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Characterisation of an endospore population of Pasteuria that adheres to the plant-parasitic nematode Heterodera schachtii
Hirschfield, Ramona; Mohan, Sharad; Davies, Keith (2023-05-04)Selected strains of Pasteuria species from the endospore-forming Gram-positive bacteria group have the potential to be developed into control agents for plant-parasitic nematodes. If Pasteuria is to be deployed successfully ... -
Chemical warfare: the fungal quest to conquer oilseed rape
Fortune, James; Baker, Daniel; Stanley, James; Karandeni Dewage, Chinthani Shanika; Ritchie, Faye; Fitt, Bruce; Huang, Yongju (AFCP, 2021-06-16) -
A circular single-stranded DNA mycovirus infects plants and confers broad-spectrum fungal resistance
Wang, Xianhong; Kotta-Loizou, Ioly; Coutts, Robert H.A.; Deng, Huifang; Han, Zhenhao; Hong, Ni; Shafik, Karim; Wang, Liping; Guo, Yashuang; Yang, Mengmeng; Xu, Wenxing; Wang, Guoping (2024-06-03)Circular single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) viruses have been rarely found in fungi, and the evolutionary and ecological relationships among ssDNA viruses infecting fungi and other organisms remain unclear. In this study, a novel ... -
Combining Penthiopyrad with Azoxystrobin is an Effective Alternative to Control Seedling Damping-off Caused by Rhizoctonia solani on Sugar Beet
Qi, Aiming; Liu, Yangxi; Haque, Ehsanul, M.; Bhuiyan, M.Z.R; Khan, Mohamed F.R. (2020-09-01)The soil-borne fungus Rhizoctonia solani causes damping-off on sugar beet seedlings. Growers rely on fungicides to protect sugar beet in fields affected by R. solani. Quinone outside inhibitor (QoI) fungicides, such as ... -
Comparative phylogenetic analysis of vitellogenin in species of cyst and root-knot nematodes
Wileman, Hannah; Perry, Roland; Davies, Keith (2023-03-08)Plant-parasitic nematodes (PPN) are an economically important group of crop pests and are oviparous animals; all nutrients required to develop and ensure the survival of their unhatched progeny need to be deposited within ... -
Comparison of crown and root inoculation method for evaluating the reaction of sugar beet cultivars to Rhizoctonia solani AG 2-2 IIIB
Bhuiyan, Md Ziaur Rahman; Lakshman, Dilip K; Mendoza, Luis E. Del Río; Qi, Aiming; Khan, Mohamed F.R. (2023-01-30)Sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) is the second major economically important sugar-yielding crops in the world and the US ranked third in world sugar beet production. Sugar beet crown rot and root rot are caused by Rhizoctonia ... -
Comparison of pediatric and adult antibiotic-associated diarrhea and Clostridium difficile infections
McFarland, Lynne Vernice; Ozen, Metehan; Dinleyici, Ener Cagri; Goh, Shan (2016-03-21)Antibiotic-associated diarrhea (AAD) and Clostridium difficile infections (CDI) have been well studied for adult cases, but not as well in the pediatric population. Whether the disease process or response to treatments ... -
Completion of the sequence of the Aspergillus fumigatus partitivirus 1 genome.
Filippou, Charalampos; Coutts, Robert; Stevens, David A.; Sabino, Raquel; Kotta Loizou, Ioli (2020-05-27)A Portuguese isolate of Aspergillus fumigatus was found to contain three double-stranded (ds) RNA elements ranging in size from 1.1 to 1.8 kbp and comprising the genome of a strain of Aspergillus fumigatus partitivirus 1 ... -
Composition and characteristics of a transitional flora at Rough Hills grasslands, Bayfordbury
Mashanova, Alla; Scholes, Bronwyn; Denholm, Ian (2021-10-01) -
Conceptual System Dynamics and Agent-Based Modelling Simulation of Interorganisational Fairness in Food Value Chains: Research Agenda and Case Studies
McGarraghy, Seán; Olafsdottir, Gudrun; Kazakov, Rossen; Huber, Élise; Loveluck, William; Gudbrandsdottir, Ingunn Y.; Čechura, Lukáš; Esposito, Gianandrea; Samoggia, Antonella; Aubert, Pierre-Marie; Barling, David; Đurić, Ivan; Jaghdani, Tinoush J.; Thakur, Maitri; Saviolidis, Nína M.; Bogason, Sigurdur G. (2022-02-16)System dynamics and agent-based simulation modelling approaches have a potential as tools to evaluate the impact of policy related decision making in food value chains. The context is that a food value chain involves flows ... -
Conceptualising Disruptions in British Beef and Sheep Supply Chains during the COVID-19 Crisis
Payne-Gifford, Sophie; Whatford, Louise; Tak, Mehroosh; Van Winden, Steven; Barling, David (2022-01-21)This paper explores the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis as a disruptor to Britain’s beef and sheep supply chains. The assessment of COVID-19 impacts is based on the triangulation of farming and industry news reports, ... -
Concurrent growth rate and transcript analyses reveal essential gene stringency in Escherichia coli
Goh, Shan; Boberek, Jaroslaw M; Nakashima, Nobutaka; Stach, Jem; Good, Liam (2009-06-26)BACKGROUND: Genes essential for bacterial growth are of particular scientific interest. Many putative essential genes have been identified or predicted in several species, however, little is known about gene expression ... -
Contrasting Responses of Rhizosphere Bacterial, Fungal, Protist and Nematode Communities to Nitrogen Fertilisation and Crop Genotype in Field Grown Oilseed Rape (Brassica napus)
Picot, Emma; C. Hale, Chris; Hilton, Sally; Teakle, Graham; Schäfer, Hendrik; Huang, Yongju; Perryman, Sarah; S. West, Jon; D. Bending, Gary (2021-04-08)The rhizosphere microbiome is considered to play a key role in determining crop health. However, current understanding of the factors which shape assembly and composition of the microbiome is heavily biased toward bacterial ... -
Control of arable crop pathogens; climate change mitigation, impacts and adaptation
Fitt, Bruce; Stotz, Henrik; Hughes, David (Springer Nature, 2016-03-29)In the context of threats to global food security from impacts of damaging crop diseases and of climate change, this chapter describes three aspects of the interactions between climate change and diseases that reduce arable ... -
Control of crop diseases through Integrated Crop Management to deliver climate-smart farming systems for low and high input crop production
Richard, Benjamin; Qi, Aiming; Fitt, Bruce (2022-01)Abstract: Crop diseases affect crop yield and quality and cause significant losses of total food production worldwide. With the ever‐increasing world population and decreasing land and water resources, there is a need not ... -
Controlling strawberry powdery mildew with reduced number of fungicide sprays
Hall, Avice; Wileman, H J; Dodgson, Jolyon; Liu, Bo (2021-05-01)Strawberry powdery mildew (Podosphaera aphanis) is the most feared disease of strawberry under protection, environmental conditions under polythene are ideal for the growth of the fungi, with temperature and relative ... -
COVID-19, A Global Health Concern Requiring Science-Based Solutions
Sioen, G B; Daszak, P; Kone, B; Wannous, C; Watanabe, C; Pongsiri, P; Suzán, G; Morse, A; Jaakkola, J J K; Bowen, K; Boeckmann, M; Dida, G O; Harris, Frances; Gatzweiler, F W; Ma, W; Ebi, K (FutureEarth, 2020-06-26)Scientifically-based concrete action points to reduce the spread, lessen the impact, reduce the concerns of the wider population, and avoid further outbreaks for governments, organizations, and individuals are needed -
Co‐inoculation timing affects the interspecific interactions between phoma stem canker pathogens Leptosphaeria maculans and Leptosphaeria biglobosa : Co-inoculation timing affects interspecific interactions
Bingol, Evren; Qi, Aiming; Karandeni‐Dewage, Chinthani; Ritchie, Faye; Fitt, Bruce D. L.; Huang, Yong‐Ju (2024-03-30)BACKGROUND: Phoma stem canker is an economically important disease of oilseed rape, caused by two co-existing fungal pathogen species, Leptosphaeria maculans (Plenodomus lingam) and Leptosphaeria biglobosa (Plenodomus ... -
A cross sectional assessment of nutrient intake and the association of the inflammatory properties of nutrients and foods with symptom severity in a large cohort from the UK Multiple Sclerosis Registry
Coe, Shelly; Tektonidis, Thanasis G.; Coverdale, Clare; Penny, Sarah; Collett, Johnny; Chu, Bernard T.Y.; Izadi, Hooshang; Middleton, Rod; Dawes, Helen (2021-01)To assess the intake of nutrients in people with multiple sclerosis (pwMS) compared to a control population, and to assess the pro/ anti-inflammatory properties of nutrients/ foods and their relationships with fatigue and ... -
Current understanding of phoma stem canker and light leaf spot on oilseed rape in the UK
Huang, Yongju; Karandeni Dewage, Chinthani Shanika; Fitt, Bruce (University of Hertfordshire Press, 2021-06-16)Oilseed rape is the third most important arable crop in the UK. Phoma stem cankerand light leaf spot are two economically important diseases of this crop. These twodiseases cause annual yield losses of winter oilseed rape ...