Molecular interaction between tomato and Fusarium oxysporum

这个项目旨在培育抗真菌作物。农作物真菌病原体威胁着粮食生产和粮食安全。真菌尖孢镰刀菌是农作物中第五大最臭名昭著的真菌病原体。本项目将利用番茄-尖孢镰刀菌的病理系统来发现镰刀菌如何操纵植物感染它们以及植物如何抵抗镰刀菌感染。预期的结果包括利用基因组编辑技术培育抗枯萎病品种，减少番茄和其他作物的产量损失。

This project aims to develop fungus-resistant crops. Fungal pathogens of crop plants threaten food production food security. The fungus Fusarium oxysporum is the fifth most notorious fungal pathogens of crop plants. This project will use the tomato–Fusarium oxysporum pathosystem to discover how Fusarium manipulates plants to infect them and how plants can resist Fusarium infection. Anticipated outcomes include reduced yield loss in tomato and other crop plants by using genome-editing techniques to develop Fusarium-resistant cultivars.