Posts Tagged ‘phytopathology’
A fungus has been deemed interesting and scary enough to grace the pages of Wired magazine along side Google’s search algorithm, the future of money, and a retrospective of the dotcom boom and bust. Way to go stem rust Ug99! Er…, make that “Oh drat. Starvation. That’s bad.”
Wheat Stem Rust on the Rampage
Thanks to a [...]
Tags: phytopathology, Puccinia gramminis, stem rust, Ug99, wheat rust, Wired
In the nation’s corn belt, worry still swirls about the wet growing season and the prospect for crop damage from mold. According to Late, Wet Corn Harvest Favors Ear Mold:
These ear molds may be of various colors, such as green, pink, white, red or black. Color is one distinguishing trait of various fungi that commonly [...]
Tags: corn, mycotoxins, phytopathology
As has been mentioned, the cool wet weather of 2009 is giving fungal plant pathogens a real good shot at making trouble for farmers. The latest alarm bell rings from Hoosier Ag Today in the article Gray and Pink Molds Prevalent in Indiana Cornfields by Julie Douglas.
An excerpt:
Wet, cool conditions not only keep farmers out [...]
Tags: corn, phytopathology
Researchers in Canada have announced the sequencing of the genome of Grosmannia clavigera, a fungus found in the mouth parts of the mountain pine beetle. According to Fungus genome boosts fight to save North American forests from Nature News:
“Mountain pine beetles (Dendroctonus ponderosae) have eaten their way through vast swathes of western North American pine [...]
Tags: genomics, Grosmannia, phytopathology, pine beetle
The wet year of 2009 has lead not only to good production of wild mushrooms, but outbreaks of plant pathogenic fungi as well. Economically valuable crops are under attack by a variety of fungal pests that seem to be on quite a roll this year.
Blueberry
Maine’s Wild Blueberry Crop Healthy, Despite Wet Weather: “Maine’s [...]
Tags: blueberry, phytopathology, potato blight, Ug99, walnut
A tweet sent by fungalgenomes makes the point that Phytopthora infestans, causative of agent of late blight, is not a fungus. Okay I agree. It’s a fungal protist, an Oomycete (commonly known as a water mold) occupying a place that is not exactly fungal, not exactly animal, not completely a typical protist. Oomyctes were formerly [...]
Tags: Oomyctes, phytopathology, Phytophthora
A blog at Discover magazine, Fungus Behind the Irish Potato Famine Strikes the U.S., sounds the alarm on a surge of potato late blight disease (Phytophthora infestans) affecting potatoes and tomatoes on the East coast of the USA. I have noticed a number of other recent web articles popping up on this topic in the [...]
Tags: blight, phytopathology, Phytophthora
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded a grant of $26.8 million to fight an increasingly worrisome threat to the world’s wheat harvest. The Durable Rust Resistance in Wheat project was founded to bring diverse resources to combat an emerging strain of Puccinia graminis (Basidiomycota) commonly called wheat stem rust. This new strain is [...]
Tags: phytopathology, wheat rust
