Emerging Plant Disease and Global Food Security Cluster, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695;
International Potato Center, 1558 Lima, Peru.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 Jun 8;118(23). doi: 10.1073/pnas.2022239118.
Plant disease outbreaks are increasing and threaten food security for the vulnerable in many areas of the world. Now a global human pandemic is threatening the health of millions on our planet. A stable, nutritious food supply will be needed to lift people out of poverty and improve health outcomes. Plant diseases, both endemic and recently emerging, are spreading and exacerbated by climate change, transmission with global food trade networks, pathogen spillover, and evolution of new pathogen lineages. In order to tackle these grand challenges, a new set of tools that include disease surveillance and improved detection technologies including pathogen sensors and predictive modeling and data analytics are needed to prevent future outbreaks. Herein, we describe an integrated research agenda that could help mitigate future plant disease pandemics.
植物疾病爆发正在增加，并威胁到世界许多地区弱势群体的粮食安全。现在，一场全球性的人类大流行病正威胁着我们地球上数百万人的健康。稳定、营养丰富的食物供应将是摆脱贫困和改善健康结果所必需的。植物疾病，包括地方性和最近出现的疾病，正在传播，并因气候变化、全球粮食贸易网络的传播、病原体溢出以及新病原体谱系的进化而加剧。为了应对这些重大挑战，需要一套新的工具，包括疾病监测和改进的检测技术，包括病原体传感器和预测建模以及数据分析，以防止未来的爆发。在此，我们描述了一个综合研究议程，这有助于减轻未来的植物疾病大流行。
