Publications by authors named "A M Madeiras"
Current and emerging plant diseases caused by obligate parasitic microbes such as rusts, downy mildews, and powdery mildews threaten worldwide crop production and food safety. These obligate parasites are typically unculturable in the laboratory, posing technical challenges to characterize them at the genetic and genomic level. Here we have developed a data analysis pipeline integrating several bioinformatic software programs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBasil (Ocimum spp.) is one of the most economically important and widely grown herbs in the world. Basil downy mildew, caused by Peronospora belbahrii, has become an important disease in sweet basil (O.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBlighting of Forsythia × intermedia 'Showoff' was first observed affecting several hundred plants in a commercial nursery in Connecticut in September 2012. Symptoms included wilting, leaf and stem blight, and dieback progressing to plant death. A Phytophthora sp.
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- Several disease forecast models for sooty blotch and flyspeck (SBFS) in apple are based on leaf wetness duration (LWD) starting from a biofix at the petal fall stage.
- These models show significant variation in recommendations for fungicide application timing, differing by up to 5 weeks, due to discrepancies in LWD thresholds and biofix definitions.
- To improve consistency, factors like data source variability, tree characteristics, and the growing understanding of fungal species involved must be addressed in the development of these models.