Recent Trends to Plant Resistance to Insect Pests
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Protection and Biotic Interactions".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 December 2022) | Viewed by 490
Special Issue Editors
Interests: constitutive and induced plant resistance to pests and diseases; plant insect/pathogen interactions; morphological and chemical plant defense traits
Interests: pre-breeding for resistance/tolerance towards biotic stress; plant-pathogen interactions; quantitative genetics
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Dear Colleagues,
Current agricultural systems require the implementation of sustainable control measures to reduce the damage caused by pests. Deployment of resistant cultivars provides an ideal pest control method, given its reduced or null impact on the environment and economic benefits to farmers. Incorporating pest resistance in elite cultivars through breeding is both technically challenging and time-consuming. Next to breeding induction of resistance becomes an important tool in integrated pest management. Current technologies including high-throughput sequencing and phenotyping, gene editing, and the development of unique model systems combined with interdisciplinary research in genetics, behavior, physiology, and biochemistry, provide numerous possibilities to explore interactions between plants and pests in unprecedented detail. Additionally, it provides knowledge and tools to facilitate breeding for future pest-resistant cultivars, as well as practical applications of induced resistance.
In connection with the 25th IPRI workshop (https://ipri25.com/), which will be held between 31 May–2 June 2022 in Malmö, Sweden, we are pleased to announce this call for papers for a Special Issue ‘Recent trends to Insect Pests’. The Special Issue will cover the results of the latest original research related to the topics: 1) plant–arthropod interactions; 2) mechanisms of resistance; 3) breeding for resistance; and 4) phenotyping methodologies.
Dr. Kirsten Leiss
Dr. Therese Bengtsson
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- plant-arthropod Interactions
- plant resistance mechanism
- high-throughput phenotyping
- breeding for pest resistance
- induced pest resistance and its applications
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