Foundational and translational research opportunities to improve plant health

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Michelmore, Richard, Coaker, Gitta, Bart, Rebecca, Beattie, Gwyn, Bent, Andrew, Bruce, Toby, Cameron, Duncan, Dangl, Jeffery, Dinesh-Kumar, Savithramma, Edwards, Rob, Eves-van Den Akker, Sebastian, Gassmann, Walter, Greenberg, Jean T., Hanley-Bowdoin, Linda, Harrison, Richard J., Harvey, Jagger, He, Ping, Huffaker, Alisa, Hulbert, Scot, Innes, Roger, Jones, Jonathan D. G., Kaloshian, Isgouhi, Kamoun, Sophien ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0290-0315, Katagiri, Fumiaki, Leach, Jan, Ma, Wenbo, McDowell, John, Medford, June, Meyers, Blake, Nelson, Rebecca, Oliver, Richard, Qi, Yiping, Saunders, Diane, Shaw, Michael, Smart, Christine, Subudhi, Prasanta, Torrance, Lesley, Tyler, Bret, Valent, Barbara and Walsh, John (2017) Foundational and translational research opportunities to improve plant health. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 30 (7). pp. 515-516. ISSN 0894-0282

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Abstract

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
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Science > School of Biological Sciences
Faculty of Science > The Sainsbury Laboratory
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Plant Sciences
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Depositing User: Pure Connector
Date Deposited: 20 Jul 2017 05:05
Last Modified: 29 Jun 2023 15:30
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/64168
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-01-17-0010-CR

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