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Sydney NSW, Australia
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2017-12-05T14:00:00.0000000Z
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TOMATO LEAF CURL NEW DELHI VIRUS, ZUCCHINI - MOROCCO: FIRST REPORT (SOUSS-MASSA)

A ProMED-mail post <http://www.promedmail.org> ProMED-mail is a program of the International Society for Infectious Diseases <http://www.isid.org> Date: December 2017 Source: Plant Disease [edited] <https://apsjournals …

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Morocco
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Grahame Jackson
Sydney NSW, Australia
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2017-12-03T04:00:00.0000000Z
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Australia on alert after stink bug find in Sydney
Marmorated stink bug

FreshFruitPortal https://www.freshfruitportal.com/news/2017/12/05/australia-alert-stinkbug-find-sydney/?utm_source=Freshfruitportal.com&utm_campaign=286854aceb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_12_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_09f78bd3b2-286854aceb- …

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Australia
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Interception
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Grahame Jackson
Sydney NSW, Australia
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2017-12-02T04:00:00.0000000Z
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Dual impact of elevated temperature on plant defence and bacterial virulence in Arabidopsis

Nature Communications https://www.nature.com/ articles/s41467-017-01674-2 Abstract

Environmental conditions profoundly affect plant disease development; however, the underlying molecular bases are not well understood. Here we show that elevated …

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Pseudomonas_syringae_pv_tomato
Salicylic_acid
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Grahame Jackson
Sydney NSW, Australia
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2017-12-01T18:00:00.0000000Z
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Maize pest exploits plant defense compounds to protect itself

PhysOrg https://phys.org/news/2017-11-maize-pest-exploits-defense-compounds.html The western corn rootworm (Diabrotica virgifera virgifera), orginally from Central America, is more and more frequently found in Europe. Credit: Nowlan Freese, Max …

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Grahame Jackson
Sydney NSW, Australia
Identification request
2017-12-01T08:00:00.0000000Z
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Disease for identification on taro - The Maldives
Taro petiole lesions - The Maldives Taro leaf lesions - The Maldives

To Whom it may concern

I am writing on behalf of ministry of fisheries and agriculture of the Maldives. I would like to request you to please help us in identifying the condition that is evident in the attached pictures. 

Thank you for your …

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Grahame Jackson
Sydney NSW, Australia
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2017-12-01T08:00:00.0000000Z
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Whitefly takes a toll on coconut groves across south India
The Hindu (Note there is an error in The Hindu post, with paragraphs missing from that provided by the ICAR site). The text below has been amended to account for the missing paras).
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Kerala_India
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Rugose_spiralling_whitefly
Leiochrini_nilgirianus
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Grahame Jackson
Sydney NSW, Australia
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2017-11-30T22:00:00.0000000Z
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Belowground fungal interactions with trees help explain non-native plant invasions
EurekAlert

Melanie Taylor, U.S. FOREST SERVICE

New research published by a team of scientists from the USDA Forest Service and Purdue University suggests that tiny soil fungi that …

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Grahame Jackson
Sydney NSW, Australia
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2017-11-28T18:00:00.0000000Z
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Glyphosate - The German Vote has swung the EU decision

InfoPest https://mailchi.mp/infopest/infopest-news-amendment?e=654da733f0 Political decisions have clouded the science on popular herbicide, glyphosate. However, it appears that the cloud has lifted. The article published in Infopest News yesterday: …

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Grahame Jackson
Sydney NSW, Australia
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2017-11-28T14:00:00.0000000Z
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Study shows CRISPR mainly used to develop high-yielding, healthier, and stress-resistant crops

CropBiotechUptake http://www.isaaa.org/kc/cropbiotechupdate/article/default.asp?ID=16009

Scientists from France and the U.K. reviewed 52 articles on CRISPR use in crops published from 2014 to mid-2017 in peer-reviewed journals. The result is …

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Grahame Jackson
Sydney NSW, Australia
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2017-11-27T08:00:00.0000000Z
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Aberrant hyphae triggered by host immune responses to plant pathogenic fungus
Figure 2: TEM images of resistant Caliph leaves at 3 days after inoculation with M. pinodes. (A) Infection vesicle (V) emerged from the tip of an appressorium (Ap) to cell walls between guard cell (gc) and epidermal cell (ep), and infection …more Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-11-aberrant-hyphae-triggered-host-immune.html#jCp Figure 3: TEM images of resistant Caliph leaves at 3 days after inoculation with M. pinodes. (A) Infection vesicle (V) emerged from the tip of an appressorium (Ap) to cell walls between guard cell (gc) and epidermal cell (ep), and infection …more Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-11-aberrant-hyphae-triggered-host-immune.html#jCp Figure 1: Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) images of susceptible R108-1 leaves at 3 days after inoculation with M. pinodes. (A) Infection hyphae (arrows) that look like infection vesicles formed in the cell wall of the adaxial …more Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-11-aberrant-hyphae-triggered-host-immune.html#jCp

PhysOrg https://phys.org/news/2017-11-aberrant-hyphae-triggered-host-immune.html Kazuhiro Toyoda and colleagues at Okayama University examined the histology and ultrastructure of early infection events and fungal development, including …

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