Emerging infectious diseases of crop plants in developing countries: Impact on agriculture and socio-economic consequences

Food Security

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 113-132

  Vurro, Maurizio ^a   Bonciani, Barbara ^b   Vannacci, Giovanni ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF SCIENCES OF FOOD PRODUCTION   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Banana Xanthomonas Wilt; Cassava Mosaic Virus Disease; Emerging infectious diseases; Striga hermonthica; Wheat Rust Ug99

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DISEASE; CASSAVA; CROP PLANT; CULTIVATION; DEVELOPING WORLD; ECONOMIC IMPACT; EPIDEMIC; FOOD SECURITY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; SOCIAL IMPACT; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; URBANIZATION; VIRAL DISEASE; WEED CONTROL; YIELD RESPONSE;

EUROPE; UGANDA;

AFRICAN CASSAVA MOSAIC VIRUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; MANIHOT ESCULENTA; PUCCINIA GRAMINIS F. SP. TRITICI; STRIGA; STRIGA HERMONTHICA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; UREDINALES; XANTHOMONAS;

EID: 77952581569     PISSN: 18764517     EISSN: 18764525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12571-010-0062-7     Document Type: Review

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