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Controlling crop disease contributes to both food security and climate change mitigation
(2009)
Global food security is threatened by crop diseases that account for average yield losses of 16 per cent, with the greatest losses experienced by subsistence farmers in the developing world. Climate change is exacerbating ...
Determining frequencies of avirulent alleles in airborne inoculum of Leptosphaeria maculans using molecular assays
(2009)
Control of blackleg (phoma stem canker) disease relies on crop management, fungicides and breeding for disease resistance. Proteins encoded by these resistance genes recognize avirulence (Avr) gene products in the fungus ...
Controlling crop disease to mitigate climate change
(Association of Applied Biologists, 2009)