All Roads Lead to Rome: Pathways to Engineering Disease Resistance in Plants

Abstract: Unlike animals, plants are unable to move and lack specialized immune cells and circulating antibodies. As a result, they are always threatened by a large number of microbial pathogens and harmful pests that can significantly reduce crop yield worldwide. Therefore, the development of new strategies to control them is essential to mitigate the increasing risk of crops lost to plant diseases. Recent developments in genetic engineering, including efficient gene manipulation and transformation methods, gene editing and synthetic biology, coupled with the understanding of microbial pathogenicity and plant immunity, both at molecular and genomic levels, have enhanced the capabilities to develop disease resistance in plants. This review comprehensively explains the fundamental mechanisms underlying the tug‐of‐war between pathogens and hosts, and provides a detailed overview of different strategies for developing disease resistance in plants. Additionally, it provides a summary of the potential genes that can be employed in resistance breeding for key crops to combat a wide range of potential pathogens and pests, including fungi, oomycetes, bacteria, viruses, nematodes, and insects. Furthermore, this review addresses the limitations associated with these strategies and their possible solutions. Finally, it discusses the future perspectives for producing plants with durable and broad‐spectrum disease resistance.

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource
Sprache
Englisch

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All Roads Lead to Rome: Pathways to Engineering Disease Resistance in Plants ; day:18 ; month:12 ; year:2024 ; extent:25
Advanced science ; (18.12.2024) (gesamt 25)

Urheber
Ikram, Aziz Ul
Khan, Muhammad Saad Shoaib
Islam, Faisal
Ahmed, Sulaiman
Ling, Tengfang
Feng, Feng
Sun, Zongtao
Chen, Huan
Chen, Jian

DOI
10.1002/advs.202412223
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2412181327449.202085801917
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15.08.2025, 07:33 MESZ

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Beteiligte

  • Ikram, Aziz Ul
  • Khan, Muhammad Saad Shoaib
  • Islam, Faisal
  • Ahmed, Sulaiman
  • Ling, Tengfang
  • Feng, Feng
  • Sun, Zongtao
  • Chen, Huan
  • Chen, Jian

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