New plant pathogens: Emerged from nowhere?

Authors

  • Juan Carlos Codina Escobar Spain

Keywords:

new pathogens, plants

Abstract

When a new pathogenic organism appears that causes serious losses in some plant crop, it is very common to use that term, appear, as if it had emerged from nowhere. The theory of spontaneous generation, now totally falsified, is far behind in time. Therefore, one of the interesting aspects in the evolutionary study of the emergence of plant pathogenic organisms in agricultural ecosystems is trying to answer questions of the type, where, when and how a certain pathogenic organism emerged. The very nature of the agricultural ecosystem has played a significant role in the emergence and expansion of plant pathogens

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Published

2011-05-20

How to Cite

Codina Escobar , J. C. (2011). New plant pathogens: Emerged from nowhere?. Encuentros En La Biología, 4(133), 17–18. Retrieved from https://revistas.uma.es/index.php/enbio/article/view/18466