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Q-bank Phytoplasmas database

Q-bank Phytoplasmas database | Plant health | Scoop.it

The Q-bank Phytoplasma database contains DNA sequences (Barcodes) of more than 100 strains that are of relevance to phytoplasma phytopathology.

 

Q-bank offers descriptions of well characterized regulated plants pests. It comprises ecological, morphological, physiological, and sequence data of items that are available in physical collections of plantpathogenic bacteria, fungi, insects, nematodes, phytoplasmas, viruses and viroids, and invasive plants.

 

The entries in Q-bank are continuously updated by a team of curators with taxonomic, phytosanitary and diagnostic expertise from world-wide national plant protection organizations and institutes with connections to relevant phytosanitary collections. Where relevant, information is linking to other databases such as European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization (EPPO).


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Stopping Striga before it’s started

By Abigail Rumsey: The flowers might look pretty but Striga has affected millions of hectares of crops in Africa.
Striga hermonthica, or witchweed, is the main weed affecting many cereals including rice, maize, sorghum and millet. It is responsible for more crop loss in Africa than any other individual species of weed. Striga is a hemi-parasitic weed; its roots latch onto the roots of its host (e.g. a crop plant such as rice) and take water and nutrients from the host plant.

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