A Synoptic Review of Plant Disease Epidemics and Outbreaks Published in 2022.

This scientometric study reviews the scientific literature and CABI distribution records published in 2022 to find evidence of major disease outbreaks and first reports of pathogens in new locations or on new hosts. This is the second time we have done this, and this study builds on our work documenting and analyzing reports from 2021. Pathogens with three or more articles identified in 2022 literature were , , species complexes, ' Liberibacter asiaticus', , formae specialis, and f.

What Can Be Learned by a Synoptic Review of Plant Disease Epidemics and Outbreaks Published in 2021?

A synoptic review of plant disease epidemics and outbreaks was made using two complementary approaches. The first approach involved reviewing scientific literature published in 2021, in which quantitative data related to new plant disease epidemics or outbreaks were obtained via surveys or similar methodologies. The second approach involved retrieving new records added in 2021 to the CABI Distribution Database, which contains over a million global geographic records of organisms from over 50,000 species.

'I used to be a gardener': Connecting aged care residents to gardening and to each other through communal garden sites.

Objective: To explore residential aged care facility (RACF) residents' use of communal garden sites as spaces for gardening and social connection.

Methods: Phenomenological inquiry using semi-structured interviews with 13 residents, family members and staff of a rural RACF.

Results: Interest, ability and willingness to engage in communal garden sites were evident but limited by multiple factors.

Enhancing the conservation of crop wild relatives in England.

Humans require resilient, rapidly renewable and sustainable supplies of food and many other plant-derived supplies. However, the combined effects of climate change and population growth compromise the provision of these supplies particularly in respect to global food security. Crop wild relatives (CWR) contain higher genetic diversity than crops and harbour traits that can improve crop resilience and yield through plant breeding.