Rapid emergence of pathogens in agro-ecosystems: global threats to agricultural sustainability and food security
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Rapid emergence of pathogens in agro-ecosystems: global threats to agricultural sustainability and food security.
Agricultural ecosystems are composed of genetically depauperate populations of crop plants grown at a high density and over large spatial scales, with the regional composition of crop species changing little from year to year. These environments are highly conducive for the emergence and dissemination of pathogens. The uniform host populations facilitate the specialization of pathogens to parti...
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عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0962-8436,1471-2970
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0026