One of most important challenges in plant breeding is improving resistance to the plethora of
pathogens that threaten our crops. The ever-growing world population, changing pathogen …

The development of durable host resistance strategies to control crop diseases is a primary
need for sustainable agricultural production in the future. This article highlights the potential …

Activation of local and systemic plant defences in response to pathogen attack involves
dramatic cellular reprogramming. Over the past 10 years many novel genes, proteins and …

Wild plants and their associated pathogens are involved in ongoing interactions over
millennia that have been modified by coevolutionary processes to limit the spatial extent and …

Plant diseases represent a major constraint on agricultural production. Finding sustainable
novel means for their control is an important challenge. The ever‐increasing knowledge and …

▪ Abstract Natural and agricultural ecosystems harbor a wide variety of microorganisms that
play an integral role in plant health, crop productivity, and preservation of multiple …

To address food security, agricultural yields must increase to match the growing human
population in the near future. There is now a strong push to develop low-input and more …

Plants and their pathogens are engaged in continuous evolutionary battles and sustainable
disease management requires novel systems to create environments conducive for short …

Effective and sustained control of fungal pathogens and nematodes is an important issue for
all agricultural systems. Global losses caused by pathogens are estimated to be 12% of the …

Plant disease control is entering an exciting period during which transgenic plants showing
improved resistance to pathogenic viruses, bacteria, fungi and insects are being developed …