The tropics produce a range of fruit from tree crops that cannot be grown in colder climates.
Bananas, mangos, several nuts, spices, coffee, and cacao are widely traded and much …

Emerging infectious plant diseases (EIPD) pose major challenges to global food systems.
We identified 14 EIPDs that can potentially inflict combined production losses worth over US …

Inferring invasion routes and identifying reservoirs of diversity of plant pathogens are
essential in proposing new strategies for their control. Magnaporthe oryzae, the fungus …

Fungi disperse spores to move across landscapes and spore liberation takes different
patterns. Many species release spores intermittently; others release spores at specific times …

Biologic invasions can have important ecological, economic and social consequences,
particularly when they involve the introduction and spread of plant invasive pathogens, as …

Understanding the causes of population subdivision is of fundamental importance, as
studying barriers to gene flow between populations may reveal key aspects of the process of …

Molecular epidemiology studies further our understanding of migrations of phytopathogenic
bacteria, the major determining factor in their emergence. Asiatic citrus canker, caused by X …

The role of adaptation in determining invasion success has been acknowledged recently,
notably through the accumulation of case studies of rapid evolution during bioinvasions …

The objective of this work was to evaluate the growth and the production of banana plants
with resistance to black leaf streak disease (BLSD), in comparison with the performance of …

• Premise of the study: Assessing propagule pressure and geographic origins of invasive
species provides insight into the invasion process. Rush skeletonweed (Chondrilla juncea; …