Abstract
Sorghum is the fifth most important crop globally. Researching interactions between sorghum and fungal pathogens is essential to further elucidate plant defense mechanisms to biotic stress, which allows breeders to employ genetic resistance to disease. A variety of creative and useful inoculation and screening methods have been developed by sorghum pathologists to study major fungal diseases. As inoculation and screening methods can be keys for successfully conducting experiments, it is necessary to summarize the techniques developed by this research community. Among many fungal pathogens of sorghum, here we summarize inoculation and screening methods for five important fungal pathogens of sorghum: Claviceps africana, Colletotrichum sublineola, Sporisorium reilianum, Peronosclerospora sorghi and Macrophomina phaseolina. The methods described within will be useful for researchers who are interested in exploring sorghum-fungal pathogen interactions. Finally, we discuss the latest biotechnologies and methods for studying plant-fungal pathogen interactions and their applicability to sorghum pathology.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Article number | 1906 |
| Journal | Plants |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue number | 9 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - May 2023 |
Bibliographical note
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Keywords
- Claviceps africana
- Colletotrichum sublineola
- disease evaluation
- disease screening
- fungal pathogens
- Macrophomina phaseolina
- pathogen inoculation
- Peronosclerospora sorghi
- sorghum
- Sporisorium reilianum