What are the important and new projects need to consider in Plant Pathology? Which topics are hot in these days, in this field of study? Share your information.
One new important research area involves improvements in the development of novel technologies for the noninvasive early detection of plant diseases, such as utilizing electronic-nose (e-nose) devices that have many advantages over traditional disease-detection methods like PCR-DNA sequencing and various serological methods.
Sir, Electronic nose(e-nose devices) for detection of Plant Pathogen. Yeh, that is interesting subjects and you have written many review papers on it.
1. Thanks for mentioning the new tool, @ Alphus, which I have not heard before. It is interesting. I have read 2 review paper you wrote, on is in animal field and the other is in agriculture/plant field. I was focusing on the agriculture/plant article since it is my field.
2. I have a question about plant pathogen detection:
Does e-nose use to detect: (1) the specific smells/emitted compounds of the pathogen species on the plants, or (2) the specific smells or chemicals released from plants after a specific pathogen attack/infection?
If (1), there are many 'microbes' on the surface of a plant, after detection, e-nose might show us that 'many' microbes exit. How will we know which microbe is the specific pathogen attacking the plant? If (2), don't we need a huge reference library or database to host information of "what is the specific groups of 'smell' (or chemicals) released from a specific plant species attaching by a specific pathogen" for the e-nose to work??
@ Aqleem Abbas,
There are many important projects related to plant pathology. It is hard to point out which particular ones are 'the most important' projects. It depends. For example, a sudden disease outbreak happens for a specific plant species (ex. wheat) at a region, then projects involve tackling this particular pathogen-caused disease in the region are becoming very important, and can be treated as an emergency and needed to be taken care of ASAP.
Therefore today it is more important to develop such tools to detect a sudden outbreak of a disease and to manage it with environmentally friendly biopesticides.
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