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ReviewStress biology2025

Plant-pathogen interactions: making the case for multi-omics analysis of complex pathosystems.

Sadegh Balotf, Richard Wilson, Roghayeh Hemmati, Mahsa Eshaghi, Calum Wilson, Luis A J Mur

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Review in Stress biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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12citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Structural Variation and Its Roles in Plant Genomes.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  4. Biocontrol Microbial Inoculants SuppressPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  8. Beyond Resistance Genes: Silencing Susceptibility.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  11. Decoding the rhizosphere microbiome againstFrontiers in microbiomes · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Sadegh BalotfCentre for Crop Health, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia. Sadegh.Balotf@unisq.edu.au.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9949-8571
Richard WilsonCentral Science Laboratory, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0152-4394
Roghayeh HemmatiDepartment of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zanjan, Zanjan, Iran.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4562-4146
Mahsa EshaghiDepartment of Plant Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0001-7827-156X
Calum WilsonTasmanian Institute of Agriculture, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5434-3816
Luis A J MurDepartment of Life Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0961-9817

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding plant-pathogen interactions requires a systems-level perspective that single-omics approaches, such as genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, or metabolomics alone, often fail to provide. While these methods are informative, they are limited in their ability to capture the complexity of the dynamic molecular interactions between host and pathogen. Multi-omics strategies offer a powerful solution by integrating complementary data types, enabling a more comprehensive view of the molecular networks and pathways involved in disease progression and defence. Although technological advances have made omics analyses more accessible and affordable, their integration remains underutilised in plant science. This review highlights the limitations of single-omics studies in dissecting plant-pathogen interactions and emphasises the value of multi-omics approaches. We discuss available computational tools for data integration and visualisation, outline current challenges, including data heterogeneity, normalisation issues, and computational demands, and explore future directions such as the exploitation of artificial intelligence-based approaches and single-cell omics. We conclude that the increasing accessibility and affordability of omics analysis means that multi-omics strategies are now indispensable tools to investigate complex biological processes such as plant-pathogen interactions.

Indexed as

GenomicsMetabolomicsMulti-omicsPlant-pathogen interactionsProteomicsTranscriptomics

Identifiers

PMID41148539
PMCPMC12569278

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