Fusarium Species Associated with Diseases of Major Tropical Fruit Crops

L Zakaria - Horticulturae, 2023 - mdpi.com
Mango, banana, papaya, pineapple, and avocado are categorized as major tropical fruits
grown for local consumption, export, and sources of income to the growers. These fruit crops …

Combating Fusarium Infection Using Bacillus-Based Antimicrobials

N Khan, M Maymon, AM Hirsch - Microorganisms, 2017 - mdpi.com
Despite efforts to control toxigenic Fusarium species, wilt and head-blight infections are
destructive and economically damaging diseases that have global effects. The utilization of …

Host range of Fusarium dieback and its ambrosia beetle (Coleoptera: Scolytinae) vector in southern California

A Eskalen, R Stouthamer, SC Lynch… - Plant …, 2013 - Am Phytopath Society
The polyphagous shot hole borer (PSHB) is an invasive ambrosia beetle that forms a
symbiosis with a new, as-yet-undescribed Fusarium sp., together causing Fusarium dieback …

Destructive tree diseases associated with ambrosia and bark beetles: black swan events in tree pathology?

RC Ploetz, J Hulcr, MJ Wingfield, ZW De Beer - Plant disease, 2013 - Am Phytopath Society
Diseases associated with ambrosia and bark beetles comprise some of the most significant
problems that have emerged on trees in the last century. They are caused by fungi in the …

The polyphagous shot hole borer (PSHB) and its fungal symbiont Fusarium euwallaceae: a new invasion in South Africa

T Paap, ZW De Beer, D Migliorini, WJ Nel… - Australasian Plant …, 2018 - Springer
The polyphagous shot hole borer (PSHB), an ambrosia beetle (Coleoptera: Curculeonidae:
Scolytinae) native to Asia, together with its fungal symbiont Fusarium euwallaceae, has …

Fusarium euwallaceae sp. nov.—a symbiotic fungus of Euwallacea sp., an invasive ambrosia beetle in Israel and California

S Freeman, M Sharon, M Maymon, Z Mendel… - Mycologia, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
The invasive Asian ambrosia beetle Euwallacea sp.(Coleoptera, Scolytinae, Xyleborini) and
a novel Fusarium sp. that it farms in its galleries as a source of nutrition causes serious …

An inordinate fondness for Fusarium: phylogenetic diversity of fusaria cultivated by ambrosia beetles in the genus Euwallacea on avocado and other plant hosts

MT Kasson, K O'Donnell, AP Rooney, S Sink… - Fungal Genetics and …, 2013 - Elsevier
Ambrosia beetle fungiculture represents one of the most ecologically and evolutionarily
successful symbioses, as evidenced by the 11 independent origins and 3500 species of …

Tracing the origin of a cryptic invader: phylogeography of the Euwallacea fornicatus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) species complex.

R Stouthamer, P Rugman-Jones, PQ Thu, A Eskalen… - 2017 - cabidigitallibrary.org
The ambrosia beetle morphologically identified as Euwallacea fornicatus consists of several
cryptic species that exhibit large differences in the DNA sequences of several nuclear and …

Discordant phylogenies suggest repeated host shifts in the Fusarium–Euwallacea ambrosia beetle mutualism

K O'Donnell, S Sink, R Libeskind-Hadas, J Hulcr… - Fungal Genetics and …, 2015 - Elsevier
The mutualism between xyleborine beetles in the genus Euwallacea (Coleoptera:
Curculionidae: Scolytinae) and members of the Ambrosia Fusarium Clade (AFC) represents …

The essential role of taxonomic expertise in the creation of DNA databases for the identification and delimitation of Southeast Asian ambrosia beetle species …

AI Cognato, G Sari, SM Smith, RA Beaver… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
DNA holds great potential for species identification and efforts to create a DNA database of
all animals and plants currently contains> 7.5 million sequences representing~ 300,000 …