Focus and Scope
Plant Pest Interactions focuses on the complex relationships between plants, pest insects, and plant pathogens—an expanding interdisciplinary area with high global significance. Key areas are following:
- Plant insect interactions, host suitability and plant traits influencing pest colonisation.
- Mechanisms of herbivory, feeding behaviour, oviposition and pest bioecology.
- Tri trophic relationships among plants, insects and plant pathogens.
- Plant defence pathways, resistance mechanisms and induced immunity.
- Insect mediated transmission of viral, bacterial and fungal pathogens.
- Co infection and co infestation dynamics in crops and natural ecosystems.
- Climate driven shifts in pest outbreaks and emerging disease epidemics.
- Integrated pest and disease management, biocontrol strategies and early warning systems.
