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Studying Wild Plant Pathosystems to Understand Crop Plant Pathosystems: Status, Gaps, Challenges, and Perspectives
Aleš Lebeda1, Jeremy J Burdon2
1Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Palacký University in Olomouc, Šlechtitelů 27, 783 71 Olomouc, Czech Republic.
Phytopathology
|October 18, 2022
Summary
Understanding wild plant pathosystems (WPPs) and crop plant pathosystems (CPPs) is crucial for agriculture. Research shows WPPs and CPPs interact, offering insights for disease management and plant breeding.
Area of Science:
- Plant pathology and evolutionary biology
- Ecology and genetics of plant-pathogen interactions
Background:
- Historically, phytopathology focused on agricultural systems, overlooking natural plant communities.
- Interest in host-pathogen dynamics in natural ecosystems emerged in the 1970s.
- Plant pathosystems are categorized as autonomous (wild plant pathosystems, WPPs) or deterministic (crop plant pathosystems, CPPs).
Approach:
- Introduces general principles of plant pathosystems.
- Provides a critical overview of host-pathogen interactions in natural systems.
- Compares structural and functional differences between WPPs and CPPs using ecological and genetic perspectives.
Key Points:
- WPPs exhibit disease triangle and closed-loop controls; CPPs show disease tetrahedron and open-loop controls.
- Long-term research on natural plant disease dynamics and their links to CPPs is lacking.
- Case study of lettuce and downy mildew illustrates complex interactions between WPPs and CPPs.
Conclusions:
- Studying WPPs provides insights into disease drivers and potential agricultural applications.
- Cross-talk between WPPs and CPPs is complex but vital for plant breeding and crop management.
- Future research should address theoretical and practical challenges in WPP studies for agricultural benefit.
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