PestNet
Could anyone please help me identify the white substance on this watermelon vine? I know this is not mealy bug or cocoons of parasitioid wasps. Is this some type of fungal fruiting structures?
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FreshPlaza
We have several requests for information on Dragon Fruit in the past, so I thought this might be useful. This is from the Philippines.
owing pest infestation in their plantations this harvest season.
Mildred Dacuycuy, operations manager of …
ProMED http://www.promedmail.org
Source: Cairns Local News [summ. Mod.DHA, edited] https://www.cairnslocalnews.com.au/latest-news/panama-tr4-detected-on-sixth-banana-farmPanama disease tropical race 4 (TR4) has been detected on a 6th commercial …
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by Kanaga Rajan , San Francisco State University It's not often that you see genetic systems described as "bizarre" in the title of a scientific research paper. That is unless it's from the lab of San Francisco …
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ProMED-mail is a program of the International Society for Infectious Diseases http://www.isid.org Source: HortiDaily [summ. Mod.DHA, edited] https://www.hortidaily.com/article/9438315/caby-virus-resurfaces-in-cucumber- …
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Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have shed new light on how plant life got established on the surface of our planet. They specifically demonstrated that two genes are crucial for terrestrial plants to protect …
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Anyone who reads even a little about science and technology will be familiar by now with the idea of genome sequencing. This process involves breaking an organism’s DNA into fragments to study their compositions or sequences. …
Read more...Climate change is making plants more vulnerable to disease. New research could help them fight back
A fuller account of the Nature paper of a previous post is here:
ScienceDaily
To keep food on the table in a warming world, researchers are bolstering plant immunity against the heat.
- Source:
- Duke University
- Summary:
- When heat waves hit, they don't just …
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
Heat waves increase the vulnerability of plants to infectious diseases by compromising their immunity. Short periods of high temperatures suppress the production of a defense hormone in plants called …
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