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- How can the vulnerability and role of habitats alongside transport infrastructure be better understood regarding climate change, pests, and disease? How can we increase resilience?
- Ustilago maydis causes smut disease on corn.
- The movement of endemic fruit flies to new habitats represents a major biological and economic threat.
- Gastrointestinal nematodes are recognized as some of the most important causes of production losses in extensive sheep farming.
- Globally, invasive plant species cause negative impacts to human livelihoods and natural ecosystems, particularly in biodiversity hotspots.
- Fusarium head blight (FHB) incited by Fusarium graminearum Schwabe is a devastating disease of barley and other cereal crops worldwide.
- Red rot disease caused by Colletotrichum falcatum is major concern and it causes the loss of 10 to 25% to the sugarcane yield.
- Thrips are direct pests as well as vectors of important viruses infecting crop plants.
- The management of plant diseases in the sustainable agriculture has become a challenge for plant pathologist.
- Spodoptera frugiperda (fall armyworm) is a notorious pest that threatens maize production worldwide.
- Female Aphidoletes aphidimyza confronts serious challenges from both aphid prey and conspecifics.
- The Vietnamese rice landrace Tetep is known world-wide for its exceptional broad-spectrum and durable resistance to blast disease caused by Pyricularia oryzae.
- A wide variety of arthropod pests that cause damage in agricultural crops can be found worldwide.
- The Asian citrus psyllid (ACP), Diaphorina citri (Kuwayama) (Hemiptera: Liviidae), is a notorious Rutaceae plant pest.
- Animals living at high or temperate latitudes are challenged by extensive changes in environmental conditions over seasons.
- Bacterial blight (BB) is caused by Xanthomonas oryzae pv.
- The two-spotted spider mite is a destructive phytophagous of agricultural and horticultural crops.
- Botryosphaeria dothidea is one of the most important pathogens of apple trees in China.
- The South America tomato pinworm Tuta absoluta is a serious invasive species in Nigeria.
- Corn rootworms of the genus Diabrotica (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) are the most serious pest of corn in midwestern United States.
- Aspergillus flavus, the primary causal agent of aflatoxin contamination, includes many genetically diverse vegetative compatibility groups (VCGs).
- Banana bacterial sheath rot is a new disease causing significant economic losses in banana production in China.
- Scientific and societal unknowns make it difficult to predict how global environmental changes such as climate change and biological invasions will affect ecological systems.
- Sweet potato whitefly, Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae), is a devastating pest that can cause severe damage to a range of crops by direct feeding and by plant virus transmission.
- In several crop species within the Triticeae tribe of the grass family Poaceae, single major aluminum (Al) tolerance genes have been identified that effectively mitigate Al toxicity, a major abiotic constraint to crop production on acidic soils.
- Aphid-borne Watermelon mosaic virus (WMV; genus Potyvirus, family Potyviridae) is widely distributed in the Mediterranean area and is one of the most prevalent cucurbit viruses in the region (4).
- Stubby-root nematodes (family Trichoridae) are an economically important group of ectoparasites that feed on roots, vector tobraviruses, and cause substantial crop loss (1,2,3).
- The sustainability of control programs for the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata, for citrus crops in Spain has been threatened by the development of resistance to malathion and lambda-cyhalothrin in recent years.
- In Asia, the pine sawyer beetle Monochamus alternatus Hope (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) is the most important vector of the pinewood nematode Bursaphelenchus xylophilus Steiner and Buhrer (Aphelenchida: Parasitaphelenchidae), the causal agent of pine wilt disease, and the ectoparasitoid Scleroderma guani Xiao et Wu (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae) is the most important natural enemy of this pest.
- Root-knot nematode (RKN) Meloidogyne incognita stands out among the most harmful polyphagous endoparasite causing serious harm to plants, and distributed all over the globe.