Plant–Microbe–Environment Interactions
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Protection and Biotic Interactions".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2022) | Viewed by 3597
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant-microbe interactions; multitrophic interaction; plant-microbe signaling
Interests: plant microbiome assembly; environmental adaptation; secondary metabolites synthesis; phyllosphere homeostasis; camellia sinensis
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Dear Colleagues,
In the ‘disease triangle’, the classic paradigm of plant pathology, the interaction between host plants and pathogens is well characterized, while the anthropogenic/environmental factors that affect pathogen–plant interactions in agroecosystems remain largely unexplored. Remarkably, emerging evidence also shows that the resident beneficial microbiota function as synergetic components of the innate immunity in their host plants, possibly the untapped subcomponent in the ‘disease triangle’. Revisiting the complex interaction among plants, microbiota (pathogenic, beneficial and commensal microorganisms) and the environment is expected to be carried out for a better understanding of the ‘disease triangle’. Moreover, the aforementioned interaction is also involved in regulating the fitness of plants to abiotic stress (low/high temperature, salinity, anthropogenic contaminants, etc.), despite the fact that the biological functions and regulatory mechanisms employed by beneficial microorganisms, and the genetic regulators used by plants to assemble beneficial microorganisms, are largely unknown. This Special Issue of Plants will highlight plant–microbe–environment interactions, parse the mechanism of plant–microbe interaction and the regulation of microbes on plant growth and stress resistance, reveal the molecular mechanism of pathogenic microorganisms, study the molecular basis of environmental factors affecting pathogenicity and explore how plant genetic regulators determine their selection/recruitment of beneficial microorganisms.
Prof. Dr. Mengcen Wang
Dr. Ping Xu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- plant–microbe–environment interactions
- plant growth and development
- microorganism
- environmental factor
- signal molecule
- disease
- molecular mechanism
- genetic regulator
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