Climate change, a booster of disease outbreaks by the plant pathogen Phytophthora in oak forests

HA Contreras-Cornejo, J Larsen, SP Fernández-Pavía… - Rhizosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
In forests, trees such as oaks (Quercus spp.) fulfill key ecological functions, including nutrient
and water cycling. In the last decades, climate change and its related environmental …

The role of passive surveillance and citizen science in plant health

N Brown, A Pérez-Sierra, P Crow, S Parnell - CABI Agriculture and …, 2020 - Springer
The early detection of plant pests and diseases is vital to the success of any eradication or
control programme, but the resources for surveillance are often limited. Plant health …

Microbiome and infectivity studies reveal complex polyspecies tree disease in Acute Oak Decline

S Denman, J Doonan, E Ransom-Jones… - The ISME …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Decline-diseases are complex and becoming increasingly problematic to tree health
globally. Acute Oak Decline (AOD) is characterized by necrotic stem lesions and galleries of …

Oak decline caused by biotic and abiotic factors in Central Europe: a case study from the Czech Republic

M Macháčová, O Nakládal, M Samek, D Baťa, V Zumr… - Forests, 2022 - mdpi.com
Oak decline presenting symptoms of tracheomycosis have been observed globally over long
periods of time. Since the 1990s, oak decline has been considered to be a multifactorial …

Integrated multi-omic analysis of host-microbiota interactions in acute oak decline

M Broberg, J Doonan, F Mundt, S Denman… - Microbiome, 2018 - Springer
Background Britain's native oak species are currently under threat from acute oak decline
(AOD), a decline-disease where stem bleeds overlying necrotic lesions in the inner bark and …

Effect of trap color on captures of bark-and wood-boring beetles (Coleoptera; Buprestidae and Scolytinae) and associated predators

G Cavaletto, M Faccoli, L Marini, J Spaethe, G Magnani… - Insects, 2020 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Several wood-associated insects are inadvertently introduced every year
within wood-packaging materials used in international trade. These insects can cause …

Molecular Research on Stress Responses in Quercus spp.: From Classical Biochemistry to Systems Biology through Omics Analysis

M Escandón, MÁ Castillejo, JV Jorrín-Novo, MD Rey - Forests, 2021 - mdpi.com
The genus Quercus (oak), family Fagaceae, comprises around 500 species, being one of
the most important and dominant woody angiosperms in the Northern Hemisphere …

Host–microbiota–insect interactions drive emergent virulence in a complex tree disease

JM Doonan, M Broberg, S Denman… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Forest declines caused by climate disturbance, insect pests and microbial pathogens
threaten the global landscape, and tree diseases are increasingly attributed to the emergent …

Predisposition of forests to biotic disturbance: Predicting the distribution of Acute Oak Decline using environmental factors

N Brown, E Vanguelova, S Parnell… - Forest Ecology and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract In the UK, Acute Oak Decline (AOD) has caused much concern, due to its distinctive
symptoms and its potential to impact oak species that form the largest component of native …

Enhancing Buprestidae monitoring in Europe: Trap catches increase with a fluorescent yellow colour but not with the presence of decoys

A Kuhn, G San Martin, S Hasbroucq, T Beliën, J Bonte… - PloS one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
This study investigated the efficacy of various traps differing in colour (green or yellow),
presence or absence of decoys (dead Agrilus planipennis) or design (commercial MULTz or …