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Blast Disease of Cereal Crops - Evolution and Adaptation in Context of Climate Change (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
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Blast Disease of Cereal Crops - Evolution and Adaptation in Context of Climate Change (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: Fungal Biology
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Blast is an important foliar disease that infects the majority of
cereal crops like rice, finger millet, pearl millet, foxtail millet
and wheat, and thus resulting in a huge economic impact. The
pathogen is responsible for causing epidemics in many crops and
commonly shifts to new hosts. Magnaporthe spp. is the most
prominent cause of blast disease on a broad host range of grasses
including rice as well as other species of poaceae family. To date,
137 members of Poaceae hosting this fungus have been described in
Fungal Databases. This book provides information on all blast
diseases of different cereal crops. The pathogen evolves quickly
due to its high variability, and thus can quickly adapt to new
cultivars and cause an epidemic in a given crop. Some of the topics
covered here include historical perspectives, pathogen evolution,
host range shift, cross-infectivity, and pathogen isolation, use of
chemicals fungicides, genetics and genomics, and management of
blast disease in different cereal crops with adoption of suitable
methodologies.In the past two decades there have been significant
developments in genomics and proteomics approaches and there has
been substantial and rapid progress in the cloning and mapping of R
genes for blast resistance, as well as in comparative genomics
analysis for resolving delineation of Magnaporthe species that
infect both cereals and grass species. Blast disease resistance
follows a typical gene-for-gene hypothesis. Identification of new
Avr genes and effector molecules from Magnaporthe spp. can be
useful to understand the molecular mechanisms involved in the fast
evolution of different strains of this fungal genus. Advances in
these areas may help to reduce the occurrence of blast disease by
the identification of potential R genes for effective deployment.
Additionally, this book highlights the importance of blast disease
that infects different cereal hosts in the context of climate
change, and genomics approaches that may potentially help in
understanding and applying new concepts and technologies that can
make real impact in sustainable management of blast disease in
different cereal crops.
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