A review of the most common and economically important diseases that undermine the cultivation of tomato crop in the mediterranean basin

S Panno, S Davino, AG Caruso, S Bertacca… - Agronomy, 2021 - mdpi.com
Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.), family Solanaceae, has become in the past fifty years
one of the most important and extensively grown horticultural crops in the Mediterranean …

[HTML][HTML] The importance of genomic variation for biodiversity, ecosystems and people

M Stange, RDH Barrett, AP Hendry - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The 2019 United Nations Global assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem
services estimated that approximately 1 million species are at risk of extinction. This …

[HTML][HTML] The diversity-generating benefits of a prokaryotic adaptive immune system

S van Houte, AKE Ekroth, JM Broniewski, H Chabas… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Prokaryotic CRISPR-Cas adaptive immune systems insert spacers derived from viruses and
other parasitic DNA elements into CRISPR loci to provide sequence-specific immunity,. This …

[图书][B] Socio-technical innovation bundles for agri-food systems transformation

CB Barrett, T Benton, J Fanzo, M Herrero, RJ Nelson… - 2022 - library.oapen.org
This open access book is the result of an expert panel convened by the Cornell Atkinson
Center for Sustainability and Nature Sustainability. The panel tackled the seventeen UN …

Integrating chytrid fungal parasites into plankton ecology: research gaps and needs

T Frenken, E Alacid, SA Berger… - Environmental …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Chytridiomycota, often referred to as chytrids, can be virulent parasites with the potential to
inflict mass mortalities on hosts, causing eg changes in phytoplankton size distributions and …

Epidemics and the future of coffee production

K Rhiney, Z Guido, C Knudson… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
In this perspective, we draw on recent scientific research on the coffee leaf rust (CLR)
epidemic that severely impacted several countries across Latin America and the Caribbean …

Inter‐individual variation promotes ecological success of populations and species: Evidence from experimental and comparative studies

A Forsman, L Wennersten - Ecography, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Biological diversity is threatened by exploitation, fragmentation of natural habitats, pollution,
climate change, and anthropogenic spread of species. The question of how among …

Higher plant diversity promotes higher diversity of fungal pathogens, while it decreases pathogen infection per plant

T Rottstock, J Joshi, V Kummer, M Fischer - Ecology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Fungal plant pathogens are common in natural communities where they affect plant
physiology, plant survival, and biomass production. Conversely, pathogen transmission and …

Climate change and habitat fragmentation drive the occurrence of Borrelia burgdorferi, the agent of Lyme disease, at the northeastern limit of its distribution

JA Simon, RR Marrotte, N Desrosiers… - Evolutionary …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Lyme borreliosis is rapidly emerging in Canada, and climate change is likely a key driver of
the northern spread of the disease in North America. We used field and modeling …

Understanding the emerging coronavirus: what it means for health security and infection prevention

A Peters, P Vetter, C Guitart, N Lotfinejad… - Journal of Hospital …, 2020 - Elsevier
The current outbreak (COVID-19) of the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) in China and the
beginning of its subsequent global spread is already impacting global health systems and …