1. Advances in genetic mapping of loci governing disease resistance in plants
2. Genome editing to improve nutrition status of crop plants
3. Genomic selection for quantitative disease resistance in plants
4. Imperative role of Rgenes and associated molecular mechanisms in plant disease resistance
5. Applications of high throughput sequencing chemistries in decoding pathogen genomes
6. Effectors mediated pathogenicity
7. Role of Non-coding RNAs in disease resistance in plants
8. Implication of phytohormonal signaling and their molecular cross-talk during disease resistance in plants
9. Integrated omics approaches for plant disease resistance
10. Biotechnological tools for disease diagnostic
11.Transgenic plants for bacterial and fungal disease tolerance
12. Genome-editing advances for disease resistance in plants
13. Tomato as a model plant to understand Plant-microbial interactions
14. Transcription factors and their regulatory role in Plant defence response. 15. Role of effectors in plant-pathogen interactions
16. Transcriptomics of host-pathogen interaction.