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. 2016 Sep 26;7:1488. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01488

Table 2.

List of emerging phytopathogens and strategies to manage the affects of emerging pathogen.

Emerging Pathogens Host Plant Strategies to manage the affect of emerging pathogens Reference
Bacteria
Burkholderia glumae
Dickeya solani
Rice
Potato
(1) A deeper insights and understanding in cross-kingdom horizontal gene transfer (HGT).
(2) Knowledge of shared genes and proteins among the genomes of pathogens.
(3) A newer insights into phage-mediated regulation of bacterial pathogenesis.
Toth et al., 2011; Sharma et al., 2013; Varani et al., 2013; Thynne et al., 2015

Fungus
Ramularia collo-cygni Barley (1) Development of new approaches to explore genomic data and to characterize patterns of natural selection like, genome evolution, recombination pattern, and population dynamics.
(2) More emphasis should be in the study of nucleotide diversity and analysis of repeat-rich regions.
(3) Population genomic analysis, particularly identification of strongly selected genes, evolutionary potentials. (4) A deeper insights and understanding in cross-kingdom HGT.
Leonard and Bushnell, 2003; Solomon et al., 2006; Walters et al., 2008; Bahri et al., 2009; Ma et al., 2010; Husson et al., 2011; de Jonge et al., 2012; Kjær et al., 2012; Raffaele and Kamoun, 2012; Stukenbrock and Bataillon, 2012; Stukenbrock et al., 2012; Maciel et al., 2014; Misra and Chaturvedi, 2015
Melampsora columbiana Poplar rust
Verticillium longisporum Wilt in many plants
Verticillium dahlias Wilt in many plants
Botrytis allii Onion
Puccinia striifornis Wheat
Stagonospora nodorum Wheat
Hymenoscyphus pseudoalbidus Ash tree
Fusarium graminearum Cereal crops
Chalara fraxinea Ash tree
Zymoseptoria pseudotritici Grass species
Magnaporthe oryzae Wheat
Neurospora crassa Bread
Mycosphaerella graminicola Wheat

Oomycetes
Phytophthora ramorum Oak (1) A deeper insights and understanding in cross-kingdom HGT.
(2) Analysis of evolutionary dynamics.
(3) Continuing genome sequencing and pathogenomics research.
(4) Effectoromics and plant host responses.
(5) Genome-wide cataloguing of oomycete effectors.

Rizzo et al., 2005; Baxter et al., 2010; Raffaele et al., 2010; Goss et al., 2011; Links et al., 2011; Richards et al., 2011; Grünwald et al., 2012; Misra and Chaturvedi, 2015
Phytophthora alni Alders
Phytophthora andina Potato

Virus (1) A system biology approach to study their interaction with plants with the help of collection and analysis of high-throughput molecular data and omics-scale data. Hanssen and Thomma, 2010; Kikuchi et al., 2011; Hwang et al., 2012; Misra and Chaturvedi, 2015