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Current Status and Prospects of Virus Elimination in Economically Important Crops of Ethiopia Through Tissue Culture Practices: A Review

Advances in Agriculture, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.
Currently, huge crop losses in countries’ genetic resources result from emerging or re‐emerging plant viral diseases, making food security a constant challenge. A critical examination of recent tissue culture practices in Ethiopia reveals numerous limitations that have contributed to the limited advancements of plant tissue culture (PTC) techniques ...
Ashebir Gogile, Hemalatha Palanivel, Alazar Yeshitila, Kasi Rao Mediga, Abiram Karanam   +4 more
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Ecologically Based Management of Pineapple Mealybug Wilt: Controlling Dysmicoccus brevipes Mealybug Populations with Salicylic Acid Analogs and Plant Extracts

Horticulturae
Mealybug wilt of pineapple (MWP) is a destructive disease worldwide caused by a parasitic complex that includes Pineapple Mealybug Wilt-associated Viruses (PMWaVs) and mealybugs (Dysmicoccus brevipes), which concurrently act as vectors for these viruses.
Lysa N’Guessan, Marc Chillet, Frédéric Chiroleu, Alain Soler   +3 more
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Commodity risk assessment of Betula pendula and Betula pubescens plants from the UK

EFSA Journal, Volume 22, Issue 11, November 2024.
Abstract The European Commission requested the EFSA Panel on Plant Health to prepare and deliver risk assessments for commodities listed in Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2019 as ‘High risk plants, plant products and other objects’. This Scientific Opinion covers plant health risks posed by plants of Betula pendula and B.
EFSA Panel on Plant Health (PLH), Antonio Vicent Civera, Paula Baptista, Anna Berlin, Elisavet Chatzivassiliou, Jaime Cubero, Nik Cunniffe, Eduardo de la Peña, Nicolas Desneux, Francesco Di Serio, Anna Filipiak, Beata Hasiów‐Jaroszewska, Hervé Jactel, Blanca B. Landa, Lara Maistrello, David Makowski, Panagiotis Milonas, Nikos T. Papadopulos, Roel Potting, Hanna Susi, Dirk Jan Van Der Gaag, Andrea Battisti, Claude Bragard, Christer Sven Magnusson, Hugo Mas, Daniel Rigling, Massimo Faccoli, Alžběta Mikulová, Fabio Stergulc, Eugen Christoph, Olaf Mosbach‐Schulz, Franz Streissl, Paolo Gonthier   +32 more
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Field Investigations on the Interrelationships of the Big-Headed Ant, the Gray Pineapple Mealybug, and Pineapple Mealybug Wilt Disease in Hawaii [PDF]

, 1982
The population density of the big-headed ant was higher during the second (ratoon) crop than during the first crop of pineapple at both Poamoho and Molokai. At Poamoho, no mealybug wilt plants were found in plots where ants had been controlled, while the
Beardsley, John W., Gerling, Dan, McEwen, F.L., Su, Tsong Hong   +3 more
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Commodity risk assessment of maple veneer sheets from Canada

EFSA Journal, Volume 22, Issue 7, July 2024.
Abstract The European Commission requested the EFSA Panel on Plant Health to deliver a risk assessment on the likelihood of pest freedom from Union quarantine pests and pests subject to measures adopted pursuant to Article 30 of Regulation (EU) No 2016/2031 for the maple veneer sheets manufactured according to the process set out by Canada, with ...
EFSA Panel on Plant Health (PLH), Claude Bragard, Paula Baptista, Elisavet Chatzivassiliou, Francesco Di Serio, Josep Anton Jaques Miret, Annemarie Fejer Justesen, Alan MacLeod, Christer Sven Magnusson, Panagiotis Milonas, Juan A. Navas‐Cortes, Stephen Parnell, Roel Potting, Philippe Lucien Reignault, Emilio Stefani, Hans‐Hermann Thulke, Wopke Van der Werf, Antonio Vicent Civera, Jonathan Yuen, Lucia Zappalà, Andrea Battisti, Eugen Christoph, Hugo Mas, Daniel Rigling, Massimo Faccoli, Alžběta Mikulová, Olaf Mosbach‐Schulz, Fabio Stergulc, Franz Streissl, Paolo Gonthier   +29 more
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Short-term heat stress results in diminution of bacterial symbionts but has little effect on life history in adult female citrus mealybugs [PDF]

, 2014
Mealybugs are sap-feeding insect pests that pose a serious threat to horticulture. The citrus mealybug, Planococcus citri (Risso) (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae), like most other mealybug species, harbours two obligate maternally transmitted bacterial ...
Gobin, Bruno, Hughes, William O H, Parkinson, Jasmine F   +2 more
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The effects of agricultural output market access interventions on agricultural, socio‐economic, food security, and nutrition outcomes in low‐ and middle‐income countries: A systematic review

Campbell Systematic Reviews, Volume 20, Issue 2, June 2024.
Abstract Background An estimated two billion people do not have sufficient access to nutritious food, and nearly half are dependent on small‐scale and subsistence farming. Projections show that the global population is not on track to reach the Sustainable Development Goals.
Pierre Marion, Etienne Lwamba, Andrea Floridi, Suvarna Pande, Megha Bhattacharyya, Sarah Young, Paul Fenton Villar, Shannon Shisler   +7 more
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Functional response and control efficacy of Plesiochrysa ramburi and Apertochrysa roseusfrontata (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) on the Grey Pineapple Mealybug

Biological Control
The gray pineapple mealybug, Dysmicoccus neobrevipes Beardsley (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae), causes damage through sap-sucking, honeydew secretion, and potentially transmission of pineapple mealybug wilt-associated virus (PMWaV), thereby threatening the ...
Ziyuan Li, Linlin Shi, Jian Wen, Yanmei Zhang, Kewei Chen   +4 more
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Commodity risk assessment of Petunia spp. and Calibrachoa spp. unrooted cuttings from Kenya

EFSA Journal, Volume 22, Issue 4, April 2024.
Abstract The European Commission requested the EFSA Panel on Plant Health to evaluate the probability of entry of pests (likelihood of pest freedom at entry), including both regulated and non‐regulated pests, associated with unrooted cuttings of the genera Petunia and Calibrachoa produced under physical isolation in Kenya. The relevance of any pest for
EFSA Panel on Plant Health (PLH), Claude Bragard, Paula Baptista, Elisavet Chatzivassiliou, Francesco Di Serio, Paolo Gonthier, Josep Anton Jaques Miret, Annemarie Fejer Justesen, Alan MacLeod, Christer Sven Magnusson, Panagiotis Milonas, Juan A. Navas‐Cortes, Stephen Parnell, Philippe Lucien Reignault, Emilio Stefani, Hans‐Hermann Thulke, Wopke Van der Werf, Antonio Vicent Civera, Jonathan Yuen, Lucia Zappalà, Raghavendra Reddy Manda, Olaf Mosbach Schulz, Antigoni Akrivou, Spyridon Antonatos, Despoina Beris, Jane Debode, Christos Kritikos, Maria Kormpi, Christophe Lacomme, Charles Manceau, Dimitrios Papachristos, Chrysavgi Reppa, Ciro Gardi, Roel Potting   +33 more
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Incidência do Pineapple Mealybug wilt Associated VÍrus, PMWAV no Banco Ativo de Germoplasma de abacaxi in vitro da Embrapa Mandioca e Fruticultura. [PDF]

, 2011
O abacaxi (Ananas comosus var. comosus) é uma das frutas tropicais mais apreciadas no mundo. O Brasil, como um dos centros de origem e diversidade genética, tem se preocupado com a conservação de germoplasma desta importante fruteira.
ANDRADE, E. C. de, SANTOS, A. F. dos, SANTOS, K. C. dos   +2 more
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