New Insights into Pest and Disease Control in Rice
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Pest and Disease Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 February 2025 | Viewed by 113
Special Issue Editors
Interests: brown planthopper resistance in rice
Interests: plant–pathogen interaction and spatial resistance
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Rice is one of the world’s most important staple foods; rice crops are seriously threatened by many pests and diseases that cause an annual yield loss of 37%. Such losses are caused by more than 20 species of insects and more than 100 diseases caused by bacteria, viruses, and fungi. Losses may also be caused by other living organisms including rats, birds, nematodes, weeds, and golden apple snails. Over the past 30 years, impressive advancements have been achieved in the integrated management of rice pests and diseases, including the discovery of resistance genes; the breeding of resistant varieties; the application of green pesticides and fungicides; bio-control, bio-stimulus, and nanomolecules; and precise control and intelligent monitoring systems, among others. This Special Issue will collate work by scientific researchers who are interested in the control of rice pests and diseases. We thus encourage the submission of research articles and reviews concerning novel strategies, technologies, and perspectives related to pest and disease control in rice.
Prof. Dr. Rongzhi Chen
Prof. Dr. Zhaohui Chu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- IPM
- disease resistance
- pest management
- weed control
- bio-control
- biostimulators
- nanotechnology
- intelligent monitoring
- remote sensing
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Title: Unconventional Aspects of T3SEs Virulence in Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzicola: Manipulating Equivalent Rice Defense Signaling Pathway for Invasion
Authors: Nawei Tan; Yechao Huang; Weiguo Miao; Qingxia Zhang; Tao Wu
Affiliation: College of Plant Protection, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China
Abstract: The rice-Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzicola (Xoc) and rice-Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo) are commonly used rice models of host-pathogen interactions. Xoc, which causes bacterial leaf streak (BLS) and has quarantine status, is similar to Xoo, which causes bacterial blight (BB). These two Gram-negative pathogens usually employ type III secretion effectors (T3SEs), including transcription activator-like effectors (TALEs) and non-TALEs, to interfere with the innate immunity of rice. However, the invasion pathways and characteristics of the diseases caused by Xoc and by Xoo are different. More than 40 BB resistance (R) genes and many R-Avr interactions between rice and Xoo are identified; however, only Rxo1-AvrRxo1 and Xo1-TALEs interactions have been discovered in rice-Xoc. In this review, we focus on the role of the T3S system (T3SS) in Xoc virulence and consider the reported non-TALEs including AvrRxo1, AvrBs2, XopN, XopC2, XopAP and XopAK, as well as TALEs including Tal2g/Tal5d, Tal2h, Tal2a, Tal7, TalI, Tal2b and Tal2c. Interestingly, AvrRxo1, XopC2 and XopAP disturb stomatal opening to promote infection through targeting diverse signaling pathways in rice. It is not unique, Tal2b (Tal9b in Xoo) and Tal2c activate rice isoenzymes of salicylic acid (SA) hydroxylation to redundantly suppress basal defense, and TalI suppresses the SA signaling pathway, with unknown targets in rice. In addition, other Xoc virulence factors are discussed. In conclusion, several T3SEs from Xoc interfere with similar defense pathways in rice to achieve invasion, providing an outlook for the control of this disease through manipulating the conserved pathways.
