Effective crop protection is vital to safeguard food security, but growers are reliant on a
limited toolbox in the face of diverse and evolving pathogens. New crop protection methods …

Plant diseases reduce crop yields and threaten global food security, making the selection of
disease-resistant cultivars a major goal of crop breeding. Broad-spectrum resistance (BSR) …

The use of pathogen-resistant cultivars is expected to increase yield and decrease fungicide
use in agriculture. However, in potato breeding, increased resistance obtained via …

Potato (Solanum tuberosum) and tomato (Solanum lycopersicon) crops suffer severe losses
to late blight caused by the oomycete pathogen Phytophthora infestans. Solanum …

Genetic Engineering for Disease Resistance in Plants: Recent Progress and Future
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Plant pathogens cause recurrent epidemics, threatening crop yield and global food security.
Efforts to retool the plant immune system have been limited to modifying natural components …

Diverse and rapidly evolving pathogens cause plant diseases and epidemics that threaten
crop yield and food security around the world. Research over the last 25 years has led to an …

To confer resistance against pathogens and pests in plants, typically dominant resistance
genes are deployed. However, because resistance is based on recognition of a single …

Breeding wheat with durable resistance to the fungal pathogen Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici
(Pgt), a major threat to cereal production, is challenging due to the rapid evolution of …

Phytophthora species are notorious pathogens of several economically important crop
plants. Several general elicitors, commonly referred to as Pathogen-Associated Molecular …