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Highlights•Climate change is altering the distributions and impacts of plant pests and
diseases.•Observational data, predictive models and experimental manipulations are used …

Plastic pollution is one of the most pressing environmental and social issues of the 21st
century. Recent work has highlighted the atmosphere's role in transporting microplastics to …

Wheat productivity is threatened by global climate change. In several parts of NW Europe it
will get warmer and dryer during the main crop growing period. The resulting likely lower …

The wild relatives and progenitors of wheat have been widely used as sources of disease
resistance (R) genes. Molecular identification and characterization of these R genes …

Plant pathology has developed a wide range of concepts and tools for improving plant
disease management, including models for understanding and responding to new risks from …

Climate change already challenges people's livelihood globally and it also affects plant
health. Rising temperatures facilitate the introduction and establishment of unwanted …

Climate change, emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) and food security create a dangerous
nexus. Habitat interfaces, assumed to be efficient buffers, are being disrupted by human …

Wheat is one of the most important staple foods on earth. Leaf rust, stem rust and stripe rust,
caused by Puccini triticina, Puccinia f. sp. graminis and Puccinia f. sp. striiformis …

The atmospheric microbiome is one of the least studied microbiomes of our planet. One of
the most abundant, diverse and impactful parts of this microbiome is arguably fungal spores …