Recent Scientific Developments in Forest Pathology
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2025 | Viewed by 2658
Special Issue Editor
Interests: phytoplasma disease; molecular identification; classification; phylogeny; marker genes; forest plants; small fruit crops; insect vectors
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Dear Colleagues,
Forest plant ecosystems are economically important for the timber industry, food industry (wild berries), pharmacy (medicine plants), etc. Plant–pathogenic fungi, phytophthoras, bacteria (including phytoplasmas) and viruses can cause serious plant diseases, affecting natural ecosystems and plant biodiversity. These pathogenic microorganisms can be spread from wild forest plants to agricultural plants and vice versa via various mechanisms, including insect vectors and vegetative reproductions and propagations. Furthermore, global warming introduces insects and diseases to new geographic locations. Pathogenic microbes are identified via isolation in vitro and molecular tools (PGR, phylogenetic analysis, ELISA, etc.). Recent scientific developments include metagenomic microbiome investigations via next-generation throughput sequencing and bioinformatics. Furthermore, new environmentally friendly sustainable disease control methods are being developed, including biological control agents (BCAs). The most investigated pathogens are causing symptomatic diseases in agricultural and other economically important plants. However, many pathogens remain understudied, including uncultivable in vitro the Candidatus species in wild forests.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Forest pathology: diseases of forest plants, including trees, shrubs, wild pome, stone, small fruit, nuts, medicine plants and other wild forest herbal plants;
- Urban forests and diseases;
- Forest entomology: insect vectors;
- Diseases and forest ecology, management and restoration;
- Diseases and climate change impacts, adaptation and mitigation in forests.
Dr. Deividas Valiunas
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- identification of forest plant diseases and causing microbes
- phylogenetic analysis of forest pathogens
- plant microbiome and microbiota
- forest trees, shrubs and fruit plants
- forest medicine, herbal plants
- insect vectors, biocontrol and disease management
- climate change and diseases
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