Crop diseases affect crop yield and quality and cause significant losses of total food
production worldwide. With the ever‐increasing world population and decreasing land and …

Recent methodological advances have uncovered tremendous microbial diversity
cohabiting in the same host plant, and many of these microbes cause disease. In this review …

The improvement and application of pest and disease models to analyse and predict yield
losses including those due to climate change is still a challenge for the scientific community …

Mathematical modelling and statistical inference provide a framework to evaluate different
non-pharmaceutical and pharmaceutical interventions for the control of epidemics that has …

Fungi are an integral part of the earth's biosphere. They are broadly distributed in all
continents and ecosystems and play a diversity of roles. Here, I review our current …

Sudden oak death, caused by Phytophthora ramorum, has killed millions of oak and tanoak
in California since its first detection in 1995. Despite some localized small-scale …

Biological invasions represent some of the most severe threats to local communities and
ecosystems. Among invasive species, the vector-borne pathogen Xylella fastidiosa is …

Highlights•Investigations of climate change impacts still concentrate on few crops and
pathogens.•Climate model ensembles can quantify some uncertainty in crop disease …

Pseudomonas syringae is the most frequently emerging group of plant pathogenic bacteria.
Because this bacterium is ubiquitous as an epiphyte and on various substrates in non …

In the past 2 decades, progress in molecular analyses of the plant immune system has
revealed key elements of a complex response network. Current paradigms depict the …