About this Research Topic
Understanding the emergence, development, and symptoms of diseases is essential for identifying how different pathogens (viruses, fungi, nematodes, bacteria, etc.) infect and promote local or systematic damage to the host. In nature, resistance is the rule, and disease is the exception. However, in a continuous production area, diseases resulting from low genetic diversity are limiting factors for high productivity in major crops. Using a combination of structural, ultrastructural, chemical, and molecular studies to shed light on the intricate interactions of plant-infected tissues, plant histopathology re-emerged as a powerful science to study the intricate patterns of plant-pathogen interactions and plant-infected tissues.
Our aim for this Research Topic is to explore the following: the histopathology techniques of plant-disease interactions, introduce the Omics tools that are helpful to understand pathogen colonization in tissues, produce material that could be useful to shed light into histology of non-host resistance, integrate new emerging microscopy techniques to describe plant-pathogen interactions, produce high-level information of how plant tissues responses to the pathogen infection.
This article collection is an opportunity for plant biologists and phytopathologists to submit their high-quality research focused on how plant tissues respond to pathogen infection. The submissions should comprise interdisciplinary work in the format of Original Research Articles, Reviews, mini-reviews, and Opinion papers.
Papers should address the following, but not limited to, aspects:
• How pathogens infect plant tissues and how plant tissues respond to infections
• Anatomy of disease organs
• Crop growth and development under different biotic stressors
• Plant cell and tissue responses to infections
• Nutrient efficiency to control plant diseases
• Microbial colonization on vegetative and reproductive organs
• Crop resistance
• Stress tolerance (e.g. mitigation of oxidative stress)
• Plant metabolism
• Plant histopathology
• Plant-microbe interactions
Our aim for this Research Topic is to explore the following: the histopathology techniques of plant-disease interactions, introduce the Omics tools that are helpful to understand pathogen colonization in tissues, produce material that could be useful to shed light into histology of non-host resistance, integrate new emerging microscopy techniques to describe plant-pathogen interactions, produce high-level information of how plant tissues responses to the pathogen infection.
This article collection is an opportunity for plant biologists and phytopathologists to submit their high-quality research focused on how plant tissues respond to pathogen infection. The submissions should comprise interdisciplinary work in the format of Original Research Articles, Reviews, mini-reviews, and Opinion papers.
Papers should address the following, but not limited to, aspects:
• How pathogens infect plant tissues and how plant tissues respond to infections
• Anatomy of disease organs
• Crop growth and development under different biotic stressors
• Plant cell and tissue responses to infections
• Nutrient efficiency to control plant diseases
• Microbial colonization on vegetative and reproductive organs
• Crop resistance
• Stress tolerance (e.g. mitigation of oxidative stress)
• Plant metabolism
• Plant histopathology
• Plant-microbe interactions
Keywords: plant histopathology, plant-pathology, plant-disease, crop resistance, stress tolerance, plant-microbe interactions
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