It is my pleasure to write a foreword for the book entitled Biotechnological Advances for
Disease Tolerance in Plants. To fulfil the food requirement of increasing population …

Plant diseases are responsible for substantial crop losses each year and affect food security
and agricultural sustainability. The improvement of crop resistance to pathogens through …

Approaches to manipulating disease resistance in plants is expanding exponentially due to
advances in our understanding of plant defense mechanisms and new tools for …

Human population is escalating at an enormous pace and is estimated to reach 9.7 billion
by 2050. As a result, there will be an increase in demand for agricultural production by 60 …

Global food security relies on agricultural crops, and their yield is affected by various
phytopathogens. These phytopathogens are prevented by using chemical pesticides that …

Accepted: 22 December 2017, Published: 26 December 2017 Cite this Article: Shehzadi, A.,
Abass, HMK, Ahmed, Z., Saleem, S., 2017. Effect plant disease resistance genes: Recent …

In the natural environment, plants have evolved mechanisms to perceive and respond
effectively to a vast range of biotic stresses. A plant′ s survival depends on efficient …

The field of plant-microbe interactions has seen several recent break-throughs as cloning
and characterization of resistance (R) genes from plants and avirulence (avr) genes from …

Plant's survival is under constant threat due to attacks by several pests and pathogens.
Being sessile, plants cannot evade such attacks but only protect themselves against these …

Genetic Engineering for Disease Resistance in Plants: Recent Progress and Future
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