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Open AccessLong-term seasonal forecasting of a major migrant insect pest: the brown planthopper in the Lower Yangtze River Valley
Rice planthoppers and associated virus diseases have become the most important pests threatening food security in China and other Asian countries, incurring costs of hundreds of millions of US dollars annually...
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Capnodium citri: The sooty mold fungi comprising the taxon concept
The common use of the name Capnodium citri to represent several species of sooty mold fungi is reviewed. Analysis of sooty mold specimens from Citrus in Florida found the species Antennariella californica and Cha...
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The bitunicate ascus paradigm
The bitunicate ascus paradigm recognized by E. S. Luttrell is reviewed. Species demonstrated to fit the paradigm are listed. Attempts to redefine the bitunicate ascus with functional as well as structural char...
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Wall structure of a bitunicate ascus
The bitunicate ascus develops in two stages prior to ascospore formation: 1) initial growth and expansion of the ascus mother-cell, and 2) deposition of a secondary wall layer, the endotunica, within the outer...