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T1 Global challenges facing plant pathology: multidisciplinary approaches to meet the food security and environmental challenges in the mid‑twenty‑first century
A1 Jeger, Michael
A1 Beresford, Robert
A1 Bock, Clive
A1 Brown, Nathan
A1 Fox, Adrian
A1 Newton, Adrian
A1 Vicent, Antonio
A1 Xu, Xiangming
A1 Yuen, Jonathan
K1 Plant pathology and multidisciplinary approaches
K1 Disease management
K1 Genetic diversity
K1 Plant microbiome
K1 Exotic plant pathogens and plant health
K1 Climate change impacts
K1 H20  Plant diseases
AB The discipline of plant pathology has an expanding remit requiring a multi-faceted, interdisciplinary approach to capturethe complexity of interactions for any given disease, disease complex or syndrome. This review discussed recentdevelopments in plant pathology research and identifies some key issues that, we anticipate, must be faced to meetthe food security and environmental challenges that will arise over coming decades. In meeting these issues, the challengein turn is for the plant pathology community to respond by contributing to a wider forum for multidisciplinaryresearch, recognising that impact will depend not just on advances in the plant pathology discipline alone, but oninteractions more broadly with other agricultural and ecological sciences, and with the needs of national and globalpolicies and regulation. A challenge more readily met once plant pathologists again gather physically at internationalmeetings and return to the professional and social encounters that are fertile grounds for developing new ideas andforging collaborative approaches both within plant pathology and with other disciplines. In this review we emphasise,in particular: the multidisciplinary links between plant pathology and other disciplines; disease management, includingprecision agriculture, plant growth and development, and decision analysis and disease risk; the developmentand use of new and novel plant protection chemicals; new ways of exploiting host genetic diversity including hostresistance deployment; a new perspective on biological control and microbial interactions; advances in surveillanceand detection technologies; invasion of exotic and re-emerging plant pathogens; and the consequences of climatechange affecting all aspects of agriculture, the environment, and their interactions. We draw conclusions in each ofthese areas, but in reaching forward over the next few decades, these inevitably lead to further research questionsrather than solutions to the challenges we anticipate.
PB BMC
SN 2662-4044
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11939/7396
UL http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11939/7396
LA en
NO Jeger, M., Beresford, R., Bock, C., brown, N., Fox, A., Newton, A. et al. (2021). Global challenges facing plant pathology: multidisciplinary approaches to meet the food security and environmental challenges in the mid-twenty-first century. CABI Agric Biosci 2, 20.
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RD May 18, 2022