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ReviewAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)2025

All Roads Lead to Rome: Pathways to Engineering Disease Resistance in Plants.

Aziz Ul Ikram, Muhammad Saad Shoaib Khan, Faisal Islam, Sulaiman Ahmed, Tengfang Ling, Feng Feng, Zongtao Sun, Huan Chen, Jian Chen

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Review in Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Aziz Ul IkramInternational Genome Center, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, 212013, China.
Muhammad Saad Shoaib KhanInternational Genome Center, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, 212013, China.
Faisal IslamInternational Genome Center, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, 212013, China.
Sulaiman AhmedInternational Genome Center, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, 212013, China.
Tengfang LingPlant Systems Engineering Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea.
Feng FengDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, 74078, USA.
Zongtao SunState Key Laboratory for Managing Biotic and Chemical Threats to the Quality and Safety of Agro-products, Key Laboratory of Biotechnology in Plant Protection of Ministry of Agriculture and Zhejiang Province, Institute of Plant Virology, Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315211, China.
Huan ChenJoint Center for Single Cell Biology, School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai, 200240, China.
Jian ChenInternational Genome Center, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, 212013, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1694-8755

Funding

China Postdoctoral Science Foundation 2023M731386China Postdoctoral Science Foundation 2023M731387Jiangsu Province Excellent Postdoctoral Program 2022ZB676Jiangsu Province Excellent Postdoctoral Program 2022ZB677Jiangsu Province Excellent Postdoctoral Program 2022ZB678Jiangsu Province Excellent Postdoctoral Program 2023ZB863National Key Research and Development Program of China 2023YFE0123400National Natural Science Foundation of China 32000201National Natural Science Foundation of China 32250410283National Natural Science Foundation of China 32250410314National Natural Science Foundation of China 32350410410National Natural Science Foundation of China 32470342National Natural Science Foundation of China W2433065Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province BK20211319Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai 24ZR1430100
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Unlike animals, plants are unable to move and lack specialized immune cells and circulating antibodies. As a result, they are always threatened by a large number of microbial pathogens and harmful pests that can significantly reduce crop yield worldwide. Therefore, the development of new strategies to control them is essential to mitigate the increasing risk of crops lost to plant diseases. Recent developments in genetic engineering, including efficient gene manipulation and transformation methods, gene editing and synthetic biology, coupled with the understanding of microbial pathogenicity and plant immunity, both at molecular and genomic levels, have enhanced the capabilities to develop disease resistance in plants. This review comprehensively explains the fundamental mechanisms underlying the tug-of-war between pathogens and hosts, and provides a detailed overview of different strategies for developing disease resistance in plants. Additionally, it provides a summary of the potential genes that can be employed in resistance breeding for key crops to combat a wide range of potential pathogens and pests, including fungi, oomycetes, bacteria, viruses, nematodes, and insects. Furthermore, this review addresses the limitations associated with these strategies and their possible solutions. Finally, it discusses the future perspectives for producing plants with durable and broad-spectrum disease resistance.

Indexed as

Crops, AgriculturalDisease ResistanceGenetic EngineeringPlant DiseasesPlants, Genetically ModifiedPlant BreedingPlant ImmunityDisease resistanceE genesGenetic engineeringNLRsPlant immunityPRRsSARS genes

Identifiers

PMID39691979
PMCPMC11792000

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