Boxwood Leafminer Monarthropalpus flavus (Schrank) (Insecta: Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) [PDF]
EDIS, 2020 Boxwood leafminer, Monarthropalpusi flavus Schank (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae), is a gnat-like fly whose larvae can cause severe damage to boxwood (Buxus spp.) trees and shrubs across the United States.
Balwinder Kaur, Adam Dale
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Differential Adaptation Has Resulted in Aggressiveness Variation of Calonectria pseudonaviculata on Hosts Buxus, Pachysandra, and Sarcococca [PDF]
Journal of Fungi, 2023 Calonectria pseudonaviculata (Cps) infects Buxus (boxwood), Pachysandra (pachysandra), and Sarcococca spp. (sweet box); yet, how it adapts to its hosts has been unclear.
Ping Kong +2 more
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Differential Tolerance to Calonectria pseudonaviculata of English Boxwood Plants Associated with the Complexity of Culturable Fungal and Bacterial Endophyte Communities [PDF]
Plants, 2021 Isolated boxwood endophytes have been demonstrated to effectively protect boxwood plants from infection by Calonectria pseudonaviculata (Cps). However, the roles of endophytes as communities in plant defense are not clear.
Ping Kong +3 more
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Identification and Characterization of Fungal Pathogens Associated with Boxwood Diseases in the Republic of Korea [PDF]
The Plant Pathology Journal, 2022 Boxwood is a representative ornamental shrub that is widely used in landscaping horticulture. After pruning, damaged leaves or stems of boxwoods are unavoidably vulnerable to infection by various plant pathogens. Several boxwood diseases caused by fungi,
Soobin Shin, Jung-Eun Kim, Hokyoung Son
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Boxwood phyllosphere fungal and bacterial communities and their differential responses to film-forming anti-desiccants [PDF]
BMC Microbiology, 2023 Background Anti-desiccant is a class of agrochemicals widely used to protect plants from water stresses, rapid temperature variations, heat and sunburn, frost and freeze damages, transplant shock, and pathogen and pest attack.
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Epidemiology of boxwood blight in western North Carolina and Virginia and evaluation of the boxwood blight infection risk model [PDF]
Scientific ReportsBoxwood blight, caused by Calonectria pseudonaviculata, is a highly invasive emerging disease. Since the first US report in North Carolina and Connecticut in 2011, boxwood blight has spread to over 30 US states, risking more than 90% of boxwood ...
Ihsanul Khaliq +4 more
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Boxwood blight: an ongoing threat to ornamental and native boxwood
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2018 Boxwood blight is an emerging disease of ornamental and native boxwood plants in the family Buxaceae. First documented in the 1990s at a single location in England, the disease is now reported throughout Europe, Asia, New Zealand, and North America. To address the growing concern over boxwood blight, ongoing research focuses on multiple biological and ...
Jo Anne Crouch +2 more
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Characterization of the Soil Bacterial Community from Selected Boxwood Gardens across the United States [PDF]
Microorganisms, 2022 In a recent study, we observed a rapid decline of the boxwood blight pathogen Calonectria pseudonaviculata (Cps) soil population in all surveyed gardens across the United States, and we speculated that these garden soils might be suppressive to Cps. This
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Endophytic Burkholderia sp. SSG as a potential biofertilizer promoting boxwood growth [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 Background Burkholderia sp. SSG is a bacterial endophyte isolated from boxwood leaves showing a resistant response to infection by the boxwood blight pathogen Calonectria pseudonaviculata.
Ping Kong, Chuanxue Hong
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Metabarcoding-based characterization of the boxwood root-zone soil microbiome [PDF]
BMC Plant BiologyBackground Soil microbiomes are important for plant growth and health. The objectives of this study were to characterize boxwood root-zone microbial community and understand their associations with plant disease resistance and other horticultural traits.
Xiaoping Li +5 more
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