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Emerging Plant Diseases: Research Status and Challenges

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Plant diseases result in significant crop destruction thereby inadequate food supply and lead to economic and post-harvest losses in the agricultural production sector throughout the world. Early detection of plant diseases and pathogens is important for maintaining sustainability for the economy of the agricultural sector. The prevention of plant disease and pathogens during the early stages aids in plant health control and yield improvement. It is also crucial to analyze the disease spread in plants for overcoming the issues related to physiological and biological states in crop protection. This chapter reviews the research status of the various emerging plant diseases responsible for a large amount of crop destruction every year all over the world and the challenges that the agricultural sector face to overcome this problem.

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  1. Department of Cellular Coordination, Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Halle (Saale), Sachsen Anhalt, Germany

    Dipannita Mitra

  2. Bad Waldsee, Baden Württemberg, Germany

    Dipannita Mitra

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  1. Plant Pathology, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar, India

    Krishna P. Singh

  2. Department of Plant Pathology, University of Agricultural Sciences Dharwad, Dharwad, Karnataka, India

    Shamarao Jahagirdar

  3. Department of Mycology and Plant Pathology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Birinchi Kumar Sarma

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Mitra, D. (2021). Emerging Plant Diseases: Research Status and Challenges. In: Singh, K.P., Jahagirdar, S., Sarma, B.K. (eds) Emerging Trends in Plant Pathology . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6275-4_1

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