Applied Fruit Crop Pathology at Cornell University

https://www.theatlantic.com//worlds-trees-got-so-/616506/ How did it get so bad? In a word: globalization. Speedier travel and the rapid expansion of trade, including the movement of billions of plants for the horticulture industry, have proved disastrous. The scale of global trade is overwhelming attempts to control accidental imports of pests and pathogens, Buggs says. In the U.S., for instance, data from the Department of Transportation on 63 American ports show a doubling of the number of arriving shipping containers between 2000 and 2017.

https://news.cornell.edu//scientists-identify-new-pathogen

Acimovic lab's latest research with Fatemeh Khodadadi et al. on #ColletotrichumSpecies #AppleDiseases #PlantPathology has just been published with Springer Nature in Scientific Reports. Read here: https://rdcu.be/b5rPX

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-017-2109-7

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-47976-x