Alviti Kankanamalage Hasith Priyashantha, Tibpromma Saowaluck, Garumuni Dilrukshi Nadeeshani Menike, Dissanayake Mudiyanselage Sarala Chamali Dissanayake, Dai Dong-Qin, Yang Jing-Ya, Lumyong Saisamorn, Karunarathna Samantha C
Center for Yunnan Plateau Biological Resources Protection and Utilization, College of Biology and Food Engineering, Qujing Normal University, Qujing, 655011, P.R. China.
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, 50200, Thailand.
Curr Microbiol. 2025 Aug 6;82(9):440. doi: 10.1007/s00284-025-04406-8.
In order to feed the growing population, food production must be increased while minimizing food losses. Nevertheless, diseases caused by pathogens, particularly fungi, are responsible for severe crop losses. Even in today's world, farming systems are prone to various fungal disease epidemics, and care should be taken to avoid disastrous disease outbreak events that the world experienced before. Maize, palm oil, potato, rice, soybean, sugarcane, and wheat are the topmost major crops cultivated extensively worldwide. Any severe disease outbreak that occurs in those crops could cause heartbreak to the world market, and people who are living under the poverty line are highly vulnerable to food insecurity. Given this scenario, we attempt to comprehensively summarize the literature, mainly emphasizing the value of disease control using novel and advanced technologies. Here, first, we discuss previous historical disease outbreaks to showcase what we could learn from the past. Second, new disease emergence/new records of causative agents have been brought to signify the continuing threat and future threat of disease epidemics. Subsequently, the article presents the reasons behind such disease outbreaks, and lastly, it brings the possible disease epidemic mitigating strategies for researchers, farmers, and governing bodies to rethink.
为了养活不断增长的人口，必须在尽量减少粮食损失的同时增加粮食产量。然而，由病原体尤其是真菌引起的疾病导致了严重的作物损失。即使在当今世界，农业系统仍容易遭受各种真菌病害流行，应注意避免世界以前经历过的灾难性疾病爆发事件。玉米、棕榈油、马铃薯、水稻、大豆、甘蔗和小麦是全球广泛种植的最重要的主要作物。这些作物中发生的任何严重疾病爆发都可能给世界市场带来重创，生活在贫困线以下的人们极易面临粮食不安全问题。鉴于这种情况，我们试图全面总结文献，主要强调使用新颖和先进技术进行疾病控制的价值。在此，首先，我们讨论以前的历史疾病爆发，以展示我们可以从过去学到什么。其次，新出现的疾病/病原体的新记录被提出来，以表明疾病流行的持续威胁和未来威胁。随后，本文阐述了此类疾病爆发背后的原因，最后，为研究人员、农民和管理机构提出了可能的减轻疾病流行的策略，供其重新思考。
