Plant Control of Symbiotic Microbe Behavior and Reproduction 2.0
A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Microbe Interactions".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 11053
Special Issue Editors
Interests: microbial endophytes of plants; rhizophagy cycle; plant defensive symbioses; plant nutritional symbioses
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Interests: abiotic and biotic stress; bio-inoculants; endophytic bacteria; microbiome modulation; nutrient-transfer symbiosis; reactive oxygen species
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Interests: singlet molecular oxygen; hydrogen peroxide; hydroperoxides; oxygen reactive species (ROS); plant microbiome; plant-microbe-ROS interactions;-plant-microbe-ROS (patho)physiology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is the continuation of our previous Special Issue "Plant Control of Symbiotic Microbe Behavior and Reproduction".
Plants are hosts to numerous microbes (mutualists, pathogens and saprobes) on and within their tissues. It is becoming increasingly clear that these associations are not mere chance interactions between plants and microbes, but rather are functional interactions under host selection, control, and regulation. Host plants select microbes that they will permit to enter into their tissues, then they cultivate them, controlling their behaviors and regulating their numbers. Collaboration with microbes is one of the key ways that plants interface with the environment to obtain nutrients and defend themselves from biotic and abiotic stresses and plants rely on microbes to modulate plant development. Since intimate association with microbes that enter into plant tissues is "playing with fire" in the sense that microbes retain a parasitic capacity, the virulence and reproduction of endophytic microbes must be managed by the host plant. In this topic, we will explore the functions of microbes in plant tissues and the ways that plant hosts select and manage the microbes in their tissues.
Prof. Dr. James White
Prof. Dr. Miguel J. Beltrán-García
Prof. Dr. Paolo Di Mascio
Guest Editors
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