New Advances in Molecular Approaches for Rice Disease Control
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Pest and Disease Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2025 | Viewed by 10
Special Issue Editors
Interests: rice; disease resistance; gene cloning
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Interests: rice, wheat, strawberry and tomato diseases; integrated disease management; plant-pathogen interactions, genetic mapping, and GWAS; RNA-seq analysis; genotyping-by-sequencing, and plant microbiomes
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Interests: disease resistance cloning; dissecting molecular mechanism; disease genetic network regulation; gene pyramiding molecular breeding
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Rice is a major crop that feeds over half of the world population. One of the main limiting factors of rice production is disease; outbreaks cause severe losses globally. Breeding disease-resistant rice varieties is one of the best options to combat these disease outbreaks. In recent years, great achievements have been made in the genetic and molecular mechanisms of disease resistance in rice. Identification of a large number of disease resistance genes and susceptibility genes provides abundant genetic resources for the cultivation of broad-spectrum resistant varieties. In-depth analysis of the molecular mechanism of rice–pathogen interaction can provide new ideas for the molecular improvement in rice disease resistance and the development of targeted pesticides. Research progress in both basic and systemic resistance is creating a more complete view of the entire disease resistance process. The mining of endogenous signaling molecules and exogenous elicitors for rice resistance can provide new resources for the development of induced resistance biopesticides. Innovation in pathogen inoculation and rice disease resistance breeding technology will help to accelerate the process of breeding new disease-resistant varieties.
This Special Issue aims to highlight new findings and the utilization of molecular research on approaches for disease control in rice.
Dr. Qunen Liu
Dr. Tika Adhikari
Dr. Yongbo Hong
Dr. Liyong Cao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- resistance genes
- susceptibility genes
- PTI
- ETI
- SAR
- IS
- genome editing
- pathogen inoculation
- metabolites
- elicitors
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