Plant Pandemic Studies

These are all the reports from our BSPP funded Plant Pandemic Studies, which were awarded 2020-2022

 

PPS9 Cassava Brown Streak – a deadly virus on the move

26th February 2023

By Fran Robson and Diane Hird. – Cassava is an important and versatile staple tropical root crop that feeds around …

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PPS8 Coffee Wilt Disease – The forgotten threat to coffee.

26th February 2023

Written by Lily Peck. Coffee is attacked by several highly damaging pests and diseases. Coffee rust is perhaps the best …

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PPS7 Pine Pitch Canker – a major disease comes to Europe

25th November 2022

Written by Rosa Sanchez-Lucas. There are around 120 species of pines. Their native range is predominantly in the northern hemisphere …

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PPS6: Potato Cyst Nematodes – a persistent and fearsome foe

25th November 2022

Written by Valeria Orlando. Nematodes, commonly called roundworms, represent one of the largest phyla of animals. Plant-parasitic nematodes cause significant …

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PPS5: Coffee Leaf Rust – Back with a Vengeance

25th November 2022

Written by Athina Koutouleas and David B. Collinge. Coffee leaf rust (CLR) is the oldest documented plant disease on one …

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Poster for PPS1: Huanglongbing – a century-long citrus pandemic

26th March 2021

Edited by Eric Boa and designed by Vick Fullick, this poster summarises the report from Lindsay Williams, Jade Bleau and Beatríz …

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PPS4: Pine Wilt Disease – A Global Threat to Forestry

20th January 2021

Written by Matthew Back, a Reader in Plant Nematology based at Harper Adams University in Shropshire. …

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PPS3: Ug99 Stem Rust – Breaching Wheat’s Defences

20th January 2021

Written by Nichola Hawkins, a post-doctoral researcher at the National Institute of Agricultural Botany in Cambridge. …

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PPS2: Ash Dieback – from Asia to Europe

24th December 2020

Written by Dáire Carroll, a PhD student working between the lab of Dr Miriam Gifford at the University of Warwick, …

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PPS1: Huanglongbing – A Century-Long Citrus Pandemic

24th December 2020

Written by Lindsay I.B. Williams, Jade R. Bleau, Beatriz Orosa at the University of Edinburgh. …

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