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2025-01-16T23:47:00.0000000Z

CSIRO

Our researchers have developed a system to alert biosecurity authorities when observations of invasive pests and weeds in the environment are uploaded to the Atlas of Living Australia.ur researchers have developed a system to alert biosecurity&# …

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2025-01-15T00:47:00.0000000Z
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CerambycID

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CerambycID

ITP collaborator: Michigan State University

Authors: Patrick Gorring, Anthony Cognato, Sarah Smith, and Amanda Redford

USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service’s Identification Technology Program (ITP) is pleased to announce …

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CerambycID
Sydney NSW, Australia
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2024-12-28T01:45:00.0000000Z

Phys.Org https://phys.org/news/2024-12-historical-outbreaks-coffee-wilt-disease.html

by Public Library of Science

The fungus that causes coffee wilt disease repeatedly took up segments of DNA from a related fungal pathogen, which contributed to …

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Fusarium_xylarioides
Sydney NSW, Australia
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2024-12-28T01:32:00.0000000Z

UC Berkeley News

UC Berkeley researchers used bacterial DNA from a 120-year-old herbarium specimen to reconstruct the history of Pierce’s disease in California.

By Kara Manke

A century-old grapevine cutting is providing new clues into the history …

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Grapevine
Sydney NSW, Australia
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2024-12-28T01:28:00.0000000Z

Frontiers

  • 1 The James Hutton Institute, Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom
  • 2 University of Cambridge, Cambridge, …
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Nematodes
Sydney NSW, Australia
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2024-12-27T22:55:00.0000000Z

Farming Online

  • Groundbreaking project successfully trains detection dogs to specifically identify the tree pathogen Phytophthora ramorum.
  • Trial results show trained spanador -  a cocker spaniel labrador cross -  achieve 89% successful first- …
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Sydney NSW, Australia
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2024-12-27T22:42:00.0000000Z

University of Cordoba https://www.uco.es/ucci/es/noticias-ingles/item/4110-study-explains-how-a-fungus-helps-plants-to-acquire-more-iron-in-a-sustainable-way

After verifying its potential as a pest biocontrol agent, a team at the University of Cordoba …

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Iron
Sydney NSW, Australia
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2024-12-27T22:39:00.0000000Z

Phys.Org https://phys.org/news/2024-12-wood-wide-web-tree-nutrient.html

by University of Göttingen

The idea of trees "talking" to one another through underground fungal networks—the so-called "wood wide web"—has captured …

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Ectomycorrhizal_fungi
Sydney NSW, Australia
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2024-12-27T11:44:00.0000000Z

John Innes Centre

The capacity of bacteria to spread disease across the Plant Kingdom may be much more widespread than previously suspected, according to new analysis. 

John Innes Centre researchers took a comparative evolutionary approach, using …

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Evolution
Toxins
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2024-12-26T22:15:00.0000000Z

ScienceDaily

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Despite their reputation as buzzing nuisances, flies serve a critical role as some of the Earth's most prolific pollinators -- and new research led by Penn State scientists suggests they are increasingly at risk …

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