When Fusarium graminearum infects wheat, it can pose a risk to humans, animals and agriculture.
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Despite its 500-million-year history, the plant-fungi alliance holds mysteries that, once unravelled, could revolutionise agriculture and ecosystem management.
Spread by the wind, the fungal rusts are among the most feared of all plant diseases. A 2016 myrtle rust outbreak on Lord Howe Island was contained, but now its unique plants are again under threat.
Wheat is an important global crop, but new research suggests that fungal toxins have contaminated half of all European wheat produced for food.
The new rules are de facto non-tariff barriers to trade. They increase trade costs for South Africa’s citrus industry.
Stenophylla’s black cherries have brightened prospects for a coffee supply that can withstand rising disease, pests and droughts.
Entomologists worried about invasive pests have thousands of curious community scientists posting their findings online — and identifying new species.
Plant blindness can be solved but it wont be easy.
Diversity, resilience, resistance to disease: seeds must be preserved to ensure we can feed our world in the future.
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Lecturer, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences. Specializing in Education, University of Pretoria
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Emeritus Fellow in Plant Biochemistry, University of Westminster
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Senior Research Leader, Plant Resources, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Senior Lecturer, Molecular Fungal Biology, University of Bath
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Judith and David Coffey Chair in Sustainable Agriculture, Plant Breeding Institute, University of Sydney
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Professor of Economics, Centre for Competition, Regulation & Economic Development, UJ, and at SOAS University of London; advisor Shamba Centre for Food & Climate, University of Johannesburg
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Research Fellow, Waite Research Institute, Adelaide University
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Entomology, McGill University
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Professor and ARC Future Fellow, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University
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Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Life Sciences, University of Bath
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Professor of Development Economics, Department of Economics, SOAS University of London and Visiting Associate Professor, SARChI Industrial Development, SOAS, University of London
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Lecturer in Mycorrhizal Ecology, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Agriculture, Dalhousie University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University
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Senior Researcher, University of Johannesburg