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Plant Pathology, Volume 71, Issue 1, Page 43-54, January 2022., 2022 The paper explores the nexus between plant health, food security, and culture at the heart of interventions led by researchers to achieve sustainable production of seed yam in Nigeria. Abstract Yam (Dioscorea rotundata) is a root and tuber crop throughout West Africa and has significant nutritional, economic, and cultural value, which underpins its ...
Stephen Morse
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Effector gene birth in plant parasitic nematodes: Neofunctionalization of a housekeeping glutathione synthetase gene. [PDF]
PLoS Genetics, 2018 Plant pathogens and parasites are a major threat to global food security. Plant parasitism has arisen four times independently within the phylum Nematoda, resulting in at least one parasite of every major food crop in the world.
Catherine J Lilley +8 more
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Advances in Agriculture, Volume 2022, Issue 1, 2022., 2022 The tomato is one of the most nutritious, economically important, and delicate vegetables grown in the world. It is highly susceptible to insect pests and microbial pathogens. The tomato leafminer moth, Tuta absoluta Meyrick, is the current impediment to tomato production in the world. The insect showed invasive and notorious behavior and was affecting
Birhan Aynalem, Xinqing Xiao
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Reproduction of Meloidogyne morocciensis (Tylenchida: Meloidogynidae) in weeds found in Brazil [PDF]
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2023 Weeds can be hosts of root-knot nematodes of the genus Meloidogyne. The importance of the species Meloidogyne morocciensis parasitizing many crops is recognized, but their reproductive capacity in weeds is not known.
TIAGO EDU KASPARY +5 more
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Commodity risk assessment of specified species of Lonicera potted plants from Turkey
EFSA Journal, Volume 20, Issue 1, January 2022., 2022 Abstract The European Commission requested the EFSA Panel on Plant Health to prepare and deliver risk assessments for commodities listed in the Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2019 as ‘High‐risk plants, plant products and other objects’. This Scientific Opinion covers plant health risks posed by potted plants (2–4 years old) of specified ...
EFSA Panel on Plant Health (EFSA PLH Panel) +24 more
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EDIS, 2012 The burrowing nematode is the most economically important nematode parasite of banana in the world. Infection causes toppling disease of banana, yellows disease of pepper and spreading decline of citrus.
Nicholas Sekora, William T. Crow
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A chromosomal assembly of the soybean cyst nematode genome
Molecular Ecology Resources, Volume 21, Issue 7, Page 2407-2422, October 2021., 2021 Abstract The soybean cyst nematode (Heterodera glycines) is a sedentary plant parasite that exceeds billion USD annually in yield losses. This problem is exacerbated by H. glycines populations overcoming the limited sources of natural resistance in soybean and by the lack of effective and safe alternative treatments.
Rick E. Masonbrink +4 more
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Biology, Taxonomy, and Management of the Root‐Knot Nematode (Meloidogyne incognita) in Sweet Potato
Advances in Agriculture, Volume 2021, Issue 1, 2021., 2021 Sweet potato is the seventh‐ranked food crop produced after wheat, rice, maize, potato, barley, and cassava in the world. It is the most important root tuber crop in temperate, subtropical, and tropical areas of the world. It is grown for food, income‐generating, and jobs for farmers and retailers. The important nutritional substances of sweet potatoes
Gebissa Yigezu Wendimu, Jiban Shrestha
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Arthropod Constructs and Host Plants
, 2022 The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, Volume 103, Issue 2, April 2022.
Cássio Cardoso Pereira +6 more
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EDIS, 2003 Bursaphelenchus cocophilus causes red ring disease of palms. Symptoms of red ring disease were first described on Trinidad coconut palms in 1905. Red ring disease can appear in several species of tropical palms, including date, Canary Island date and ...
Angela S. Brammer, William T. Crow
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