Effect of fumigants on inoculum of spp. in strawberry crowns and soil.

Florida's strawberry industry has been facing an emerging threat after several outbreaks of an aggressive sp. affecting fruit, leaf, and crown caused severe yield losses. Our studies found sp.

First Report of Powdery mildew Caused by on × in the U.S.

× , also known as common garden verbena, has an important ornamental value for their wide range of flower colors and for attracting hummingbirds and butterflies. During the winter of 2021-2022 (December through February), more than 50% pot-grown verbena plants showed symptoms of powdery mildew in a field trial at a Syngenta Crop Protection research facility in Vero Beach, FL. Symptoms were characterized by the development of white, superficial mycelium on the adaxial side of leaves which, eventually, progressed to covering the whole surface of leaves, causing leaf discoloration, shoot distortion, and eventual plant death.

Stroke awareness in a Brazilian Northeastern capital city and the burden of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background:  The delay in recognizing stroke symptoms is a significant obstacle to receiving acute treatment. Therefore, it is essential to understand the gaps in the knowledge about stroke among the general population and promote campaigns based on these gaps.

Objective:  To investigate the general knowledge about stroke in a capital in Northeastern Brazil in a sample of individuals who attended a public hospital and the impacts of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on the use of emergency services.

Long-term complications and outcomes of therapeutic embolization of cerebral arteriovenous malformations: a systematic review.

Background: Embolization is a promising treatment strategy for cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs). However, consensus regarding the main complications or long-term outcomes of embolization in AVMs remains lacking.

Objective: To characterize the most prevalent complications and long-term outcomes in patients with AVM undergoing therapeutic embolization.

The role of interacting social and institutional norms in stressed groundwater systems.

Groundwater resources play an important role for irrigation, particularly in arid and semi-arid regions, where groundwater depletion poses a critical threat to agricultural production and associated local livelihoods. However, the relationship between groundwater use, farming, and poverty, particularly with regards to informal mechanisms of resources management, remains poorly understood. Here, we assess this relationship by developing a behavioural model of groundwater user groups, empirically grounded in the politically fragile context of Tunisia.

A Semi-Selective Medium to Evaluate Over-Summering Survival of sp. in Florida Strawberry Fields.

Devastating disease outbreaks with leaf spot symptoms and fruit rot caused by a fungus identified as a cryptic species of have generated concern in the Florida strawberry industry. Some species are saprobes in soil and plant debris, but the ability of the new sp. to survive in strawberry debris was unknown.

Scale up urban agriculture to leverage transformative food systems change, advance social-ecological resilience and improve sustainability.

Scaling up urban agriculture could leverage transformative change, to build and maintain resilient and sustainable urban systems. Current understanding of drivers, processes and pathways for scaling up urban agriculture, however, remains fragmentary and largely siloed in disparate disciplines and sectors. Here we draw on multiple disciplinary domains to present an integrated conceptual framework of urban agriculture and synthesize literature to reveal its social-ecological effects across scales.

Identification of sequence mutations in Phytophthora cactorum genome associated with mefenoxam resistance and development of a molecular assay for the mutant detection in strawberry (F. × ananassa).

Phytophthora crown rot (PhCR) caused by Phytophthora cactorum is one of the most damaging diseases of strawberry worldwide. Mefenoxam is one of the major fungicides currently used to manage PhCR. However, the emergence and spread of resistant isolates have made controlling the pathogen in the field problematic.

Measurement properties of the Brazilian version of the Kidney Symptom Questionnaire.

Objective: The aim of this study was to measure the reliability, internal consistency, and construct validity of the Kidney Symptom Questionnaire for the Brazilian population.

Methods: This is a cross-cultural adaptation and questionnaire validation study. We included native Brazilians of both sex aged>18 years, as well as hypertensive and/or diabetic patients.

Old but Gold: Captan Is a Valuable Tool for Managing Anthracnose and Botrytis Fruit Rots and Improving Strawberry Yields Based on a Meta-Analysis.

Botrytis fruit rot (BFR) and anthracnose fruit rot (AFR) are diseases of concern to strawberry growers. Both diseases are managed mainly by fungicide applications from the nursery (plant production) to the end of the growing season (fruit production). In Florida, captan is the main broad-spectrum fungicide used to control BFR and AFR.

Efficacy of Single- and Multi-Site Fungicides Against spp. of Strawberry.

Recently, the Florida strawberry industry faced unprecedented outbreaks of an emerging disease caused by the fungus spp. Currently, there are no fungicides labeled to control this disease in the United States and the efficacy of single- and multisite fungicides is unknown. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the in vitro sensitivity of spp.

Phosphite Is More Effective Against Phytophthora Crown Rot and Leather Rot Caused by than .

Phytophthora crown rot (PhCR) and leather rot (LR) caused by spp. are major threats to strawberry production worldwide. In the United States, these diseases are mainly caused by ; however, has also been recently reported causing PhCR.

Harnessing the benefits of diversity to address socio-environmental governance challenges.

Solving complex problems, from biodiversity conservation to reducing inequality, requires large scale collective action among diverse stakeholders to achieve a common goal. Research relevant to meeting this challenge must model the interaction of stakeholders with diverse cognitive capabilities and the complexity of the problem faced by stakeholders to predict the success of collective action in various contexts. Here, we build a model from first principles of cognitive abilities, diversity, and socio-environmental complexity to identify the sets of conditions under which groups most effectively engage in collective action to solve governance problems.

Stroke in the state of Alagoas, Brazil: a descriptive analysis of a northeastern scenario.

Background: There is little information available on stroke epidemiology in the northeast of Brazil.

Objective: Our objective was to investigate the prevalence of the stroke subtypes, prevalence of cerebrovascular risk factors and patterns of management in a public neurovascular outpatient referral service, in Alagoas.

Methods: Data were prospectively collected from consecutive patients with stroke who were treated in a specialized neurovascular clinic between November 2016 and June 2018.

Resistance of Strawberry Cultivars and the Effects of Plant Ontogenesis on and Causing Crown Rot.

Phytophthora crown rot (PhCR) is an important disease of strawberry worldwide. is the most common causal agent, however, was also recently reported causing PhCR in the U.S.

A reassessment of the fungicidal efficacy of 1,3-dichloropropene, chloropicrin, and metam potassium against Macrophomina phaseolina in strawberry.

Background: The effectiveness of metam potassium, 1,3-dichloropropene, chloropicrin, and different ratios of 1,3-dichloropropene and chloropicrin on the reduction of natural and artificial inoculum of Macrophomina phaseolina were investigated in laboratory and field experiments. Additionally, a multivariate meta-analysis with data from six field trials conducted in Florida from 2012 to 2018 was performed.

Results: In small-plot field experiments using drip stakes, the highest rate (468 L ha ) of metam potassium was most effective in controlling M.

Sensitivity of Species Complex from Strawberry to Fungicide Alternatives to Quinone-Outside Inhibitors.

is a species complex that causes anthracnose fruit rot and root necrosis on strawberry. The major and minor species within the complex that affect strawberry production are and , respectively. The disease can significantly reduce yield under conducive weather, and its management has greatly relied on quinone-outside inhibitor fungicides (QoI).

Effect of a single high dose of vitamin D3 on cytokines, chemokines, and growth factor in patients with moderate to severe COVID-19.

Background: The modulating effect of vitamin D on cytokine concentrations in severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) remains unknown.

Objectives: We aimed to investigate the effect of a single high dose of vitamin D3 on cytokines, chemokines, and growth factor in hospitalized patients with moderate to severe COVID-19.

Methods: This is a post hoc, ancillary, and exploratory analysis from a multicenter, double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized clinical trial.

Conceptualizing ecosystem services using social-ecological networks.

Social-ecological networks (SENs) represent the complex relationships between ecological and social systems and are a useful tool for analyzing and managing ecosystem services. However, mainstreaming the application of SENs in ecosystem service research has been hindered by a lack of clarity about how to match research questions to ecosystem service conceptualizations in SEN (i.e.

Phytophthora Crown Rot of Florida Strawberry: Inoculum Sources and Thermotherapy of Transplants for Disease Management.

Phytophthora crown rot, caused mainly by but also by , reported in 2018, is an important disease in the Florida strawberry annual production system. Mefenoxam is the most effective and widely used fungicide to manage this disease. However, because of pathogen resistance, alternatives to chemical control are needed.