The yield potential, production and quality of oilseed crops (e.g., rapeseed, groundnut, castor, soybean, and sunflower) world-globally is limited by the threat of various diseases. Generally, oilseed crops will acquire systemic resistance and initiate defense response through PTI and ETI when facing these diseases. In this process, oilseed crops induce and regulate the synthesis of resistance-related metabolites, resistance proteins, defense genes and other biomolecular products. Signal molecules such as JA and SA facilitate this interaction between oilseed crops and pathogens. This process like war is extremely fierce and complex. Whether the host wins or the pathogen often depends on who has acquired new defensive or offensive "weapons" in the process of evolution.
Among all methods of managing diseases in oilseed crops, breeding resistant varieties is the most economical and environmentally friendly. The premise is to obtain durable and effective resistance genes or loci. However, pathogens often escape host resistance by mutating to produce new pathogenic subspecies. For example, the pathogen causing Clubroot has multiple pathogenic physiological races, but no single R gene confers resistance to all of them. Other pathogens utilize proteins to bypass plant defense systems. Recently, SsPINE1 was found to enhance necrotrophic virulence of S. sclerotiorum by specifically interacting with host PGIPs to negate their polygalacturonase-inhibiting function via enhanced dissociation of PGIPs from PGs. Therefore, it is necessary to explore the proteins, genes or other biomolecules that play a role in the interaction between oilseed crops and pathogens. The mechanism of these biomolecules participating in host-pathogen interaction should be analyzed. It will provide a new strategy for disease resistance breeding of oilseed crops.
This Research Topic welcomes review articles and original research articles that address new findings and current knowledge about oilseed crops resistance to pathogens. This will cover areas such as:
• Natural resistance of oilseed crops
• How pathogens manipulate the oilseed crops to cause disease
• Resistance and defense genes
• Genes and regulatory networks responsible for host-pathogen interactions
• Breeding and new breeding technologies for durable plant resistance
• Signaling pathways related to resistance
• New pathogens in oil crops.
The yield potential, production and quality of oilseed crops (e.g., rapeseed, groundnut, castor, soybean, and sunflower) world-globally is limited by the threat of various diseases. Generally, oilseed crops will acquire systemic resistance and initiate defense response through PTI and ETI when facing these diseases. In this process, oilseed crops induce and regulate the synthesis of resistance-related metabolites, resistance proteins, defense genes and other biomolecular products. Signal molecules such as JA and SA facilitate this interaction between oilseed crops and pathogens. This process like war is extremely fierce and complex. Whether the host wins or the pathogen often depends on who has acquired new defensive or offensive "weapons" in the process of evolution.
Among all methods of managing diseases in oilseed crops, breeding resistant varieties is the most economical and environmentally friendly. The premise is to obtain durable and effective resistance genes or loci. However, pathogens often escape host resistance by mutating to produce new pathogenic subspecies. For example, the pathogen causing Clubroot has multiple pathogenic physiological races, but no single R gene confers resistance to all of them. Other pathogens utilize proteins to bypass plant defense systems. Recently, SsPINE1 was found to enhance necrotrophic virulence of S. sclerotiorum by specifically interacting with host PGIPs to negate their polygalacturonase-inhibiting function via enhanced dissociation of PGIPs from PGs. Therefore, it is necessary to explore the proteins, genes or other biomolecules that play a role in the interaction between oilseed crops and pathogens. The mechanism of these biomolecules participating in host-pathogen interaction should be analyzed. It will provide a new strategy for disease resistance breeding of oilseed crops.
This Research Topic welcomes review articles and original research articles that address new findings and current knowledge about oilseed crops resistance to pathogens. This will cover areas such as:
• Natural resistance of oilseed crops
• How pathogens manipulate the oilseed crops to cause disease
• Resistance and defense genes
• Genes and regulatory networks responsible for host-pathogen interactions
• Breeding and new breeding technologies for durable plant resistance
• Signaling pathways related to resistance
• New pathogens in oil crops.
