Fusarium spp. and Plants
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2020) | Viewed by 7394
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant disease management in vegetable and field crops; soilborne and seedborne fungal pathogens; Fusarium diseases; innovative disease management for sustainable agricultural production
Interests: bacterial and fungal microbiomes of vegetable and field crops; endophytes for plant disease resistance and stress tolerance; seedborne bacteria and fungi; plant microbiome management via microbial inoculants and plant breeding; Fusarium in maize
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Fusarium consists of a diverse and economically important set of fungal species that affect a wide range of crop hosts globally. Although phytopathogenic Fusarium species have been subjected to investigations for many years, this genus still remains a critical economic challenge in cropping systems across the globe, and its impact will likely increase as the global climate continues to change. This Special Issue of Plants will highlight unusual Fusarium diseases, novel management strategies, phylogenetic studies of anamorphic Fusarium in cropping systems, interactions between pathogenic Fusarium and the plant microbiome in cropping systems, secondary metabolites and the ecology and evolution of plant-pathogenic Fusarium species, classifying Fusarium as an endophyte vs. a latent pathogen, and the documentation of the linkage between Fusarium disease outbreaks and climate change.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Cynthia M. Ocamb
Dr. Lucas Nebert
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Fusarium
- epidemiology
- disease management
- phylogenetic relatedness
- crop microbiome
- climate change
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