| Autor: |
Harris JM; Department of Plant Biology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, U.S.A., Balint-Kurti P; USDA-ARS, Plant Science Research Unit, Raleigh NC, and Dept. of Entomology and Plant Pathology, NC State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7613, U.S.A., Bede JC; Department of Plant Science, McGill University, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec H9X 3V9, Canada., Day B; Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, U.S.A., Gold S; Plant Pathology Department, University of Georgia, USDA-ARS, Athens, GA 30605-2720, U.S.A., Goss EM; Plant Pathology Department and Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, U.S.A., Grenville-Briggs LJ; Department of Plant Protection Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SE-230 53 Alnarp, Sweden., Jones KM; Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, U.S.A., Wang A; London Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, London, ON N5V 4T3, Canada., Wang Y; Department of Plant Pathology, Nanjing Agricultural University, and Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Crop Diseases and Pests (Ministry of Education), Nanjing 210095, China., Mitra RM; Biology Department, Carleton College, Northfield, MN 55057, U.S.A., Sohn KH; Department of Life Sciences, Pohang University of Science and Technology and School of Interdisciplinary Bioscience and Bioengineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang 37673, Korea., Alvarez ME; Centro de Investigaciones en Química Biológica de Córdoba, CIQUIBIC, CONICET, Departamento de Química Biológica Ranwel Caputto, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba X5000HUA, Argentina. |
| Abstrakt: |
This article is part of the Top 10 Unanswered Questions in MPMI invited review series.The past few decades have seen major discoveries in the field of molecular plant-microbe interactions. As the result of technological and intellectual advances, we are now able to answer questions at a level of mechanistic detail that we could not have imagined possible 20 years ago. The MPMI Editorial Board felt it was time to take stock and reassess. What big questions remain unanswered? We knew that to identify the fundamental, overarching questions that drive our research, we needed to do this as a community. To reach a diverse audience of people with different backgrounds and perspectives, working in different areas of plant-microbe interactions, we queried the more than 1,400 participants at the 2019 International Congress on Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions meeting in Glasgow. This group effort resulted in a list of ten, broad-reaching, fundamental questions that influence and inform our research. Here, we introduce these Top 10 unanswered questions, giving context and a brief description of the issues. Each of these questions will be the subject of a detailed review in the coming months. We hope that this process of reflecting on what is known and unknown and identifying the themes that underlie our research will provide a framework to use going forward, giving newcomers a sense of the mystery of the big questions and inspiring new avenues and novel insights.[Formula: see text] Copyright © 2020 The Author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY 4.0 International license. |
