The global spread of crop pests and pathogens

DP Bebber, T Holmes, SJ Gurr - Global Ecology and …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
… (fungi, oomycetes, protozoa, bacteria and viruses) and crop distributions, host ranges and
… pest spread. We use the acronym CPP (crop pests and pathogens) hereafter to capture crop-…

A thousand-genome panel retraces the global spread and adaptation of a major fungal crop pathogen

A Feurtey, C Lorrain, MC McDonald, A Milgate… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
… We find that the global expansion … global spread. Our work shows how large population
genomic panels enable deep insights into the evolutionary trajectory of a major crop pathogen. …

Threats to global food security from emerging fungal and oomycete crop pathogens

HN Fones, DP Bebber, TM Chaloner, WT Kay… - Nature Food, 2020 - nature.com
… emergence and spread of new pathogens and problematic … of pathogens on new crops and
in new places. Here we review the factors affecting the introduction and spread of pathogens

Aerial dispersal of pathogens on the global and continental scales and its impact on plant disease

JKM Brown, MS Hovmøller - Science, 2002 - science.org
spread thereafter as airborne spores [V (9), VI (21), VII (22), and VIII (10)]. Orange circles
indicate the worldwide spread … of pathogens may cause diseases of crops on a global scale. As …

Crop pests and pathogens move polewards in a warming world

DP Bebber, MAT Ramotowski, SJ Gurr - Nature climate change, 2013 - nature.com
Global food security is threatened by the emergence and spread of crop pests and pathogens.
Spread is facilitated primarily by human transportation, but there is increasing concern …

Plant pathogen infection risk tracks global crop yields under climate change

TM Chaloner, SJ Gurr, DP Bebber - Nature Climate Change, 2021 - nature.com
… However, the likely changes in pathogen pressure in relation to global crop production are
… fungal and oomycete crop pathogens will track projected yield changes in 12 crops over the …

The global burden of pathogens and pests on major food crops

S Savary, L Willocquet, SJ Pethybridge… - Nature ecology & …, 2019 - nature.com
pathogen and pest basis for five major crops globally and in food security hotspots. Our results
document losses associated with 137 pathogens and … ) estimates at a global level and per …

Global cropland connectivity: A risk factor for invasion and saturation by emerging pathogens and pests

Y Xing, JF Hernandez Nopsa, KF Andersen… - …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
… Before we consider cropland connectivity risk for global crop systems, figure 3 is an illustration
of how the four metrics described above (betweenness, node strength, the sum of nearest …

Economic and physical determinants of the global distributions of crop pests and pathogens

DP Bebber, T Holmes, D Smith, SJ Gurr - New Phytologist, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Crop pests and pathogens pose a significant and growing … We present a global analysis of
pest and pathogen distributions, to … Known distributions of 1901 pests and pathogens were …

Rapid emergence of pathogens in agro-ecosystems: global threats to agricultural sustainability and food security

BA McDonald, EH Stukenbrock - … Transactions of the …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… where the crop grows, to make inference regarding the evolutionary history of the crop pathogen
… that some important crop pathogens have emerged from pathogen populations initially …