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Why Do We Need Alternative Methods for Fungal Disease Management in Plants?
Fungal pathogens pose a major threat to food production worldwide. Traditionally, chemical fungicides have been the primary means of controlling these pathogens, but many of these fungicides have recently come under increased scrutiny due to their negative effects on the health of humans, animals, a...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10675458/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38005718 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants12223822 |
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author | McLaughlin, Michael S. Roy, Maria Abbasi, Pervaiz A. Carisse, Odile Yurgel, Svetlana N. Ali, Shawkat |
author_facet | McLaughlin, Michael S. Roy, Maria Abbasi, Pervaiz A. Carisse, Odile Yurgel, Svetlana N. Ali, Shawkat |
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description | Fungal pathogens pose a major threat to food production worldwide. Traditionally, chemical fungicides have been the primary means of controlling these pathogens, but many of these fungicides have recently come under increased scrutiny due to their negative effects on the health of humans, animals, and the environment. Furthermore, the use of chemical fungicides can result in the development of resistance in populations of phytopathogenic fungi. Therefore, new environmentally friendly alternatives that provide adequate levels of disease control are needed to replace chemical fungicides—if not completely, then at least partially. A number of alternatives to conventional chemical fungicides have been developed, including plant defence elicitors (PDEs); biological control agents (fungi, bacteria, and mycoviruses), either alone or as consortia; biochemical fungicides; natural products; RNA interference (RNAi) methods; and resistance breeding. This article reviews the conventional and alternative methods available to manage fungal pathogens, discusses their strengths and weaknesses, and identifies potential areas for future research. |
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spelling | pubmed-106754582023-11-10 Why Do We Need Alternative Methods for Fungal Disease Management in Plants? McLaughlin, Michael S. Roy, Maria Abbasi, Pervaiz A. Carisse, Odile Yurgel, Svetlana N. Ali, Shawkat Plants (Basel) Review Fungal pathogens pose a major threat to food production worldwide. Traditionally, chemical fungicides have been the primary means of controlling these pathogens, but many of these fungicides have recently come under increased scrutiny due to their negative effects on the health of humans, animals, and the environment. Furthermore, the use of chemical fungicides can result in the development of resistance in populations of phytopathogenic fungi. Therefore, new environmentally friendly alternatives that provide adequate levels of disease control are needed to replace chemical fungicides—if not completely, then at least partially. A number of alternatives to conventional chemical fungicides have been developed, including plant defence elicitors (PDEs); biological control agents (fungi, bacteria, and mycoviruses), either alone or as consortia; biochemical fungicides; natural products; RNA interference (RNAi) methods; and resistance breeding. This article reviews the conventional and alternative methods available to manage fungal pathogens, discusses their strengths and weaknesses, and identifies potential areas for future research. MDPI 2023-11-10 /pmc/articles/PMC10675458/ /pubmed/38005718 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants12223822 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review McLaughlin, Michael S. Roy, Maria Abbasi, Pervaiz A. Carisse, Odile Yurgel, Svetlana N. Ali, Shawkat Why Do We Need Alternative Methods for Fungal Disease Management in Plants? |
title | Why Do We Need Alternative Methods for Fungal Disease Management in Plants? |
title_full | Why Do We Need Alternative Methods for Fungal Disease Management in Plants? |
title_fullStr | Why Do We Need Alternative Methods for Fungal Disease Management in Plants? |
title_full_unstemmed | Why Do We Need Alternative Methods for Fungal Disease Management in Plants? |
title_short | Why Do We Need Alternative Methods for Fungal Disease Management in Plants? |
title_sort | why do we need alternative methods for fungal disease management in plants? |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10675458/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38005718 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants12223822 |
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