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… food preferences of populations. Plant pest and disease outbreaks have caused massive food shortages and … people died because of the famine. The Potato late blight disease caused by Phytophthora infestans, a pest that is … 4, causing the Banana fusarium wilt, also known as Panama disease. Any reduction in banana production through pests in …

… of public funds, compared with managing that pest or disease in perpetuity after it becomes established. The …

… that the variety carries genes that are resistant to many disease causing fungi. It has since been used as a source of … of resistance to rhizomania, a devastating sugar-beet root disease. Meanwhile, it was found that the collections also … local conditions and that exhibit resistances to blast disease were multiplied and distributed to over 1000 …

… cause a severe food crisis. That was the case of a potato disease called “a late blight of potato” caused by a fungus …

… result of an IPPC-developed treatment to prevent a pest or disease from coming along for the ride. For that matter, even …