New research in Nature Climate Change provides evidence that rising temperatures are likely to increase crop losses as warmer soils favor the growth of pathogenic soil fungi species.
Plants & Animals
May 12, 2020
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Flowering strips—pollinator-friendly rows of plants that increase foraging habitat for bees—can help offset pollinator decline but may also bring risks of higher pathogen infection rates for pollinators foraging in those ...
Plants & Animals
May 11, 2020
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When attacked by pathogenic microbes, plants protect themselves by deploying numerous secondary metabolites inhibitory to the pathogen. These metabolites are thought to nonspecifically inhibit both pathogenic and beneficial ...
Biotechnology
Apr 9, 2020
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Pathogenic fungi pose a huge and growing threat to global food security.
Biotechnology
Mar 30, 2020
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Researchers have discovered how a notorious pathogen may have hijacked one of nature's most enduring mutual relationships.
Plants & Animals
Feb 28, 2020
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A team of researchers at the University of Toronto has successfully tested a new strategy for identifying genetic resources critical for the ongoing battle against plant pathogens such as bacteria, fungi, and viruses that ...
Ecology
Feb 19, 2020
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Transmitted by insects, especially the aster leafhopper, aster yellows (AY) outbreaks can cause severe production losses in many crops, including carrots, lettuce, and canola. Canola is a billion-dollar crop for Canada but ...
Ecology
Feb 12, 2020
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To successfully combat a crop-threatening disease, it may be more important to educate growers about the effectiveness of control strategies than to emphasize the risk posed by the disease, according to new research by Alice ...
Biotechnology
Feb 6, 2020
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During visits to fields in Assam, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, India, plant biologists Muthappa Senthil-Kumar and Urooj Fatima found mustard plants infested with Alternaria blight disease. They also noticed that an adjacent ...
Biotechnology
Jan 29, 2020
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A new computational model shows how different patterns of crop rotation—planting different crops at different times in the same field—can impact long-term yield when the crops are threatened by plant pathogens. Maria ...
Ecology
Jan 16, 2020
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