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Plant-Pathogen Warfare under Changing Climate Conditions.

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Velásquez, AC; Castroverde, CDM; He, SY
Published in: Current biology : CB
May 2018

Global environmental changes caused by natural and human activities have accelerated in the past 200 years. The increase in greenhouse gases is predicted to continue to raise global temperature and change water availability in the 21st century. In this Review, we explore the profound effect the environment has on plant diseases - a susceptible host will not be infected by a virulent pathogen if the environmental conditions are not conducive for disease. The change in CO2 concentrations, temperature, and water availability can have positive, neutral, or negative effects on disease development, as each disease may respond differently to these variations. However, the concept of disease optima could potentially apply to all pathosystems. Plant resistance pathways, including pattern-triggered immunity to effector-triggered immunity, RNA interference, and defense hormone networks, are all affected by environmental factors. On the pathogen side, virulence mechanisms, such as the production of toxins and virulence proteins, as well as pathogen reproduction and survival are influenced by temperature and humidity. For practical reasons, most laboratory investigations into plant-pathogen interactions at the molecular level focus on well-established pathosystems and use a few static environmental conditions that capture only a fraction of the dynamic plant-pathogen-environment interactions that occur in nature. There is great need for future research to increasingly use dynamic environmental conditions in order to fully understand the multidimensional nature of plant-pathogen interactions and produce disease-resistant crop plants that are resilient to climate change.

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Published In

Current biology : CB

DOI

EISSN

1879-0445

ISSN

0960-9822

Publication Date

May 2018

Volume

28

Issue

10

Start / End Page

R619 / R634

Related Subject Headings

  • Water
  • Plant Physiological Phenomena
  • Plant Diseases
  • Humidity
  • Hot Temperature
  • Host-Pathogen Interactions
  • Developmental Biology
  • Climate Change
  • 52 Psychology
  • 32 Biomedical and clinical sciences
 

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Velásquez, A. C., Castroverde, C. D. M., & He, S. Y. (2018). Plant-Pathogen Warfare under Changing Climate Conditions. Current Biology : CB, 28(10), R619–R634. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.03.054
Velásquez, André C., Christian Danve M. Castroverde, and Sheng Yang He. “Plant-Pathogen Warfare under Changing Climate Conditions.Current Biology : CB 28, no. 10 (May 2018): R619–34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.03.054.
Velásquez AC, Castroverde CDM, He SY. Plant-Pathogen Warfare under Changing Climate Conditions. Current biology : CB. 2018 May;28(10):R619–34.
Velásquez, André C., et al. “Plant-Pathogen Warfare under Changing Climate Conditions.Current Biology : CB, vol. 28, no. 10, May 2018, pp. R619–34. Epmc, doi:10.1016/j.cub.2018.03.054.
Velásquez AC, Castroverde CDM, He SY. Plant-Pathogen Warfare under Changing Climate Conditions. Current biology : CB. 2018 May;28(10):R619–R634.
Journal cover image

Published In

Current biology : CB

DOI

EISSN

1879-0445

ISSN

0960-9822

Publication Date

May 2018

Volume

28

Issue

10

Start / End Page

R619 / R634

Related Subject Headings

  • Water
  • Plant Physiological Phenomena
  • Plant Diseases
  • Humidity
  • Hot Temperature
  • Host-Pathogen Interactions
  • Developmental Biology
  • Climate Change
  • 52 Psychology
  • 32 Biomedical and clinical sciences