Alien species a growing menace: experts

Increasing trade blamed as pests destroy crops Alien species of plants and animals will become an increasing menace over the next decade due to the rapid development of the world economy and a lack of awareness of proper prevention measures, experts have warned. A greater number and variety of invasive species may be accidentally introduced [...]

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The Ever Increasing Importance of Plant Pathlogy

http://www.apsnet.org/publications/webcasts/Webcasts/ADrenth/player.html Subject: The role of plant pathology in feeding the world.  Presented by  Andre Drenth, Tree Pathology Centre, The University of Queensland at a plenary session of the APS Meeting.

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CABI Blogs

Want to hear what CABI’s experts have to say about important issues in the fields of agriculture and environment? Want to join the debate? Our CABI blogs keep you informed about trends and topics in these important fields. We have three active blogs at present: the Plantwise blog, the CABI invasives blog, and the Handpicked [...]

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Kudzu bugs threaten soybean crops

Kudzu — the “plant that ate the South” — has finally met a pest that’s just as voracious. Trouble is, the so-called “kudzu bug” is also fond of another East Asian transplant that we happen to like, and that is big money for American farmers: soybeans. (AP) http://news.yahoo.com/;_ylt=An1ZmSzfkywUupq2kpK7NO.s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTBucTM3cTFmBHNlYwNVSCBCcmFuZCBJZGVudGlmaWVy;_ylg=X3oDMTFpNzk0Njh         tBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdANob21lBHB0A3NlY3Rpb25z;_ylv=3 Kudzu bug (shown to the right [...]

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‘Super wheat’ resists devastating rust

Published in SciDev Net by Naomi Antony  17 June 2011 | EN http://www.scidev.net/en/news/-super-wheat-resists-devastating-rust.html Stem rust can destroy wheat crops Flickr/CIMMYT ‘Super varieties’ of wheat resistant to the deadly stem rust fungus Ug99 could replace wheat in affected areas in as little as two years — if farmers can be persuaded to adopt them, according to [...]

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Papaya Mealybug on the Move: Now in Pakistan

The papaya mealybug, Paracoccus marginatus has been on the move since it was found in Mexico in the 1955 but described in 1992. It has spread to the Caribbean, Florida, and South America, in the 1990s; Pacific in the early 2000; and it was found in Indonesia and Sri Lanka (2007), India (2008), Bangladesh (2009), [...]

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Pestnet (http://www.pestnet.org): Free on-line Crop Protection and Quarantine Advisory Service by Grahame Jackson, Australia    Pestnet (http://www.pestnet.org) is a free on-line crop protection and quarantine advisory service with more than 1000 members. Run entirely by volunteers, it was first established in 1999 for the Pacific. In 2001 it expanded to south Asia, and in 2003 [...]

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    Joint IOBC International Workshop on Parthenium and Chromolaena: Nairobi, Kenya, 1-5 November 2010 by Prof R. Muniappan, Director, IPM-CRSP, VA Tech,  Blacksburg, VA;  IAPPS Coordinator Region XI: North America The two neotropical plants, Parthenium hysterophorus and Chromolaena odorata have become serious invasive weeds in arid and humid regions, respectively in Asia and Africa. [...]

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Success Story: Biological Control of the Papaya Mealybug by Prof R. Muniappan, Director, IPM-CRSP, VA Tech,  Blacksburg, VA;  IAPPS Coordinator Region XI: North America The papaya mealybug, Paracoccus marginatus Williams and Granara de Willink (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) is a native of Mexico. The specimens of this mealybug were collected in 1955, but it was only described [...]

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