Climate Change Effects on Plant Disease: Genomes to Ecosystems

Research in the effects of climate change on plant disease continues to be limited, but some striking progress has been made. At the genomic level, advances in technologies for the high-throughput analysis of gene expression have made it possible to begin discriminating responses to different biotic and abiotic stressors and potential trade-offs in responses. At the scale of the individual plant, enough experiments have been performed to begin synthesizing the effects of climate variables on infection rates, though pathosystem-specific characteristics make synthesis challenging. Models of plant disease have now been developed to incorporate more sophisticated climate predictions. At the population level, the…

• NS
  National Science Foundation

  Awards: 0516046, 0130692, EPS-0236913, EF-0525712, 0236913
• UD
  U.S. Department of Energy

  Awards: FG02-04ER63892, DE-FG02-, DE-FG02
• UD
  U.S. Department of Agriculture
• US
  United States Agency for International Development

  Award: EPP-A-00-04-00013-00
• KS
  King Saud University
• NI
  National Institutes of Health

  Award: DEB-0516046
• OO
  Office of Science

  Award: DE-FG02-04ER63892