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Michelmore, R, Coaker, G, Bart, R, Beattie, G, Bent, A, Bruce, TJA, Cameron, D, Dangl, J, Dinesh-Kumar, S, Edwards, R, Eves-van den Akker, S, Gassmann, W, Greenberg, JT, Hanley-Bowdoin, L, Harrison, RJ, Harvey, J, He, P, Huffaker, A, Hulbert, S, Innes, R, Jones, JDG, Kaloshian, I, Kamoun, S, Katagiri, F, Leach, J, Ma, W, McDowell, J, Medford, J, Meyers, B, Nelson, R, Oliver, R, Qi, Y, Saunders, D, Shaw, M, Smart, C, Subudhi, P, Torrance, L, Tyler, B, Valent, B and Walsh, J (2017) Foundational and Translational Research Opportunities to Improve Plant Health. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 30 (7). 515 - 516. ISSN 0894-0282
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Reader Comments | Submit a Comment The white paper reports the deliberations of a workshop focused on biotic challenges to plant health held in Washington, D.C. in September 2016. Ensuring health of food plants is critical to maintaining the quality and productivity of crops and for sustenance of the rapidly growing human population. There is a close linkage between food security and societal stability; however, global food security is threatened by the vulnerability of our agricultural systems to numerous pests, pathogens, weeds, and environmental stresses. These threats are aggravated by climate change, the globalization of agriculture, and an over-reliance on nonsustainable inputs. New analytical and computational technologies are providing unprecedented resolution at a variety of molecular, cellular, organismal, and population scales for crop plants as well as pathogens, pests, beneficial microbes, and weeds. It is now possible to both characterize useful or deleterious variation as well as precisely manipulate it. Data-driven, informed decisions based on knowledge of the variation of biotic challenges and of natural and synthetic variation in crop plants will enable deployment of durable interventions throughout the world. These should be integral, dynamic components of agricultural strategies for sustainable agriculture.
Item Type: | Article |
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Additional Information: | This article and all relevant information related to it regarding copyrights can be found online at; https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/MPMI-01-17-0010-CR |
Subjects: | S Agriculture > S Agriculture (General) S Agriculture > SB Plant culture |
Divisions: | Faculty of Natural Sciences > School of Life Sciences |
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Depositing User: | Symplectic |
Date Deposited: | 03 Sep 2020 14:09 |
Last Modified: | 03 Sep 2020 14:09 |
URI: | https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/id/eprint/8626 |