This article outlines a selection of 13 challenges, specific to plant disease epidemiology, that are important targets for future work.
Published by: Epidemics, Year: 2015, Pages: 5, File type: External link (416 KB)
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This study formulates a mathematical model to investigate the transmission dynamics of cassava brown streak disease and the cost-effectiveness of control measures.
Published by: Plant Pathology, Year: 2015, Pages: 34, File type: External link (323 KB)
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The main aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence and diversity of the secondary endosymbiotic bacteria infecting cassava whiteflies with a view to better understand their role in insect population dynamics and virus disease epidemics.
Published by: BMC Microbiology, Year: 2015, File type: External link (2,971 KB)
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In this study, a field pathogenomics approach uncovered a dramatic shift in the UK population of Puccinia striiformis f. sp. Tritici (PST), likely due to the recent introduction of a diverse set of exotic PST lineages.
Published by: Genome Biology, Year: 2015, Pages: 15, File type: (2,129 KB)
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This study illustrates how Australia’s plant biosecurity response system is no longer locally driven but is now a top-down system, where national government leads coordination of a highly partitioned engagement process.
Published by: Ecology and Society, Year: 2015, Pages: 11, File type: External link (4,006 KB)
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The raison d’être of chemical ecology
This essay highlights the breadth of chemical ecology, from its historical focus on pheromonal communication, plant–insect interactions, and coevolution to frontier themes including community and ecosystem effects of chemically mediated species interactions.
Published by: Ecology, Year: 2015, Pages: 14, File type: External link (162 KB)
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A genetic map of cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) with integrated physical mapping of immunity-related genes
This study (the first so far) reports on an integrated high-density genetic map using single nucleotide polymorphisms with integrated genetic and physical localisation of newly annotated immunity-related genes in cassava.
Published by: BMC Genomics, Year: 2015, Pages: 16, File type: External link (3,688 KB)
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Dynamic maize responses to aphid feeding are revealed by a time series of transcriptomic and metabolomic assays
This study elucidated the metabolic processes and gene expression changes involved in maize responses to aphid attack by infesting leaves of the inbred line B73 with corn leaf aphids for 2 to 96 hours.
Published by: Plant Physiology, Year: 2015, Pages: 17, File type: External link (2,066 KB)
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High-resolution linkage map and chromosome-scale genome assembly for cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) from 10 populations
This study generated a framework map for M. esculenta Crantz from reduced representation sequencing (genotyping-by-sequencing) to assist in the rapid identification of pathogen resistance.
Published by: International Cassava Genertic Map Consortium, Year: 2015, File type: External link (1,294 KB)
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Assessment of the responses of cassava (Manihot esculenta) breeders’ germplasm to cassava mosaic virus infection in Kenya
This study evaluated seven cassava breeders’ germplasm to confirm that the absence of infections cannot be assumed from the absence of visual symptoms.
Published by: International Journal of Agronomy and Agricultural research, Year: 2015, Pages: 10, File type: External link (918 KB)
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