Open AccessGenetic Engineering for Disease Resistance in Plants: Recent Progress and Future Perspectives
Author(s) -
Oliver Xiaoou Dong,
Pamela C. Ronald
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
plant physiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.554
H-Index - 312
eISSN - 1532-2548
pISSN - 0032-0889
DOI - 10.1104/pp.18.01224
Subject(s) - resistance (ecology) , disease , microbiology and biotechnology , engineering ethics , biology , plant disease resistance , risk analysis (engineering) , engineering , medicine , genetics , ecology , pathology , gene
Modern agriculture must provide sufficient nutrients to feed the world’s growing population, which is projected to increase from 7.3 billion in 2015 to at least 9.8 billion by 2050. This goal is made even more challenging because of crop loss to diseases. Bacterial and fungal pathogens reduce crop
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