and to contribute to stabilizing chickpea yields. Development of resistant varieties to fusarium wilt in different breeding programs is mainly based on conventional selection. This method is time‐consuming and depends on inoculum load and specific environmental factors that influence disease development. The use of molecular tools offers great potential for chickpea improvement, specifically by identifying molecular markers closely linked to genes/QTLs controlling fusarium wilt. Full article
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Current Advances in Genomics and Breeding of Leaf Chicory (Cichorium intybus L.)
by Gianni Barcaccia, Andrea Ghedina and Margherita Lucchin
Agriculture 2016, 6(4), 50; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture6040050 - 08 Oct 2016
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This review gives an overview of agricultural topics on a non-model species, in other words, leaf chicory. Often classified as a minor crop, “Radicchio”, the Italian name of leaf chicory, is assuming a very important role at both a local and national level, [...] Read more.
This review gives an overview of agricultural topics on a non-model species, in other words, leaf chicory. Often classified as a minor crop, “Radicchio”, the Italian name of leaf chicory, is assuming a very important role at both a local and national level, as it characterizes a high proportion of the agricultural income of suited areas. Botanical classification along the genus Cichorium is reported and a detailed description of the most important cultivated biotypes typical of northern Italy is presented. A special consideration is reserved to breeding aspects, from molecular marker-assisted selection to the implementation of the first genome draft and leaf transcriptomes. Sexual barriers, for example, self-incompatibility or male-sterility, are described in great detail with the aim to be utilized for breeding purposes. The main aspects of seed production are also critically presented. In conclusion, the present work is a sort of handbook to better understand this orphan crop and it is mainly directed to breeders and seed producers dealing with leaf chicory. Full article
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