The ability to sequence genomes from ancient biological material has provided a rich source
of information for evolutionary biology and engaged considerable public interest. Although …

A rapid surge in world population leads to an increase in worldwide demand for agricultural
products. Nanotechnology and its applications in agriculture have appeared as a boon to …

Plants are the primary source of food for world's population. Diseases in plants can cause
yield loss, which can be mitigated by continual monitoring. Monitoring plant diseases …

Increasing human impacts on forests, including unintentional movement of pathogens,
climate change, and large-scale intensive plantations, are associated with an …

The sudden oak and sudden larch death pathogen Phytophthora ramorum emerged
simultaneously in the United States on oak and in Europe on Rhododendron in the 1990s …

New tools have revealed that migrations of Phytophthora infestans have been a dominant
feature of the population biology of this pathogen for the past 50 years, and maybe for the …

We are entering a new era in plant pathology in which whole-genome sequences of many
individuals of a pathogen species are becoming readily available. Population genomics …

The current list of Chinese quarantine pests includes 130 fungal species. However, recent
changes in the taxonomy of fungi following the one fungus= one name initiative and the …

Understanding the origins of variation in agricultural pathogens is of fundamental interest
and practical importance, especially for diseases that threaten food security. Fusarium …

This chapter discusses the major potato diseases worldwide: late blight, early blight, wart,
and powdery scab. Late blight, caused by the oomycete Phytophthora infestans, continues …