Advances in plant–pathogen interaction: new challenges for sustainable disease management

Abstract

Plant pathogens cause huge losses and have been an important constraint to a worldwide increase in crop production and productivity. They are aggravated by agricultural intensification and monocultures, leading to new emergent diseases. Therefore, relevant efforts have been made in the search for environmentally friendly biocontrol agents, especially after UE directories for commercialization withdrew several chemical substances used for pest and disease control and new rules were established to reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions in the 2015 Paris Agreement of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.