Pathogens and pests are a major challenge to global food security. Around one hundred
different pests and pathogens challenge wheat, one of the most important food crops in the …

Anthropocene marks the era when human activity is making a significant impact on earth, its
ecological and biogeographical systems. The domestication and intensification of …

Due to the global warming and dynamic changes in pathogenic virulence, leaf rust caused
by Puccinia triticina has greatly expanded its epidermic region and become a severe threat …

Southern corn rust (SCR), which is a destructive disease caused by Puccinia polysora
Underw.(P. polysora), commonly occurs in warm‐temperate and tropical regions. To identify …

Key message A stable QTL QPm. caas-3BS for adult-plant resistance to powdery mildew
was mapped in an interval of 431 kb, and candidate genes were predicted based on gene …

Breeding for disease resistance against microbial pathogens is essential for food security in
modern agriculture. Conventional breeding, although widely accepted, is time consuming …

A key component in the management of many diseases of crops is the use of plant disease
resistance genes. However, the discovery and then sequence identification of these plant …

Plant synthetic biology is a rapidly emerging field that aims to engineer genetic circuits to
function in plants with the same reliability and precision as electronic circuits. These circuits …

Background Bakanae disease, caused by seed-borne Fusarium species, mainly F. fujikuroi,
is a rice disease whose importance is considerably increasing in several rice growing …

ATP binding cassette (ABC) transporters, types C, G, and B were monitored via qPCR in
order to investigate the influence of heavy metal (HM) contamination of post-industrial and …