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ReviewPlants (Basel, Switzerland)2026

Biotic Stress Resistance in Sweet Potato: Mechanisms, Perspectives, and Sustainable Production Strategies.

Hai Zheng, Jiachun Weng, Liehong Wu, Zhixian Ji, Yusha Meng, Shengfa Shen, Chao Xiang

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Review in Plants (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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7 authors.

Hai ZhengInstitute of Crops and Nuclear Technology Utilization, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310021, China.
Jiachun WengCollege of Food and Health, Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University, Hangzhou 311300, China.ORCID 0009-0004-1249-8181
Liehong WuInstitute of Crops and Nuclear Technology Utilization, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310021, China.
Zhixian JiInstitute of Crops and Nuclear Technology Utilization, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310021, China.
Yusha MengInstitute of Crops and Nuclear Technology Utilization, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310021, China.
Shengfa ShenInstitute of Crops and Nuclear Technology Utilization, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310021, China.
Chao XiangInstitute of Crops and Nuclear Technology Utilization, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310021, China.

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China 31901585Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation LTGN24C130004
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Food security is increasingly threatened by climate change and population growth. Sweet potato has become a crucial crop for ensuring food security due to its adaptability to marginal lands and high yield potential. However, its sustainable production is severely limited by diverse biotic stresses (including fungi, viruses, nematodes, insect pests and bacteria), which cause substantial yield losses. Despite its considerable importance, the key bottlenecks in this field remain unresolved, including the incomplete elucidation of core resistance mechanisms, unclear molecular regulatory networks underlying defense responses, insufficient understanding of crosstalk among multiple stresses, and limited integration of emerging technologies into practical resistance breeding. This review synthesizes the latest advances over the past two years. We dissect sweet potato's defense mechanisms from multiple dimensions and provide novel insights into biotic stress resistance gene regulatory networks. Given that sweet potato production faces the combined effects of multiple pests and biotic-abiotic stresses, we elaborate on the complex stress interactions in sweet potato. In addition, we propose biotic stress management strategies and a ten-year cultivar improvement roadmap that leverages the potential of emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), gene editing, novel omics approaches and synthetic biology. Taken together, with continuous intensification of global biotic stress challenges, systematic multi-dimensional strategies are imperative to alleviate biotic stress-associated yield and quality impairment in sweet potato. On this basis, this review provides a valuable theoretical and practical reference for resistance breeding and the sustainable production of sweet potato.

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biotic stressbreeding strategiesresistance mechanismssustainable productionsweet potato

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PMID42197638
PMCPMC13210709

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