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The Gordian Knot of Small Fruit Virology: Emerging Diseases and Their Control

Small fruit virology is one of the least studied areas of plant pathology. However, in the past decade, new virus diseases have caused substantial losses on all major small fruit crops. Read up on timely new research on these emerging diseases.

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Sheath Rot of Rice

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This Week at APS

APS Responds via CSAW to Yahoo's post on "useless" college majors.

Schroth Faces of the Future Symposium applications are due February 15.

Your photos could be on APS journal covers in 2012! include your highest resolution color files when you submit your papers.

Emerging Research

A Call for Papers for a special MPMI Focus Issue has been announced

MPMI invites original research manuscripts on the molecular biology and molecular genetics/genomics of parasitic interactions of nematodes and insects with plants for the issue. This special issue will bring added attention to critically important research that has shown significant progress in recent years. Three mini-reviews written by key scientists in the field will cover 1) nematode salivary proteins/effectors, 2) aphid salivary proteins/effectors, and 3) nematode-induced feeding structures.

Senior Editor for this special issue is Geert Smant, Professor of Nematology at Wageningen University, The Netherlands. Guest Senior Editors for this special issue are Saskia Hogenhout of the John Innes Centre in Norwich, United Kingdom and Melissa G. Mitchum of the University of Missouri, USA.

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Gene helps with leaf diseases in corn

February 2, 2012 | Ag Professional

Corn is one of the most widely grown crops in the United States, which produces 40 percent of the world crop. But as with all crops, diseases threaten corn production. more

University of Idaho Extension ready to help if two fungi threaten 2012 wheat crop

February 1, 2012 | SeedQuest

Idaho, USA February 1, 2012 Stripe rust and fusarium head blight (FHB) were the No. 1 and 2 worst threats in 2011 for southern Idaho wheat growers. Both are expected back in 2012. more

USDA/APHIS and EPA agree to share with each other information about genetically engineered plants and the foods derived from such plants, including non-public information exempt from public disclosure usually referred to as "confidential business inf

February 1, 2012 | SeedQuest

[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 21 (Wednesday, February 1, 2012)] [Notices] [Pages 5012-5013] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www. more

Worms, Not Pathogens, Likely Causes Green Bean Syndrome in Soybeans

February 1, 2012 | AG Watch Network

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.-(Univ. of Ark.)--Researchers have discovered the soybean disorder green bean syndrome, which causes delayed and uneven plant maturity, is not caused by a disease pathogen but likely by high populations of soybean budworms, also called corn earworms. more

Crop rotation and genetic resistance reduce risk of damage from Fusarium wilt in lettuce

January 31, 2012 | California Agriculture

California Agriculture 66(1):20-24. DOI: 10.3733/ca.v066n01p20. January-March 2012. author affiliations J.C. Scott is Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Plant Pathology, UC Davis; T. more

Boxwood blight appears in Oregon

January 31, 2012 | Capital Press

By MITCH LIES Capital Press State plant officials and the nursery industry hope to eradicate a plant disease new to Oregon before it gets a foothold. more

Researchers identify novel regulatory network within legumes

January 30, 2012 | PhysOrg.com

Jixian Zhai (left) with Blake Meyers (center), chair of the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, and Dong-Hoon Jeong. Credit: Evan Krape and Kathy F. Atkinson more

Florida citrus industry pounded by citrus greening disease

January 27, 2012 | Western Farm Press

Since 2006, the bacterial disease citrus greening has cost Florida’s economy an estimated $3.63 billion in lost revenues and 6,611 jobs by reducing orange juice production. The state’s juice-orange harvest for the period was 734 million boxes, and would have been an estimated 951 million boxes with more

Researchers keep eyes on potato virus

January 26, 2012 | Capital Press

PVY strain spreads through NW; website lets farmers follow research, learn more By JOHN O'CONNELL Capital Press A worrisome tuber necrotic strain of Potato virus Y, called NTN, is now present in Idaho, Washington, Oregon and Montana, according to results of the 2011 Washington Commercial Seed Lot more

Citrus greening costs Florida $3.63 billion, 6,611 jobs

January 26, 2012 | Southeast Farm Press

• Growers are the people most obviously impacted, but the study demonstrates that many other Floridians are hurt as well — when fewer oranges are harvested, there are fewer dollars circulating in the state’s economy. more

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