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Michelmore R, Coaker G, Bart R, Beattie G, Bent A, Bruce T, 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, Walsh J. Foundational and Translational Research Opportunities to Improve Plant Health. MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS : MPMI 2017; 30:515-516. [PMID: 28398839 PMCID: PMC5810936 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-01-17-0010-cr] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
Abstract
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.
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Affiliation(s)
- Richard Michelmore
- 1 The Genome Center and Departments of Plant Sciences, Molecular & Cellular Biology, and Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of California, Davis, CA, U.S.A
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- 2 Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis, CA, U.S.A
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- 5 University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, U.S.A
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- 8 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A
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- 10 University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K
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- 17 Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, U.S.A
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- 19 Washington State University, Pullman, WA, U.S.A
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- 20 Indiana University, Bloomigton, IN, U.S.A
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- 24 Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, U.S.A
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- 22 University of California, Riverside, CA, U.S.A
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- 29 East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, U.S.A
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- 33 University of St. Andrews and James Hutton Institute, Fife, U.K
| | - Bret Tyler
- 34 Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, U.S.A.; and
| | | | - John Walsh
- 35 University of Warwick, Wellesbourne, U.K
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