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Can Beauveria bassiana (Bals.-Criv.) Vuill. control the key fruit pests of the ...
Souza, Maria Eliza Cota e; Nobrega, Filomena; Bento, Albino; Souza, Maria Eliza Cota eSimple Summary Portugal has the largest chestnut tree plantation area for fruit production in Europe. The carpophagous pests Cydia splendana Hubner and Curculio elephas Gyllenhal are among the main pests that affect nut productivity and quality in the country. Their control is considered difficult due to the large size of the trees, and chestnut orchards are mostly located in mountain regions with high slopes. ...
Plant Metabolomics for the control of the root-lesion nematode Pratylenchus pen...
Vicente, Claudia; Faria, Jorge; Teixeira, Dora; Vieira, Paulo; Espada, Margarida; Barbosa, Pedro; Figueiredo, Joana; Cardoso, Joana; Esteves, IvaniaPratylenchus penetrans, one of the most detrimental root-lesion nematode species, greatly reduces the production in numerous important agronomic crops (e.g., corn, potato), ornamental plants (e.g., lily, roses) and fruit trees (e.g., almond, cherry orchards). In the EU, P. penetrans has been reported as the most damaging species associated with potato (Solanum tuberosum L.). In Portugal, this species was also d...
Potato Cyst Nematodes: geographical distribution, phylogenetic relationships an...
Camacho, Maria João; Andrade, Eugénia; Mota, Manuel; Nobrega, Filomena; Vicente, Claudia; Rusinque, Leidy; Inácio, Maria LurdesThe identification and phylogenetic relationships of potato cyst nematodes (PCN) were studied to assess the potential value of geographical distribution information for integrated pest management of potato production in Portugal. This research focused on PCN species, Globodera pallida and Globodera rostochiensis. From 2013 until 2019, 748 soil samples from the rhizosphere of different potato cultivars were surv...
Morphological and molecular identification of the potato cyst
Camacho, Maria; Nobrega, Filomena; Lima, Arlindo; Mota, Manuel; Inácio, MariaSummary – The potato cyst nematodes (PCN) Globodera rostochiensis and G. pallida pose one of the greatest threats to potato crops worldwide and are subject to strict quarantine regulations in many countries. The identification of these Globodera species based on morphology may be ambiguous due to the variability of the main morphological features and the overlapping of the standard parameters in these two speci...
First detection of Bursaphelenchus xylophilus associated with Pinus nigra in Po...
Inácio, Lurdes; Nobrega, Filomena; Vieira, Paulo; Bonifacio, Luis; Sousa, Edmundo; Mota, ManuelThe pinewood nematode (PWN), Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, is the causal agent of pine wilt disease. This species has been reported from the United States of America and Asia associated with important forestry tree species, including pine, spruce, fir, larch and other conifers. However, in Europe, the devastating epidemics centred in Portugal’s mainland, and the most recent detections in Madeira Island and in Spa...
A comprehensive assessment of the transcriptome of cork oak (Quercus suber) thr...
Pereira-Leal, Jose B.; Abreu, Isabel A.; Alabca, Claudia S.; Almeida, Maria Helena; Almeida, Paulo; Almeida, Tania; Amorim, Maria Isabel; Araujo, SusanaBackground: Cork oak (Quercus suber) is one of the rare trees with the ability to produce cork, a material widely used to make wine bottle stoppers, flooring and insulation materials, among many other uses. The molecular mechanisms of cork formation are still poorly understood, in great part due to the difficulty in studying a species with a long life-cycle and for which there is scarce molecular/genomic inform...