Plant disease and climate change

• DOI: 10.4324/9780203506608-14
• Publication Date: 2004-06-02
• Authors: Subhankar Chakrab...; Ireneo B. Pangga
• Keywords: Famine; Animal health; Fumonisin

Over US$76 billion from a US$225 global harvest of rice, wheat, barley, maize, potato, soybean, cotton and coffee are lost to plant diseases (Oerke et al., 1994). The costs managing disease growing less-profitable alternative crops among other significant economic impacts diseases. sociopolitical repercussions major epidemics such as the Irish potato famine (1845-1846) Bengal (Padmanabhan, 1973) threat human animal health (IARC, 1993; Payne Brown, 1998) mycotoxins fungal metabolites go far beyond simple economic impacts. In USA alone, aflatoxin, fumonisin deoxynivalenol cause over $1.5 loss (Cardwell 2001). Mycotoxins regularly suffering life in developing countries (Bhat 1988), where monitoring detection not advanced.