Three years of surveillance associates agro-environmental factors with wireworm infestations in Manitoba, Canada.

Background: Wireworms, the soil-dwelling larvae of click beetles, are a major threat to global agricultural production. This is largely due to their generalist polyphagous feeding capabilities, extended and cryptic life cycles, and limited management options available. Although wireworms are well-documented as economically important pests in the Canadian Prairies, including Manitoba, there are gaps in knowledge on species distributions, subterranean behaviour and life cycles, feeding ecology and damage capacity, and economic thresholds for crop yield loss.

Clinical and hemodynamic outcomes of the Dor procedure in adults with ischemic cardiomyopathy.

Ischemic cardiomyopathy continues to be a major contributor to congestive heart failure, which places a significant burden on our healthcare system. Improving medications and different coronary revascularization strategies are the mainstays in the management of ischemic cardiomyopathy. Although medications and mechanical circulatory support are playing an ever-increasing role, cardiac transplantation remains the gold standard for treating advanced heart failure.

Genetic structure and population demographics of Hypnoidus bicolor (Coleoptera: Elateridae) in the Canadian Prairies.

Background: Following banning of the pesticide lindane in most counties, wireworms (i.e., the soil-living larval stages of click beetles) have become major pests of a variety of economically important field crops.

Applications of Next-Generation Sequencing for Large-Scale Pathogen Diagnoses in Soybean.

Soybean () has become an important crop in Manitoba, Canada, with a 10-fold increase in dedicated acreage over the past decade. Given the rapid increase in production, scarce information about foliar diseases present in the province has been recorded. In order to describe the foliar pathogens affecting this legume, we harnessed next-generation sequencing (NGS) to carry out a comprehensive survey across Manitoba in 2016.

First Complete Genome Sequence of Isolated from Soybean and from North America.

We present the first complete genome sequence of the tombusvirus (TNV-D) from North America, obtained from an infected soybean plant. Compared with the three other TNV-D genomes isolated from different geographic regions and host plants, its nucleotide identities were between 83% and 93%.

A sweet story: Bean pod mottle virus transmission dynamics by Mexican bean beetles (Epilachna varivestis).

Worldwide crop losses due to plant diseases exceed $60 billion annually. Next to fungi, viruses represent the greatest contributor to those losses, and these are transmitted in nature primarily by insects. Mexican bean beetles () are formidable pests of soybean, as well as efficient vectors of several soybean-infecting viruses, including (BPMV).