Among the many responsibilities of the worldwide scientific community are advancing the knowledge base that underpins each scientific discipline, addressing the pressing scientific issues of the day (e.g., emerging infectious diseases, food security, and climate change), and perhaps most importantly, educating and training subsequent generations of scientists. Yet, around the globe, advances in scientific and communications technology, proliferation and mining of data, and increasing financial constraints of university systems have led to fundamental changes in our institutions of higher learning. Increasing emphasis on interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches to problem solving in agriculture add to the complexity of providing robust preparation for the plant pathologists of the future. Thus, as the U.N. recognizes the year 2020 as the International Year of Plant Health , it is fair to ask if current approaches to graduate education in plant pathology are adequate to meet current and anticipated challenges and if the outcomes can be improved.

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在不断变化的世界中重新审视植物病理学研究生教育：全球需求和观点

世界科学界的众多责任之一是推进支撑每个科学学科的知识库，解决当今紧迫的科学问题（例如，新出现的传染病、粮食安全和气候变化），也许最重要的是，教育和培养后世科学家。然而，在全球范围内，科学和通信技术的进步、数据的扩散和挖掘以及大学系统日益严重的财政限制，导致我们的高等教育机构发生了根本性的变化。对解决农业问题的跨学科和多学科方法的日益重视增加了为未来的植物病理学家提供有力准备的复杂性。因此，作为联合国