Threats to global food security from emerging fungal and oomycete crop pathogens

HN Fones, DP Bebber, TM Chaloner, WT Kay… - Nature Food, 2020 - nature.com
Emerging fungal and oomycete pathogens infect staple calorie crops and economically
important commodity crops, thereby posing a significant risk to global food security. Our …

Plant–pathogen warfare under changing climate conditions

AC Velásquez, CDM Castroverde, SY He - Current biology, 2018 - cell.com
Global environmental changes caused by natural and human activities have accelerated in
the past 200 years. The increase in greenhouse gases is predicted to continue to raise …

A wheat resistosome defines common principles of immune receptor channels

A Förderer, E Li, AW Lawson, Y Deng, Y Sun… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Plant intracellular nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat receptors (NLRs) detect pathogen
effectors to trigger immune responses. Indirect recognition of a pathogen effector by the …

A review of wheat diseases—a field perspective

M Figueroa, KE Hammond‐Kosack… - Molecular plant …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Wheat is one of the primary staple foods throughout the planet. Significant yield gains in
wheat production over the past 40 years have resulted in a steady balance of supply versus …

Microbial ecology of the atmosphere

T Šantl-Temkiv, P Amato, EO Casamayor… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The atmosphere connects habitats across multiple spatial scales via airborne dispersal of
microbial cells, propagules and biomolecules. Atmospheric microorganisms have been …

[HTML][HTML] Improving global food security through accelerated plant breeding

B Lenaerts, BCY Collard, M Demont - Plant Science, 2019 - Elsevier
With an expected 9 billion people by 2050 and average income on the rise in the developing
world, meeting future food demand will be a challenge. Climate change, urbanisation and …

Enhancing essential grains yield for sustainable food security and bio-safe agriculture through latest innovative approaches

G Albahri, AA Alyamani, A Badran, A Hijazi, M Nasser… - Agronomy, 2023 - mdpi.com
A key concern in agriculture is how to feed the expanding population and safeguard the
environment from the ill effects of climate change. To feed a growing global population, food …

[HTML][HTML] A 2-kb mycovirus converts a pathogenic fungus into a beneficial endophyte for Brassica protection and yield enhancement

H Zhang, J Xie, Y Fu, J Cheng, Z Qu, Z Zhao, S Cheng… - Molecular plant, 2020 - cell.com
Mycoviruses are viruses that infect fungi, and hypovirulence-associated mycoviruses have
the potential to control fungal diseases. However, it is unclear how mycovirus-mediated …

Crops that feed the world 10. Past successes and future challenges to the role played by wheat in global food security

B Shiferaw, M Smale, HJ Braun, E Duveiller… - Food security, 2013 - Springer
Wheat is fundamental to human civilization and has played an outstanding role in feeding a
hungry world and improving global food security. The crop contributes about 20% of the total …

Emergence and spread of new races of wheat stem rust fungus: continued threat to food security and prospects of genetic control

RP Singh, DP Hodson, Y Jin, ES Lagudah… - …, 2015 - Am Phytopath Society
Race Ug99 (TTKSK) of Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici, detected in Uganda in 1998, has been
recognized as a serious threat to food security because it possesses combined virulence to …