Plant Pathogen Interactions: 3nd Edition
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Plant Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025
Special Issue Editor
Interests: plant disease triangle; glucosinolate metabolism; guard cell signal transduction
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Dear Colleagues,
Plant pathogens represent a significant threat to agricultural systems, causing major damage to the food industry worldwide. Pathogens are constantly adapting to evade or suppress plant defense responses to cause disease. Despite this, plants have evolved to use sophisticated approaches to recognize and restrict the pathogen to the infection site. A unique and intimate association between plants and pathogens is created as they are in a constant arms race to coexist or compete for survival in nature. Deciphering how plant–pathogen interactions are established is not only an essential aspect of plant pathology but also extremely important for crop improvement, sustainability, and global food security.
This Special Issue, entitled “Plant Pathogen Interactions: 3nd Edition”, welcomes the submission of original research and review articles that present recent advances in the field, with a focus on, but not limited to, the molecular mechanisms underlining disease progression, effector biology, plant immunity, and virulence factors. New molecular approaches or tools, including omics or multi-omics, to studying plant–pathogen interactions are also welcome to be submitted.
Prof. Dr. Sixue Chen
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- pathogenicity
- plant immunity
- pattern-triggered immunity (PTI)
- effector-triggered immunity (ETI)
- effectors
- avirulent
- virulent
- biotroph
- necrotrophy
- interactions
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