Sentences with phrase «plant diseases»

Scientists have found evidence that healthy soils help suppress plant diseases.

Not only do we get to hear a little bit about just how and why the microorganisms in worm compost help fight plant diseases, we also learn about when they don't.

Originally, the resin has served these trees as a type of antibiotic to protect against plant diseases.

An equally important, but often overlooked, disease control method is simply planting disease - resistant pepper varieties.

The Peruvian species, our guide said, was quickly dying out due to a massive spread of a certain plant disease.

And with the rising heat and changes in precipitation patterns, previously uncommon plant diseases could become more common.

Your fresh compost is nutrient - rich food for your garden and will help improve soil structure, maintain moisture levels and keep your soils pH balance in check while helping suppress plant disease.

His two - decade analysis of the phenomenon has resulted in a suite of techniques that can ultimately be used to fight plant diseases and make crops more efficient.

The second graders were able to ask the high schoolers about plant care and identification and prevention of plant diseases in preparation for planning their own classroom garden.

Use of a Synthetic Salicylic Acid Analog to Investigate the Roles of Methyl Salicylate and Its Esterases in Plant Disease Resistance

Their antifungal properties have shown great potential use for controlling plant diseases.

As a trainee plant pathologist, I could offer basic crop health and plant disease diagnostic support to small holder farmers in developing countries.

A novel link between tomato GRAS genes, plant disease resistance and mechanical stress response

PGPB can excrete high - affinity siderophores to chelate Fe [III] from bulk or rhizospheric soil and thereby making it available for the bacteria and plant cells; but at the same time, making it less available for the phytopathogens, thus preventing plant diseases (22).

The sequence is a «big deal» says John Taylor, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, because filamentous Ascomycota such as N. crassa are involved in most plant diseases.

Because bartonellosis cases also spike a few months after rising temperatures are registered, there is time to spray for sand flies in endemic areas, said Nelson Solórzano, who heads the bartonellosis unit at the hospital in Caraz The best investment now, Wilson said, would be in setting up regional surveillance networks of climatologists, entomologists and experts in human, animal and even plant diseases.

of Sulfur mixed with water every two weeks thereafter... this will help keep avoid pepper plant diseases and help keep overall pepper plant problems away.

After receiving her Ph.D., Nelson headed off to the Philippines to study plant disease and genetic mapping at the International Rice Research Institute, where she was partly funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.

On the other hand, cool and wet weather conditions can increase plant disease pressure and the lodging of the crop, making the crop difficult to harvest, as well as complicating the management of soils.

• Benzimidazole fungicides were introduced for plant disease control in the 1960s and early 1970s as foliar fungicides, seed treatments and for use in post harvest applications.

It usually dodges the Pepper plant diseases too...

Fertilization and strict weed and pest control are important; the plants are especially vulnerable to a number of pests and plant diseases like pepper budworm, mites, crickets, and aphids.

Bob started off teaching science with the Peace Corps in Africa and went on to research plant diseases in South America, Asia, and the USA.

The uptick in mosquito - borne diseases, for example, or the rapid spread of roya, an insidious plant disease that threatens our supply of coffee are all indirect consequences of deforestation and global warming.

Problems with plant diseases, rising labor costs, and competition from lower - priced imported peppers have led to a 75 percent decline in the acreage devoted to growing chiles in the state in the last twenty years.

The laboratories best accomplish soil testing, microscopic tissue examininations, and plant disease organism culturing.

Plant Science: from new breeding methods, to innovative fertiliser and irrigation techniques, to new paradigms in tackling plant diseases, plant science is being used to improve crop yields and reduce food waste.

Drawing on the horticultural research and experience of Cornell University, the Master Gardeners provide services to Ulster County residents that include pH soil testing, insect and plant disease identification and plant selection and care recommendations.

The other 400 - plus pondered generic plant disease, with no mention of specific crops or historic famines.

There's no known mad plant disease.

But it's important to follow your passion, and I'm proud of trying to ransack everything I know about plant diseases and packaging it into curricula for farmers.»

«Fighting plant disease at warm temperatures keeps food on the table.»

The conference gathered leading experts in plant diseases from 33 countries from all over the world to discuss the challenges and reduce the risks of disease epidemics and crop losses.

Many larger farms in the Philippines, where TR4 arrived in 2000, have learned to prevent its spread and have begun planting disease - tolerant varieties of Cavendish.

The internet - based outbreak reporting system — which reports on human, animal, and plant disease outbreaks — operates under the auspices of the International Society for Infectious Diseases.

That could enable effective protection from attack by a range of deadly plant diseases, Nürnberger says.

BABA has long been known for its protective effects against devastating plant diseases, such as potato blight, but has so far not been used widely in crop protection because of undesirable side effects.

Emergence of Virulence to SrTmp in the Ug99 Race Group of Wheat Stem Rust, Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici, in Africa / Plant Disease February 2016, Volume 100, Number 2, Page 522

First Report of the Ug99 Race Group of Wheat Stem Rust, Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici, in Egypt in 2014 / Plant Disease April 2016, Volume 100, Number 4, Page 863

Pathology (PAT): The study of plant disease states, and their causes, processes, and consequences.

Complexity in climate - change impacts: an analytical framework for effects mediated by plant disease.

A number of researchers have described plant disease expectations considering climate change variables, but without a Montana - specific focus (Canto et al. 2009; Chakraborty and Newton 2011; Garrett et al. 2011; Luck et al. 2011).

Fertilizer plays a key role in agriculture by increasing the production of staple crops, controlling fertility and reducing the risk to plants from pathogens and subsequent plant diseases.

No matter what the weather, teff crops will likely survive, as they are also relatively free of plant diseases compared to other cereal crops.

In addition, the presence of plant diseases plays a role in the successful growth and propagation of plant species.

3) Disease - suppressive soils: The use of disease - suppressive soils involves management practices that encourage crop - associated microbial communities that naturally reduce plant diseases and pests.

Not all of us are born with green thumbs, or with the specialized knowledge needed to diagnose plant diseases and formulate cures.