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Journal of Integrative Agriculture  2016, Vol. 15 Issue (4): 705-715    DOI: 10.1016/S2095-3119(15)61300-4
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Problems, challenges and future of plant disease management: from an ecological point of view
HE Dun-chun1, ZHAN Jia-sui1, 2, XIE Lian-hui1, 2
1 Fujian Key Lab of Plant Virology, Institute of Plant Virology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, P.R.China 2 Key Lab for Biopesticide and Chemical Biology, Ministry of Education/Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, P.R.China
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摘要  Plant disease management faces ever-growing challenges due to: (i) increasing demands for total, safe and diverse foods to support the booming global population and its improving living standards; (ii) reducing production potential in agriculture due to competition for land in fertile areas and exhaustion of marginal arable lands; (iii) deteriorating ecology of agro-ecosystems and depletion of natural resources; and (iv) increased risk of disease epidemics resulting from agricultural intensification and monocultures. Future plant disease management should aim to strengthen food security for a stable society while simultaneously safeguarding the health of associated ecosystems and reducing dependency on natural resources. To achieve these multiple functionalities, sustainable plant disease management should place emphases on rational adaptation of resistance, avoidance, elimination and remediation strategies individually and collectively, guided by traits of specific host-pathogen associations using evolutionary ecology principles to create environmental (biotic and abiotic) conditions favorable for host growth and development while adverse to pathogen reproduction and evolution.

Abstract  Plant disease management faces ever-growing challenges due to: (i) increasing demands for total, safe and diverse foods to support the booming global population and its improving living standards; (ii) reducing production potential in agriculture due to competition for land in fertile areas and exhaustion of marginal arable lands; (iii) deteriorating ecology of agro-ecosystems and depletion of natural resources; and (iv) increased risk of disease epidemics resulting from agricultural intensification and monocultures. Future plant disease management should aim to strengthen food security for a stable society while simultaneously safeguarding the health of associated ecosystems and reducing dependency on natural resources. To achieve these multiple functionalities, sustainable plant disease management should place emphases on rational adaptation of resistance, avoidance, elimination and remediation strategies individually and collectively, guided by traits of specific host-pathogen associations using evolutionary ecology principles to create environmental (biotic and abiotic) conditions favorable for host growth and development while adverse to pathogen reproduction and evolution.
Keywords:  disease resistance       avoidance      elimination and remediation       ecological plant disease management       evolutionary principle       food security       plant disease economy  
Received: 29 October 2015   Accepted:
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This work was supported by the Fujian Technology Plan Project, China (2012N4001), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (U1405213) and the Ministry of Science and Technology of National 973 Program of China (2014CB160315).

Corresponding Authors:  XIE Lian-hui     E-mail:  xielh@fafu.edu.cn

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HE Dun-chun, ZHAN Jia-sui, XIE Lian-hui. 2016. Problems, challenges and future of plant disease management: from an ecological point of view. Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 15(4): 705-715.

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