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From: Global challenges facing plant pathology: multidisciplinary approaches to meet the food security and environmental challenges in the mid-twenty-first century

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Schematic showing how the interlocking of different strands of multidisciplinary research in plant pathology should develop to meet the cropping, food security and environmental challenges of the coming decades. The diagram shows the continuum between cropped and non-cropped systems. Genetic and plant chemistry research will contribute from seed to mature plant performance. An understanding and management of host–pathogen interactions and epidemiology will benefit from research across the continuum. Climate change and the global trade in commodities will drive the introduction and spread of exotic pathogens into both cropped and non-cropped systems with the concomitant need for improved and linked surveillance and diagnostic systems. In all areas of research there should be a role for social scientists and other concerned participants in research scoping, planning and implementation

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