Sustainable Crop Plants Protection: Implications for Pest and Disease Control
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Agriculture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 March 2023) | Viewed by 23450
Special Issue Editors
Interests: smart-integrated disease management; sustainable land management; machine learning; agrometeorology; drought; soil quality; plant pathology
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: precision agriculture; yield estimation; image analysis; geographic information systems (GIS); modelling; Smart-integrated disease management
Interests: virus diagnosis in tropical crops and disease management; genomics; molecular biological techniques; virology; PCR; virus-host interactions; plant pathology; biotechnology; emerging infectious diseases
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Plant crop diseases have devastating consequences for agriculture, causing losses of up to 30% in some cases. Numerous scientists are currently working on improving resistance to crop diseases by advancing knowledge of the plant immune system, as well as on plant health, the latter encompassing the protection of plants and crops against deadly pests and diseases, the mitigation of the adverse effects of climate change on plant ecosystems, and the transformation of the agricultural sector to feed the world's growing population. In this sense, sustainability is at the heart of all efforts to improve plant health: fighting pests and diseases and increasing crop yields must be achieved without putting further pressure on the environment through the inappropriate use of chemicals. By avoiding the use of hazardous chemicals to combat pests and diseases, not only the environment is protected, but also pollinators, natural enemies of pests, beneficial organisms, and the people and animals that depend on the plants.
This special issue will focus on Sustainable Crop Plants Protection: the timely detection, characterization and identification of diseases and pests for a correct phytosanitary diagnosis, application of phytosanitary and regulatory measures that support sustainable and integrated management and/or control of diseases and pests. We welcome research, reviews and opinion articles with novel findings covering all related topics including (but not limited to): a) Optimization of techniques for detection and identification of pathogenic organisms; b) Integrated pest management in crops of interest, phytosanitary and regulatory measures that help prevent their spread and enable effective and economical control or management strategies; analysis of the interaction of biotic and abiotic factors that influence the generation of phytosanitary problems and epidemiological recognition of pests; c) management of beneficial rhizosphere microorganisms to restore soil fertility and health; use of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in agrosystems; maintenance of native inoculum banks, soil regeneration and management of biological indicators. To this end, this special issue will also address demonstration models of precision agriculture based on hyperspectral vision sensors, drones, autonomous robots and artificial intelligence techniques such as machine learning and big data analytics. Finally, with our editorial work we aim to facilitate the transfer of the knowledge that scientist’s treasure, so that it can reach the broadest base of professionals in the agri-food sector.
Dr. Barlin Orlando Olivares Campos
Dr. Miguel Araya-Alman
Dr. Edgloris E. Marys
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- bacteria
- fungi
- viruses
- disease management
- epidemiology
- inoculum and disease epidemic monitoring
- plant-insect-microbe interactions
- plant resistance
- disease surveillance tools
- smart-integrated disease management
- pest-risk modeling and decision aids