A brief survey of research on Pine Wilt Disease under various climatic conditions around the globe [PDF]
, 2023 Pine wilt disease (PWD), caused by the pinewood nematode (PWN) Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, causes significant losses in coniferous forests in eastern Asia, including Japan, China, and South Korea, as well as western Europe, including Portugal.
Khan, Abdul Ghaffar
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arXiv, 2016 Medical researchers are coming to appreciate that many diseases are in fact complex, heterogeneous syndromes composed of subpopulations that express different variants of a related complication. Time series data extracted from individual electronic health records (EHR) offer an exciting new way to study subtle differences in the way these diseases ...
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Tree diversity and species identity effects on soil fungi, protists and animals are context dependent [PDF]
, 2015 Plant species richness and the presence of certain influential species (sampling effect) drive the stability and functionality of ecosystems as well as primary production and biomass of consumers. However, little is known about these floristic effects on
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The Efficiency of Introduced Pisolithus tinctorius on Backcrossed Chestnut Germination and Survival. [PDF]
, 2012 American chestnut was eliminated as a canopy tree from the Appalachian region of North America with the introduction of chestnut blight in the early 1900s.
Bauman, Jenise +2 more
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Cd and Zn interactions and toxicity in ectomycorrhizal basidiomycetes in axenic culture [PDF]
, 2018 Background. Metal contamination in soils affects both above- and belowground communities, including soil microorganisms. Ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi are an important component in belowground community and tolerant strains have great potential in ...
De Oliveira, Vinicius H., Tibbett, Mark
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Local dynamics of the coffee rust disease and the potential effect of shade [PDF]
arXiv, 2015 In this paper we present a mode that incorporates two levels of dynamic structuring of the coffee rust disease (caused by the rust fungus, Hemileia vastatrix). First, two distinct spatial scales of transmission dynamics are interrogated with respect to the resultant structure of catastrophic transitions of epidemics.
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Automated Quantification of the Impact of the Wood-decay fungus Physisporinus vitreus on the Cell Wall Structure of Norway spruce by Tomographic Microscopy [PDF]
arXiv, 2011 Wood-decay fungi decompose their substrate by extracellular, degradative enzymes and play an important role in natural ecosystems by recycling carbon and minerals fixed in plants. Thereby, they cause significant damage to the wood structure and limit the use of wood as building material.
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Working with Mycorrhizas in Forestry and Agriculture [PDF]
Crop Production/Industries,
Bougher, Neale +4 more
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Termite mounds harness diurnal temperature oscillations for ventilation [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112.37 (2015):
11589-11593, 2017 Many species of millimetric fungus-harvesting termites collectively build uninhabited, massive mound structures enclosing a network of broad tunnels which protrude from the ground meters above their subterranean nests. It is widely accepted that the purpose of these mounds is to give the colony a controlled micro-climate in which to raise fungus and ...
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Estimating AutoAntibody Signatures to Detect Autoimmune Disease Patient Subsets [PDF]
arXiv, 2017 Autoimmune diseases are characterized by highly specific immune responses against molecules in self-tissues. Different autoimmune diseases are characterized by distinct immune responses, making autoantibodies useful for diagnosis and prediction. In many diseases, the targets of autoantibodies are incompletely defined.
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