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Crandall SG, Gold KM, Jiménez-Gasco MDM, Filgueiras CC, Willett DS. A multi-omics approach to solving problems in plant disease ecology. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0237975. [PMID: 32960892 PMCID: PMC7508392 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0237975] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2020] [Accepted: 08/04/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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The swift rise of omics-approaches allows for investigating microbial diversity and plant-microbe interactions across diverse ecological communities and spatio-temporal scales. The environment, however, is rapidly changing. The introduction of invasive species and the effects of climate change have particular impact on emerging plant diseases and managing current epidemics. It is critical, therefore, to take a holistic approach to understand how and why pathogenesis occurs in order to effectively manage for diseases given the synergies of changing environmental conditions. A multi-omics approach allows for a detailed picture of plant-microbial interactions and can ultimately allow us to build predictive models for how microbes and plants will respond to stress under environmental change. This article is designed as a primer for those interested in integrating -omic approaches into their plant disease research. We review -omics technologies salient to pathology including metabolomics, genomics, metagenomics, volatilomics, and spectranomics, and present cases where multi-omics have been successfully used for plant disease ecology. We then discuss additional limitations and pitfalls to be wary of prior to conducting an integrated research project as well as provide information about promising future directions.
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- Sharifa G. Crandall
- Department of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States of America
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- Plant Pathology & Plant Microbe Biology Section, Cornell AgriTech, Cornell University, Geneva, NY, United States of America
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- Department of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States of America
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- Applied Chemical Ecology Technology, Cornell AgriTech, Cornell University, Geneva, NY, United States of America
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- Applied Chemical Ecology Technology, Cornell AgriTech, Cornell University, Geneva, NY, United States of America
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Panopoulos NJ. A Career on Both Sides of the Atlantic: Memoirs of a Molecular Plant Pathologist. ANNUAL REVIEW OF PHYTOPATHOLOGY 2017; 55:1-21. [PMID: 28777925 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-phyto-080516-035506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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This article recounts the experiences that shaped my career as a molecular plant pathologist. It focuses primarily on technical and conceptual developments in molecular phytobacteriology, shares some personal highlights and untold stories that impacted my professional development, and describes the early years of agricultural biotechnology. Writing this article required reflection on events occurring over several decades that were punctuated by a mid-career relocation across the Atlantic. I hope it will still be useful, informative, and enjoyable to read. An extended version of the abstract is provided in the Supplemental Materials , available online.
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- Nickolas J Panopoulos
- Professor Emeritus, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, California 94619
- Department of Biology, University of Crete, Heraklion, GR-71003, Greece;
- Hellenic Agricultural Academy, Agricultural University of Athens, 118 55 Athens, Greece
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Bartoli C, Roux F. Genome-Wide Association Studies In Plant Pathosystems: Toward an Ecological Genomics Approach. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2017; 8:763. [PMID: 28588588 PMCID: PMC5441063 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.00763] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2017] [Accepted: 04/24/2017] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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The emergence and re-emergence of plant pathogenic microorganisms are processes that imply perturbations in both host and pathogen ecological niches. Global change is largely assumed to drive the emergence of new etiological agents by altering the equilibrium of the ecological habitats which in turn places hosts more in contact with pathogen reservoirs. In this context, the number of epidemics is expected to increase dramatically in the next coming decades both in wild and crop plants. Under these considerations, the identification of the genetic variants underlying natural variation of resistance is a pre-requisite to estimate the adaptive potential of wild plant populations and to develop new breeding resistant cultivars. On the other hand, the prediction of pathogen's genetic determinants underlying disease emergence can help to identify plant resistance alleles. In the genomic era, whole genome sequencing combined with the development of statistical methods led to the emergence of Genome Wide Association (GWA) mapping, a powerful tool for detecting genomic regions associated with natural variation of disease resistance in both wild and cultivated plants. However, GWA mapping has been less employed for the detection of genetic variants associated with pathogenicity in microbes. Here, we reviewed GWA studies performed either in plants or in pathogenic microorganisms (bacteria, fungi and oomycetes). In addition, we highlighted the benefits and caveats of the emerging joint GWA mapping approach that allows for the simultaneous identification of genes interacting between genomes of both partners. Finally, based on co-evolutionary processes in wild populations, we highlighted a phenotyping-free joint GWA mapping approach as a promising tool for describing the molecular landscape underlying plant - microbe interactions.
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Klosterman SJ, Rollins JR, Sudarshana MR, Vinatzer BA. Disease Management in the Genomics Era-Summaries of Focus Issue Papers. PHYTOPATHOLOGY 2016; 106:1068-1070. [PMID: 27482626 DOI: 10.1094/phyto-07-16-0276-fi] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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The genomics revolution has contributed enormously to research and disease management applications in plant pathology. This development has rapidly increased our understanding of the molecular mechanisms underpinning pathogenesis and resistance, contributed novel markers for rapid pathogen detection and diagnosis, and offered further insights into the genetics of pathogen populations on a larger scale. The availability of whole genome resources coupled with next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies has helped fuel genomics-based approaches to improve disease resistance in crops. NGS technologies have accelerated the pace at which whole plant and pathogen genomes have become available, and made possible the metagenomic analysis of plant-associated microbial communities. Furthermore, NGS technologies can now be applied routinely and cost effectively to rapidly generate plant and/or pathogen genome or transcriptome marker sequences associated with virulence phenotypes in the pathogen or resistance phenotypes in the plant, potentially leading to improvements in plant disease management. In some systems, investments in plant and pathogen genomics have led to immediate, tangible benefits. This focus issue covers some of the systems. The articles in this focus issue range from overall perspective articles to research articles describing specific genomics applications for detection and control of diseases caused by nematode, viral, bacterial, fungal, and oomycete pathogens. The following are representative short summaries of the articles that appear in this Focus Issue .
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- S J Klosterman
- 2016 Focus Issue Senior Editors First author: U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agriculture Research Service (USDA-ARS), 1636 E. Alisal Street, Salinas, CA 93905; second author: Department of Plant Pathology, University of Florida, Gainesville 32611; third author: USDA-ARS, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616; and fourth author: Department of Plant Pathology, Physiology, and Weed Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg 24061
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- 2016 Focus Issue Senior Editors First author: U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agriculture Research Service (USDA-ARS), 1636 E. Alisal Street, Salinas, CA 93905; second author: Department of Plant Pathology, University of Florida, Gainesville 32611; third author: USDA-ARS, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616; and fourth author: Department of Plant Pathology, Physiology, and Weed Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg 24061
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- 2016 Focus Issue Senior Editors First author: U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agriculture Research Service (USDA-ARS), 1636 E. Alisal Street, Salinas, CA 93905; second author: Department of Plant Pathology, University of Florida, Gainesville 32611; third author: USDA-ARS, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616; and fourth author: Department of Plant Pathology, Physiology, and Weed Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg 24061
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- 2016 Focus Issue Senior Editors First author: U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agriculture Research Service (USDA-ARS), 1636 E. Alisal Street, Salinas, CA 93905; second author: Department of Plant Pathology, University of Florida, Gainesville 32611; third author: USDA-ARS, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616; and fourth author: Department of Plant Pathology, Physiology, and Weed Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg 24061
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