aBIOTECH - Special Issue "Plant-Microbe Interactions"
Plant disease outbreaks have greatly reduced crop yields and significantly affect global food security in the recent years. Deep understanding of plant-microbe interactions is critical for developing novel strategies for disease control and reducing crop losses.
Drs. Guo-Liang Wang, Wende Liu and Suomeng Dong are organizing a special issue on Plant-Microbe Interactions for aBIOTECH.
We would like to invite you to contribute a research or review article in the following areas:
- Molecular basis of the interaction between plants and pathogens.
- How the plant immune system orchestrates the interactions with beneficial microbes and pathogens.
- Molecular mechanisms of regulating colonization, pathogen inhibition and induced systemic resistance by microbial interactions.
- The reorganization, improvement and construction of plant beneficial microbes.
- The influence of abiotic stresses on plant-microbe interactions.
- Role of phytohormones in plant disease resistance and susceptibility.
- Novel molecular and genomic tools for the study of plant-microbe/microbiome interactions and engineering of broad-spectrum resistance.
- Functions and molecular regulatory mechanisms of epigenetic modifications in defense responses against pathogens in plants.
- Structure-function analysis of immune receptors and key signaling components.
- Novel function of pathogen effectors in the suppression of host immunity.
- Emerging and re-emerging plant diseases.
Submission deadline: November 1, 2023
Please submit your manuscript here (this opens in a new tab)
If you have any questions about the special issue, please feel free to contact the special issue editors:
Dr. Guo-Liang Wang (The Ohio State University, USA)
Dr. Wende Liu (Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China)
Dr. Suomeng Dong (Nanjing Agricultural University, China)
The journal follows the peer review policy (this opens in a new tab) of aBIOTECH for the special issue submissions.