Guest Editors
Yumin Kan
Stony Brook University, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
I am a postdoctoral researcher working in the lab of Prof. Vitaly Citovsky at Stony Brook University. I received my Ph.D. in Plant Pathology from China Agricultural University with Laixin Luo in 2019 and worked as a postdoc with Tao Dong at Shanghai Jiao Tong University from 2020-2023. I study the dormant state and type VI secretion system of bacteria, as well as how they influence the pathogenicity and microbe-microbe interactions, respectively. My dissertation focused on the entry and resuscitation of viable but nonculturable state of Acidovorax citrull, a seed-borne bacterial pathogen on Cucurbitaceous crops. I joined Prof. Vitaly Citovsky's lab in 2023 and current projects focused on plant-virus interaction.
Vitaly Citovsky
Stony Brook University, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Dr. Vitaly Citovsky, Ph.D., is a Distinguished Professor at the Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, State University of New York at Stony Brook. Dr. Citovsky’s research focuses on three areas of plant biology: intercellular transport of plant viruses, plant genetic transformation by Agrobacterium, and plant chromatin remodelling. The first two utilize pathogens-pirates of the host cellular pathways—as molecular tools to study fundamental biological questions, and the third examines the control of plant genes by histone modifications. Dr. Citovsky is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a Member of the American Academy of Microbiology and the National Academy of Inventors, and a Member of the Faculty 1000 Biology. Dr. Citovsky published over 200 articles and he serves on the Editorial Boards of numerous professional journals
Collection Overview
The global demand for crop production is growing at an alarming rate as a result of population growth. However, crop diseases caused by various plant pathogens represent a primary threat to global food production. Over the past decades, excessive use of agrochemicals has caused serious contamination of the environment and resistance to plant pathogens. Consequently, understanding the mechanisms of plant-pathogen interactions is necessary for breeding and developing eco-friendly tools for plant disease management, which can solve both issues.
The proposed collection of methodologies will present a set of modern experimental approaches for studies and understanding of plant-pathogen interactions on cellular and molecular levels. This includes but is not limited to techniques for the detection of plant disease, molecular dissecting of plant innate immunity to various pathogens, and methods to investigate the coevolutionary arms race between pathogens and plants. This collection will provide the researchers in the field with new molecular tools and experimental concepts.
Articles
Abstracts
Unraveling plant-pathogen interactions using directed evolution of plant resistance genes
Inanc Soylu*1,
Amitava Mitra1
1University of Nebraska - Lincoln