Plant Root Diseases and Integrated Pest Management
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Pest and Disease Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2021) | Viewed by 24531
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With a continuously growing world population (expected to reach over 10 billion by 2050) and increasing consumption and demand for plant-based products, we are facing unprecedented challenges. One of the strategies to tackle this is to improve our agronomy productivity with more efficient crops, higher yields, and reduced crop damage from plant diseases. On a global scale, crop health experts estimate that pathogens and pests are reducing crop yields for the five major food crops by 10%–40%. Moreover, it can be anticipated that climate change will have an impact on the emergence of new pathogens, spread/epidemiology and severity of plant diseases, and associated crop losses. It will also affect disease management with regard to timing, preference, and efficacy. To reduce yield losses in a sustainable way, integrated pest management (IPM) strategies will play a key role, combining early diagnostics, risk assessment, and chemical, physical, and biological measures of disease management.
This Special Issue of Agronomy, entitled “Plant Root Diseases and Integrated Pest Management”, invites submissions covering traditional and well-known as well as emerging plant root diseases and their causative agents (including viruses, bacteria, fungi, oomycetes, and nematodes). Research papers on techniques allowing early diagnostics and the management strategies to tackle plant root diseases, with a particular focus on IPM, are also encouraged. We are also open to transdisciplinary, social, legal, and economic research being submitted, along with the more traditional applied agronomy research.
Dr. Hans Rediers
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- plant root disease
- plant pathogen
- diagnostics and disease monitoring
- biocontrol
- integrated pest management (IPM)
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