The grafting of apple rootstocks on to scions confers benefits including reduced tree size/dwarfing for trellis based growing systems, increased tolerance to physiological stress, and pest and disease management. The current study investigated the effect
Lucas A. Shuttleworth +2 more
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Isolation, characterisation and experimental evolution of phage that infect the horse chestnut tree pathogen, Pseudomonas syringae pv. aesculi [PDF]
Bleeding canker of horse chestnut trees is a bacterial disease, caused by the bacterium Pseudomonas syringae pv. aesculi, estimated to be present in ~ 50% of UK horse chestnut trees.
Jackson, Robert W. +4 more
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Ceratocystis platani (CP), an ascomycetous fungus, is the agent of canker stain, a lethal vascular disease of Platanus species. Ceratocystis platani has been listed as a quarantine pest (EPPO A2 list) due to extensive damage caused in Southern Europe and
Angela Brunetti +18 more
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Commodity risk assessment of oak and walnut logs from the US. [PDF]
Abstract The European Commission submitted to the EFSA Panel on Plant Health a Dossier from the United States proposing the use of a vacuum–steam–heat treatment as a stand‐alone phytosanitary measure to mitigate the risk of entry of Bretziella fagacearum, Geosmithia morbida and its vector Pityophthorus juglandis (thousand cankers disease complex) into ...
EFSA Panel on Plant Health (PLH) +30 more
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Effect of mycoviruses on growth, spore germination and pathogenicity of the fungus Fusarium circinatum [PDF]
Producción CientíficaAim of the study: To assess the impact on two mycoviruses recently described in F. circinatum mitovirus 1, and 2-2 (FcMV1 and FcMV2-2) on i) mycelial growth, ii) spore germination and iii) relative necrosis.
Díez Casero, Julio Javier +5 more
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IN VITRO EFFECTIVENESS OF FUNGICIDES AGAINST NEONECTRIA DITISSIMA, THE CAUSAL AGENT OF APPLE CANKER [IN VITRO ÚČINNOST FUNGICIDŮ PROTI NEONECTRIA DITISSIMA, PŮVODCI KOROVÉ RAKOVINY JABLONÍ] [PDF]
European canker of apple, caused by the fungal pathogen Neonectria ditissima, is a significant threat to the production of apples and other crops. This research aimed to evaluate the efficacy of commercially available plant protection products against N.
Zuzana Haňáčková +1 more
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Quantitative trait loci associated with apple endophytes during pathogen infection
The plant phyllosphere is colonized by microbial communities that can influence the fitness and growth of their host, including the host’s resilience to plant pathogens.There are multiple factors involved in shaping the assemblages of bacterial and ...
Amanda Karlström +4 more
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Vegetative incompatibility and potential involvement of a mycovirus in the Italian population of Geosmithia morbida [PDF]
Studies carried out during an Italian outbreak of the Thousand Cankers Disease of walnut, demonstrated that non-coalescing cankers on host plants, separated by equidistant uninfected zones, were associated with incompatible strains of Geosmithia morbida.
Berton, Valeria +3 more
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Potential control of forest diseases by solutions of chitosan oligomers, propolis and nanosilver [PDF]
Producción CientíficaThere is a growing necessity to replace chemical agents with ecofriendly materials, arising from the impact on the environment and/or human health, which calls for the design of new broad-spectrum fungicides.
Díez Casero, Julio Javier +5 more
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Bacterial Canker and Decline of European Hazelnut [PDF]
European hazelnut or filbert (Corylus avellana L.) is a small to medium-sized tree or shrub that is widely distributed in Europe from Portugal to the southern part of the Urals and from Norway (68° north latitude) to Spain, Italy, and Greece. It also is native to eastern and central Asia, including Turkey, Syria, and Iran, and to Algeria in northern ...
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