Special Issue on Plant Defense  

This special issue on “Plant Defense” will be focusing on the latest development in plant sciences and technology. Plants do not have immune system like animals，but plants have kinds of defenses to detect herbivores and pathogens and stop them before they cause damage. Plant defense which consists of constitutive defense and induced defense can help plants improve their survival and reproduction. The goal of this special issue is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in this area of plant defense.

In this special issue, we intend to invite front-line researchers and authors to submit original research and review articles on exploring plant defense. In this special issue, potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Plant defense against herbivory
• Plant tolerance to herbivory
• Plant use of endophytic fungi in defense 
• Plant disease resistance
• Evolution of defensive traits

Authors should read over the journal’s Authors’ Guidelines carefully before submission. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal’s Paper Submission System.

Please kindly notice that the “Special Issue” under your manuscript title is supposed to be specified and the research field “Special Issue – Plant Defense” should be chosen during your submission.

According to the following timetable:

Submission Deadline	March 12th, 2015
Publication Date	May 2015

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