Chapter One - Fungi, Food Crops, and Biosecurity: Advances and Challenges

摘要: Diseases caused by plant pathogenic fungi and Oomycetes continue to cause significant losses in staple crops worldwide. Toxigenic also pose a threat food safety. Fungal pathogens have proved difficult control due their ability spread on continental scale, adapt changing environment, overcome originally effective sources of resistance fungicides. Intensive production systems based monocultures agrochemical inputs exert strong selection pressure pathogen populations. A more integrated systems-based approach disease management is required delay or prevent directional for virulence fungicide resistance. Recent technological advances detection diagnosis, along with novel insights into plant–pathogen interactions the molecular basis immunity, promise provide new opportunities enhance biosecurity develop durable methods control. Several challenges remain be overcome. Is it possible achieve goal sustainable intensification meet projected increases demand other crop products, while reducing dependence fertilizers, pesticides, inputs? Furthermore, an appropriate regulatory environment enable use breeding technologies genetic manipulation gene editing. In longer term, there will need integrate wide range approaches increase resilience biotic abiotic stress, taking full account evolutionary ecological factors.