1. Horticultural crops biotic stresses in present climatic scenario 2. Conventional breeding for biotic stress management in horticultural crops 3. Hybrids and biotic stress tolerance in horticultural crops 4. Speed breeding for breeding the resistant or tolerant crops 5. Molecular breeding for biotic stress tolerance in horticultural crops 6. Epigenetics in horticultural crops: consequences and application in biotic stress tolerance 7. Genomics assisted breeding approaches for biotic stress tolerance 8.

Functional genomics approaches for combating the effect of biotic stresses 9. Crosstalk between miRNA and plant biotic stresses 10. Programmed Cell Death in plants: a key player for combating the effect of biotic stresses 11. Transcription Factors: A tool box for countering the effect of biotic stresses 12. Latest molecular and biochemical approaches for mitigating the effects of biotic stresses 13. Current approaches and molecular mechanism in horticultural crops to mitigate the effects of fungal diseases: 14. Current approaches in horticultural crops to mitigate the effects of bacterial diseases 15. Current approaches in horticultural crops to mitigate the effect of viral diseases 16.

Advancement in transgenics for combating biotic stresses 17. Recent applications of biotechnological approaches to elucidate the biology of plant-nematode interactions 18. Role of phytohormones as master regulators during the biotic stresses 19. Use of modern physical tools for mitigating the effect of biotic stresses.