Exploitation of genomics in fungicide research: current status and future perspectives.

摘要: Summary Every year, fungicide use to control plant disease caused by pathogenic fungi increases. The global market is now worth more than £5.3 billion, second only the herbicide in importance. In UK, over 5500 tonnes of were applied crops 2010 (The Food and Environment Research Agency, Pesticide Usage Statistics), with 95.5% wheat-growing area receiving three sprays. Although dependence on fungicides produce food securely, reliably cheaply may be moderated future further developments crop biotechnology, modern protection will continue require a diversity solutions, including effective safe chemical control. Therefore, investment exploiting increasingly available genome sequences most devastating fungal oomycete phytopathogenic species should bring an array new opportunities for intervention. To date, impact whole research development, introduction stewardship has been limited, but ongoing improvements computational analysis, molecular biology, genetics, sequencing transcriptomics facilitate development registration suite chemicals.