🍅 Did you know tomatoes are actually fruits, not vegetables? And here’s another surprise: tomatoes contain lycopene, an antioxidant that gives them their beautiful red color. Nature is truly amazing! 🌱❤️ What tomato fact surprised you most?
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#plantpathology — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #plantpathology, aggregated by home.social.
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New post-doctoral research fellow position working with some of my colleagues/friends on wheat blast here in Wagga Wagga and Brazil via ANU, closes 2/9.
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Understanding red needle cast in NZ forests (BDIS podcast series)
"Red needle cast is one of the most significant diseases affecting New Zealand's radiata pine forests. In this episode of Scigest, scientist and host Darryl Herron sits down with forest pathologist Emily McLay to discuss why the disease is such a challenge for forest growers and how our science helps forest growers better predict, prepare for and manage it."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS30x6pdVL4 #NewZealand #Forestry #PlantPathology
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EPPO Study on the risk of
bark and ambrosia beetles
associated with imported
non-coniferous wood
2020-02-05"Recently new non-indigenous species of bark and ambrosia beetles have been introduced into Europe, which were not listed specifically as quarantine pests. It was also noted that ambrosia beetles are regularly intercepted in wood packaging material"
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Working on almond at UC Davis kept me so busy that I fell behind in my non-sponsored Ceratonia siliqua research. So I'm only now finding out that ambrosia beetle has emerged as an introduced pest in Italy and Spain.
This is a horrible shame because at least in many areas it grows, carob has faced remarkably low pest pressure compared to better-known crops.
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/10/3/82
https://www.foravila.net/foravilaverd/enguany-es-perdra-el-50-de-la-produccio-de-garrova/
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Giant willow tree falls in Boston Public Garden
A young woman happened to be there and took a series of photos of it falling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qThF6amt4p8 #UrbanForest #Tree #PlantPathology
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Researchers have discovered that specific bacteriophages infecting agriculturally significant bacterial plant pathogens can remain genetically stable for decades, challenging the widespread assumption that all viruses mutate rapidly.
#Virology #PlantPathology #Microbiology #Genomics #EvolutionaryBiology #sflorg
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Certain agricultural soils function as dynamic living systems capable of naturally inhibiting the infection and survival of devastating fungal pathogens, such as Sclerotinia sclerotiorum.
#AgriculturalScience #SoilEcology #Microbiology #PlantPathology #Botany #sflorg
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Botrytis cinerea, commonly known as gray mold, is a highly destructive necrotrophic agricultural fungus capable of infecting over a thousand plant species and causing massive global crop losses. Recent research reveals that the pathogen dynamically adjusts its infection strategy based on the specific plant it is attacking, defying previous assumptions about plant-pathogen interactions.
#PlantPathology #AgriculturalScience #Botany #Genetics #sflorg
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Wu et al. discuss recent work on systemic stomatal immunity (SSIM), a fast-acting, targeted #plant #defense mechanism in which #pathogen challenge triggers distal stomatal closure within hours.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.70245
@WileyLifeSci
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Why Florida’s Orange Industry Is In Free Fall
People like to complain about agricultural inspections at borders, but preventing something like this is why inspections are needed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guCkWXZlQfI #PlantPathology #PlantScience #FruitToot #Horticulture #Florida
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Free, but to ASHS members only, I guess.
ASHS is a good professional society if you're interested in fruit-growing and vegetable production. They do have a student level of membership too.
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Y0uelU8nRyyDYeOEthRPfg#/registration #Horticulture #PlantPathology #PlantScience #Botany #FruitToot #Midwest
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A breakthrough for climate-resilient crops
image: ©Pretti | iStock University of Sheffield scientists explore how plants can rapidly adapt to climate change through…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Genetics #Engineering #PlantPathology #Science
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Sharka, an Important Quarantine Disease for California: Risk Assessment through Almond Cultivars and Rootstocks Phenotyping
https://journals.ashs.org/view/journals/hortsci/60/11/article-p1959.xml
#Horticulture #PlantPathology #PlantBreeding #California #Biosafety
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White mold fungi split their genome across several nuclei, with implications for future gene editing
#Fungi #Genetics #Genome #WhiteMold #Microbiology #ScienceNews #UBCResearch #PlantPathology #Biotech #GeneEditing #Chromosomes #Mycology
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🌾 How close are we to using AI to design crops with supercharged immunity?
🔗 Learning the language of plant immunity: opportunities and challenges for AI-assisted modelling of fungal effector x host protein complexes. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csbj.2025.06.048
📚 CSBJ: https://www.csbj.org/
#PlantImmunity #PlantPathology #MolecularBiology #ProteinInteractions #StructuralBiology #CropProtection #FoodSecurity #AgriTech #FungalPathogens
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📗 'Effects of the #Rhizosphere microbial community in interspecific #Intercropping of rice on the resistance against rice blast' - an article from the Journal of #SouthernAgriculture on #ScienceOpen:
🔗 https://www.scienceopen.com/document?vid=1bc5d884-fdd9-4e8c-866f-502dcdd87731
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New publication: First Report of Rhizoctonia solani AG-3 Causing Black Scurf on Solanum tuberosum cv. Superchola in Cotopaxi, Ecuador. #plantpathology #plantdisease #blackscurf #potato
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🚨 First Look! My latest peer-reviewed co-authorship is now online in Phytopathology Journal 🧬🌾
📰 Fusarium avenaceum isolates from pea, wheat, & lentil were tested on these three host crops. Pea-derived isolates were the most "aggressive," which motivated our conclusion that inclusion of pea in a crop rotation can increase the incidence & severity of head blight in wheat.
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We know that gram-negative bacteria release extracellular vesicles into their surrounding environment--but why?
Deng et al. tell all in a new #JIPB paper!
https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13894
@wileyplantsci
#PlantSci #ROS #plant #disease #Pseudomonas #PlantPathology #phytopathology #botany -
Genetic variability in the 3'UTR RNA1 of tomato torrado #virus - implications for virus #transmission by whiteflies
The next paper from our lab
with Marta Budziszewska - the lead scientist
🦠🍅#torradovirus #plantscience #virology #plantpathology
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0885576525000438
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APS bacteriology Advancements Webinar on Jan. 16: "Challenges in Elucidating the Weapons of the Non-Model Plant-Pathogenic Bacterium Acidovorax citrulli" by Prof. Saul Burdman.
Register: bit.ly/3ZHxK9e
Moderator: Janak R. Joshi#PlantScience #PlantPathology #plantdisease #scicomm #APSWebinar
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Just as I was saying to the screen "because chestnut blight decimated the American Chestnut", Harper was looking it up on the internet and finding out the same thing...
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Historical outbreaks of #CoffeeWilt disease linked to gene transfer from another fungus https://phys.org/news/2024-12-historical-outbreaks-coffee-wilt-disease.html
Horizontal transfers between fungal #Fusarium species contributed to successive outbreaks of #coffee wilt disease: Lily Peck et al. https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002480
"The #fungus that causes coffee wilt disease repeatedly took up segments of DNA from a related fungal pathogen, which contributed to successive outbreaks of the disease."
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Like my new NLR? It's *designer*💅
Zhu et al report on a new designer nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat receptor in #rice that confers resistance to the blast #fungus Magnaporthe oryzae expressing AVR-Pita.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13805
@wileyplantsci
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APS bacteriology Advancements Webinar on November 14: "This Burns Me: Tales of Fire Blight Disease and the Bacterial Pathogen Erwinia amylovora" by Prof. George Sundin. Register here: bit.ly/4fHYFID.
Moderate by Mustafa O. Jibrin -
Passalora angelicae ex Angelica sylvestris
#Angelicasylvestris #Angelica #WaldEngelwurz #wildangelica #Angéliquedesbois #angélicasilvestre #Passalora #Passaloraangelicae #mushroom #mushrooms #fungus #fungi #pilz #pilze #champignon #nature #natur #FungiFriends #PlantPathology
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Study Analyzes Potato-Pathogen ‘Arms Race’ After Irish Famine
In an examination of the genetic material found in historic potato leaves researchers reveal more about the tit-for-tat evolutionary changes occurring in both potato plants and the pathogen that caused the 1840s Irish potato famine.
https://globalplantcouncil.org/study-analyzes-potato-pathogen-arms-race-after-irish-famine/ #PlantHealth #PlantScience #PlantSci #Potato #Research #Science #Plants #PlantPathology #Crops
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🍌 Discovery of ‘nitric oxide (NO) burst’ could help save world’s favourite banana from deadly fungus
By Ada McVean
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First report of Alternaria alternata causing black spots in carob (Ceratonia siliqua) leaves in Europe #PlantPathology #Gardening #Botany @gardening @plantscience
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42161-024-01741-w
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US Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is soliciting informed public comment on a draft list of taxa that are or that contain plant pests.
Comments will be accepted through October 7, 2024.
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"It turns out that millions of elms still exist across the UK, particularly in southern England, as small hedgerow shrubs. In fact, these stunted relics are, according to one government plant pathologist, more numerous than the pre-epidemic elm population"
#Elms #Trees #Biodiversity #PlantPathology #DutchElmDisease
Disease has killed most of the UK’s elm trees since the 1960s – but there are signs they may be making a comeback
https://theconversation.com/disease-has-killed-most-of-the-uks-elm-trees-since-the-1960s-but-there-are-signs-they-may-be-making-a-comeback-231778 -
Heading off to #PlantCanada in #Winnipeg. Looking forward to a bunch of interesting presentations and learning about advances in #plantscience #biotechnology #plantpathology #agriculture and more! #science
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🤔Have you ever wondered what VOC proteins do?
Guo et al. did. And what they discovered will improve our understanding of #plant-#virus interactions!Learn more at https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13667
@wileyplantsci #PlantScience #VOCprotein #protein #Nicotiana #BNYVV #PlantPathology #botany
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Always a nice surprise to get a mysterious package of diseased plant material in the mail. This one is likely Pseudomonas savastanoi pv. nerii causing galls on oleander leaves 🧪#plantpathology
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Scientists develop rapid gene-screening platform to boost disease resistance in crops
Scientists have achieved a breakthrough in molecular plant pathology, marking a technological leap forward for breeding durable disease-resistant crops.
https://globalplantcouncil.org/scientists-develop-rapid-gene-screening-platform-to-boost-disease-resistance-in-crops/ via CSIRO #PlantHealth #PlantScience #PlantSci #Science #Crops #PlantPathology
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Does anyone know what #PlantDisease is attacking my tomatoes?
The leaves are developing yellow blotches that start to crisp at the edges. Some of them have a lesion in the middle. And a very few have some dark spots. See pics.