Signal Transduction Mechanism in Plant Disease and Immunity: 2nd Edition
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Plant Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2025 | Viewed by 2282
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant immunity; phytohormones; pesticides
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Interests: plant immunity; phytohormone; pesticide; resistance gene; receptor
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Dear Colleagues,
Plants have various types of relationships with microbes, namely pathogenic, non-pathogenic, and symbiotic, within most parts of the plant body. Among those, protection from pathogen invasion is important to survive, so plants have developed unique self-defense systems which act at the infection site and other parts to defend plants from further pathogen attacks. Those self-defense systems are regulated by signal transduction, mainly initiated by the recognition of pathogenic infection, and operate many types of defense mechanisms against pathogens. These signaling mechanisms comprise various intra- and intercellular events, such as the synthesis and perception of signaling molecules, gene expression, protein modification, protein–protein interaction, synthesis, and the accumulation of bioactive molecules, amongst others. On the other hand, some pathogens successfully infect plants by overcoming or disturbing and hijacking signal transduction in the plant immune system. Understanding these mechanisms of plant disease development and plant self-defense systems against pathogens is very important not only for basic knowledge of plant physiology but also to control diseases in agriculture.
This Special Issue focuses on recent advances in mechanism research on signal transduction in plant disease development and plant defense systems. In addition to basic research at the molecular levels, research for future applied research and technology, including agrochemicals and genetical modifications, will also be considered.
As the first volume of this Special Issue, titled “Signal Transduction Mechanism in Plant Disease and Immunity”, was successful, we have chosen to reopen this Special Issue in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijms, ISSN 1422-0067, IF 5.6, JCR Category Q1). The second volume of this Special Issue, titled “Signal Transduction Mechanism in Plant Disease and Immunity 2nd Edition”, welcomes the submission of original manuscripts and review articles addressing this pressing topic.
Dr. Hideo Nakashita
Dr. Takumi Nishiuchi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- plant disease resistance
- biotic stress
- pathogen
- plant-microbe interaction
- priming
- signal transduction
- phytohormone
- proteomics
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