Ambrosia beetles share one special feature with humans, the ability to farm. These weevil-sized beetles colonize wood but rather than consuming this rather nutrient-poor material, they inoculate the tree with a particular type of fungus, which then becomes the food for the beetle larvae. Many tree species have evolved specialized chemical defences against this type of insect infestation and normally the fungal symbiont is only weakly pathogenic. However, there are some notable exceptions to this rule where perfectly healthy trees have succumbed to ambrosia beetle infestation and their fungal symbionts have acted as aggressive pathogens. One classic example occurs in the south-eastern states of the USA, where cultivated avocado and its wil...
Since being detected in California in 2012, Euwallacea whitfordiodendrus and E. kuroshio commonly ca...
Laurel wilt disease is a vascular wilt affecting the xylem and water conductivity in trees belonging...
The invasive redbay ambrosia beetle, Xyleborus glabratus, is the primary vector of Raffaelea laurico...
The Avocado Industries in the U.S. and Mexico – as well as the USDA avocado germplasm collection in ...
Laurel wilt is a disease threatening the avocado industry in Florida. The causative agent of the dis...
Ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae and Platypodinae) bore into tree xylem to co...
Laurel wilt kills American members of the Lauraceae plant family, including avocado (Persea american...
Laurel wilt kills members of the Lauraceae plant family in the southeastern United States. It is cau...
Avocados aren’t just nutritional powerhouses; they’re also the chief ingredient in such party favori...
In a globalized world, wood products are constantly being shipped from one location to another, alon...
Members of a complex of cryptic species, that correspond morphologically to the ambrosia beetle Euwa...
For decades, secondary ambrosia beetle species have been increasingly observed to attack apparently ...
We analyze the invasive potential of two Asian ambrosia beetles, Xyleborus glabratus and Euwallacea ...
Edição dos abstracts do 24º IUFRO World Congress, 2014, Salt Lake City. Sustaining forests, sustaini...
The invasive redbay ambrosia beetle, Xyleborus glabratus, is the primary vector of Raffaelea laurico...
Since being detected in California in 2012, Euwallacea whitfordiodendrus and E. kuroshio commonly ca...
Laurel wilt disease is a vascular wilt affecting the xylem and water conductivity in trees belonging...
The invasive redbay ambrosia beetle, Xyleborus glabratus, is the primary vector of Raffaelea laurico...
The Avocado Industries in the U.S. and Mexico – as well as the USDA avocado germplasm collection in ...
Laurel wilt is a disease threatening the avocado industry in Florida. The causative agent of the dis...
Ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae and Platypodinae) bore into tree xylem to co...
Laurel wilt kills American members of the Lauraceae plant family, including avocado (Persea american...
Laurel wilt kills members of the Lauraceae plant family in the southeastern United States. It is cau...
Avocados aren’t just nutritional powerhouses; they’re also the chief ingredient in such party favori...
In a globalized world, wood products are constantly being shipped from one location to another, alon...
Members of a complex of cryptic species, that correspond morphologically to the ambrosia beetle Euwa...
For decades, secondary ambrosia beetle species have been increasingly observed to attack apparently ...
We analyze the invasive potential of two Asian ambrosia beetles, Xyleborus glabratus and Euwallacea ...
Edição dos abstracts do 24º IUFRO World Congress, 2014, Salt Lake City. Sustaining forests, sustaini...
The invasive redbay ambrosia beetle, Xyleborus glabratus, is the primary vector of Raffaelea laurico...
Since being detected in California in 2012, Euwallacea whitfordiodendrus and E. kuroshio commonly ca...
Laurel wilt disease is a vascular wilt affecting the xylem and water conductivity in trees belonging...
The invasive redbay ambrosia beetle, Xyleborus glabratus, is the primary vector of Raffaelea laurico...