Review Paper:
Plant-Multi-Pathogen
Interactions: A Growing Trend
Nehra Chitra, Malik Ayushi, Chaudhary Deepika and Marwal Avinash
Res. J. Biotech.; Vol. 20(7); 237-245;
doi: https://doi.org/10.25303/207rjbt2370245; (2025)
Abstract
Pathogen- host interactions involve competition, synergistic or cooperation and
coexistence interactions. Host plant can also regulate niche battle among pathogens
by defense response which target one or more pathogens either actively or passively.
However, in general, virulent pathogens overcome the host defense strategies to
infect it. Plant-pathogen interactions are mainly focused on single host-single
disease model of infection.
However, microbes occur in complex communities in nature and plant infections generally
include more than one genotypes and show complexities which cannot be explained
by single host-single disease model. Here, we discuss recent understandings about
the host-multi-pathogen interactions and their effects on host resistance as well
as susceptibility. Here we highlight the recent insights on co-infection systems
and identify their future implications in plant disease epidemiology and management.
