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Julianna Piat talks Dutch Elm Disease (BSPP Plant Pathology Promotion Fund)

24th February 2021

Below, in her first vlog of three, Julianna Piat describes her outreach project on Dutch Elm Disease, which she started …

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CABI QUIZ FEB 2021 – 10 questions put together by CABI on plant pathogen diagnostics

18th February 2021

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Uncovering the diversity of Soybean rust in East Africa – ‘Plant Pathology’ Highlight

15th February 2021

“Rust never sleeps”, so goes the song. Yet, it is actually true that Phakopsora pachyrhizi, a biotrophic fungus that causes …

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Winners have been chosen for the BSPP Infographics Student Competition 2020

12th February 2021

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40 Faces of Plant Pathology – Biographies of 40 plant pathologists to be collected

8th February 2021

As part of the BSPP’s 40th year celebrations in 2021, we would like to collect biographies of at least 40 …

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Probing Historic Plant Collections. Is Hawthorn Powdery Mildew a threat to Australian Cherries? – ‘Plant Pathology’ Highlight

8th February 2021

Cherry Powdery Mildew is a quarantined disease in Australia. This disease causes significant yield loss to farmers from the US …

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Next Generation Sequencing and Historic Isolates

2nd February 2021

In the February issue of ‘Plant Pathology’, Senior Editor Matt Dickinson highlighted two new papers reflecting the power of Next …

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Plant virus detectives: Historical isolates, data-sharing and plantain virus X – ‘Plant Pathology’ Highlight

1st February 2021

Plant virologists across the world have compared their observations of a virus that appears to infect plants across the Solanaceae, …

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Hop Stunt Viroid, a Pathogen Profile – ‘Molecular Plant Pathology’ Highlight

28th January 2021

How does one of the smallest pathogens on earth cause dwarfing in Hop vines? Read this pathogen profile to discover …

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Novel effector biology research provides insights into devastating citrus greening disease

28th January 2021

FROM AMERICAN PHYTOPATHOLOGICAL SOCIETY Citrus greening disease, also known as Huanglongbing (HLB), is devastating to the citrus industry, causing unprecedented …

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Understanding disease-induced microbial shifts may reveal new crop management strategies (APS)

25th January 2021

AMERICAN PHYTOPATHOLOGICAL SOCIETY While humanity is facing the COVID-19 pandemic, the citrus industry is trying to manage its own devastating …

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Unique resistance gene to leaf spot disease for first time successfully introduced in wheat

23rd January 2021

From Wageningen University The fungus Zymoseptoria tritici is one of the most genetically diverse and devastating wheat pathogens in the …

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Delicious and disease-free: scientists attempting new citrus varieties – $4.67 million helps put new fruits to the test

22nd January 2021

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – RIVERSIDE UC Riverside scientists are betting an ancient solution will solve citrus growers’ biggest problem by …

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CABI QUIZ JAN 2021 – There are 10 questions as usual and they are all on diagnostics some relatively easy and some more difficult.

21st January 2021

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The BSPP Plant Pandemic Studies for 2020 are complete – Read the final reports here…

20th January 2021

Short reviews on the origins, emergence, spread, responses and impacts of major plant diseases …

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New study compiles four years of corn loss data from 26 states and Ontario, Canada

20th January 2021

AMERICAN PHYTOPATHOLOGICAL SOCIETY Plant pathologists working at universities across 26 corn-producing states in the United States and in Ontario, Canada, …

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The puzzle of nonhost resistance: why do pathogens harm some plants but not others? (APS)

18th January 2021

AMERICAN PHYTOPATHOLOGICAL SOCIETY People have puzzled for years why pathogen Phytophthora infestens causes the devastating late blight disease, source of the Irish …

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Research in the Time of Covid-19 – BSPP Blog 2

15th January 2021

New, more infectious strains of the Covid19 virus are emerging in human populations. Multiple vaccines are being trialled and deployed …

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Newly discovered protein sheds light on a sugar beet pathogen’s dark secrets – ‘Molecular Plant Pathology’ Highlight

11th January 2021

Cercospora beticola fungus is one of the most destructive foliar diseases of Sugar Beet worldwide and deploys a toxin, cercosporin, …

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BSPP Newsletter – Our latest newsletter has just been made available online….

3rd January 2021

Our latest newsletter is available to download …

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Happy New Year 2021 – 40 Years of the British Society for Plant Pathology

1st January 2021

In 1981 – the British Society for Plant Pathology was established as an independent society. This year we celebrate 40 …

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RprA, a small RNA orchestrating the spread of Fire Blight in the Apple tree host – ‘Molecular Plant Pathology’ Highlight

31st December 2020

Erwinia amylovora is a highly destructive bacterial pathogen that causes fire blight disease of fruit trees, such as apple and …

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Best Student Paper in Molecular Plant Pathology 2020 – Jiming Li

23rd December 2020

This year’s Best Student Paper Prize in ‘Molecular Plant Pathology’ was won by Jiming Li who studied Fusarium oxysporum during …

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Best Student Paper in Plant Pathology 2020 – Ines Vazquez-Iglesias

23rd December 2020

This year’s Best Student Paper Prize in ‘Plant Pathology’ was won by Ines Vazquez‐Iglesias. Ines studied Rose rosette virus (RRV), …

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