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Fungal Disease Management in Plants

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Fungal diseases damage crop plants and affect agricultural production. The defence strategy of plants against stress factors involves a multitude of tools, including various types of stress proteins with putative protective functions. Recent molecular advancements in understanding plant–pathogen studies have led to the identification of various host genes involved in the plant’s defence against pathogen attack. This knowledge has paved path for a number of options and strategies that can be and have been developed to make plants resistant to pathogens. These genes may involve resistance gene–avirulence gene interaction, antimicrobial peptides, enzymes for phytoalexin production, proteins involved in defence-signalling cascades and hydrolytic enzymes or pathogenesis-related proteins that are directly or indirectly responsible for the plant’s defence responses following a pathogen attack. Recently small RNAs have been identified as key players of many pathways they are important transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulators of gene expression. RNA interference (RNAi) is an emerging strategy for control of fungal pathogens, through silencing of pathogen-associated genes. miRNAs also play an important role in plant defence responses to pathogen attack. Certain microRNAs (miRNAs) are up- or downregulated during pathogen attack, indicating that these miRNAs could play important roles in biotic stress tolerance. All this information has been/or is being used to produce fungus-resistant transgenic plants in different crop species.

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Singh, D., Teotia, S. (2014). Fungal Disease Management in Plants. In: Gaur, R., Sharma, P. (eds) Approaches to Plant Stress and their Management. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1620-9_19

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