A5108851149- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Plant pathogens and resistance mechanisms
- Plant Virus Research Studies
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
- Genetic and Environmental Crop Studies
- Plant tissue culture and regeneration
- Transgenic Plants and Applications
- Plant and animal studies
- Plant Disease Management Techniques
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Insect behavior and control techniques
- Plant and Fungal Interactions Research
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
2025
University of Arkansas System
2024-2025
Aberystwyth University
2023-2024
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
2023
Woody hosts are notoriously resistant to genetic transformation. Traditional methods, such as Agrobacterium-mediated transformation, often inefficient, and this limitation extends delivering infectious clones woody plants. Dodder species (Cuscuta spp.) holoparasitic plants that can establish direct connections with the vascular tissue of parasitized plants, allowing them facilitate virus transmission between unrelated botanical species. We demonstrated a novel dodder-based approach achieved...
This collaborative work by over 180 researchers from 40+ countries addresses the challenges posed “phantom agents”—putative pathogenic agents named in literature without supporting data on their existence. Those remain regulatory lists, creating barriers trade and plant certification. Historically identified based solely symptoms, these lack isolates or sequence data, making reliable detection risk assessment impossible. After reviewing 120 such across 10 key genera, we recommend removal...
Cucurbits (family Cucurbitaceae) includes globally important fruit and vegetable crops. Virus diseases pose a serious threat to cucurbits, limiting crop quality yield (Regina et al. 2021). In fall 2023, leaf samples from two squash plants with chlorotic mosaic symptoms distortion Monroe Pope counties in Arkansas were received for diagnosis at the University of Division Agriculture Plant Clinic. Based on symptoms, assessed melon severe orthotospovirus (MeSMV) using ImmunoStrip® developed...
Abstract Sphenostylis stenocarpa, commonly known as African yam bean (AYB), is an orphan crop with high nutritional properties but low yield production due to diseases. Hence, this study accessed the diversity and pathogenicity of fungi associated AYB in Southwest (SW) Nigeria a model area cultivation. The incidence infecting were surveyed Oyo, Ondo, Ekiti, Osun, Ogun states within SW during 2018 planting season. common field symptoms across all sites tiny spot, brown leaf blight, spot...