Research in the effects of climate change on plant disease continues to be limited, but some
striking progress has been made. At the genomic level, advances in technologies for the …

Plant disease outbreaks are increasing and threaten food security for the vulnerable in many
areas of the world. Now a global human pandemic is threatening the health of millions on …

Pyrosequencing was used to study the effect of rotation and tillage on total bacterial communities.
We designed primers to the bacterial 16s rDNA and amplified DNA from soil samples …

Drought stress is an alarming constraint to plant growth, development, and productivity
worldwide. However, plant-associated bacteria, fungi, and viruses can enhance stress resistance …

More than two-thirds of cropland in the United States is devoted to the production of just four
crop species—maize, wheat, soybeans, and cotton—raising concerns that homogenization …

Sustainability of global fisheries is a growing concern. The United Nations has identified
three pillars of sustainability: economic development, social development, and environmental …

To satisfy a growing demand for food, global agricultural production must increase by 70%
by 2050. However, pests and crop diseases put global food supplies at risk. Worldwide, yield …

The impacts of climate change on ecosystem services are complex in the sense that effective
prediction requires consideration of a wide range of factors. Useful analysis of climate‐…

The response of plant disease to weather variables such as temperature and precipitation is
well known and has been the basis for disease forecasting models used in decision-making …

Abstract: Global climate change represents a major threat to sustainable farming in the Andes.
Farmers have used local ecological knowledge and intricate production systems to cope, …