Signal Transduction Pathways in Plants for Resistance against Plant Pathogens 2022
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: closed (31 July 2023) | Viewed by 3682
Special Issue Editor
2. Institute of Environment, Energy and Sustainability, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Interests: climate-smart and sustainable agriculture; plant and agricultural biotechnology; genomic studies on crop–environment interaction
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Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is the continuation of our previous special issue "Signal Transduction Pathways in Plants for Resistance against Plant Pathogens 2020".
Pathogens could severely limit plant growth and hence pose a severe threat to crop productivity. The co-evolutionary war between plants and their pathogens has led to the development of complex signaling systems in plants, enabling them to sense the presence of both compatible and incompatible pathogens and trigger their defense systems precisely and promptly. This Special Issue explores the signal transduction pathways in plants that led to resistance against pathogens, including, but not limited to, functional analysis of qualitative and quantitation resistance genes, defense mechanisms, plant-pathogen interactions, and signal transduction crosstalk.
Prof. Dr. Hon-Ming Lam
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- plant defense
- plant immunity
- plant pathogens
- plant-microbe interaction
- plant signal transduction
- resistance genes
- avirulence genes
- signaling crosstalk
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