Publications by authors named "Luciellen da Costa Ferreira"
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- About 90% of Peru's ginger production occurs in the Junín region, where suitable conditions for growing ginger plants are found.
- In March 2024, a significant portion of ginger plants in Junín showed severe disease symptoms, including yellowing and necrosis, leading to water and nutrient transport issues and potential plant death.
- Culturing diseased tissue revealed Ralstonia solanacearum species complex (RSSC) as the cause, confirmed through PCR methods, and isolates indicated characteristics of biovar 3 and phylotype I, with DNA sequences submitted to GenBank.
Food security, a critical concern amid global population growth, faces challenges in sustainable agricultural production due to significant yield losses caused by plant diseases, with a multitude of them caused by seedborne plant pathogen. With the expansion of the international seed market with global movement of this propagative plant material, and considering that about 90% of economically important crops grown from seeds, seed pathology emerged as an important discipline. Seed health testing is presently part of quality analysis and carried out by seed enterprises and governmental institutions looking forward to exclude a new pathogen in a country or site.
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