IS-MPMI members, including President Sheng Yang He, Immediate Past President Sophien Kamoun, along with Jeff Dangl, Jonathan Jones, and Xinnian Dong, were recently interviewed on plant defense in a cover story for The Scientist.

“Holding Their Ground,” gives a perspective on the ways scientists who specialize in plants are helping hold up a strong defense to pathogens. More and more research is being done on plant immunity, and new findings could present plant breeders with ways to compete with these harmful pathogens.

As with most things, the challenge will continue to be the overcoming of continuous adaptation to ever-changing plant and pathogen evolution.

Read what our members have to say about protecting the global food supply through enhancing plants’ pathogen resistance.