Preparing for emerging and unknown threats in crops

dc.contributor.author	Fletcher, Jacqueline
dc.date.accessioned	2017-06-08T15:24:47Z
dc.date.available	2017-06-08T15:24:47Z
dc.date.issued	2011
dc.description.abstract	Plant diseases have significant impact on food security. Our vulnerability resides principally on the fact that we grow, for the most part, monocultures that could be wiped out in a single season by a new pathogen. The potato famine in Ireland in 1880 is a historical example. A current one is a relatively new race of the wheat stem-rust pathogen that has spread beyond its area of origin.Most currently grown wheat varieties lack resistance to it. Accordingly, the task is to identify resistant varieties and incorporate that resistance into cultivated genotypes. Plant-disease impacts on food security and social stability can be significant, and in the last few years plants have been the sources of foodborne diseases by consumption of contaminated fresh produce.
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1813/51360
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	NABC
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International	*
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject	Agricultural nanotechnology
dc.subject	food safety
dc.subject	food security
dc.subject	sustainability
dc.subject	global food security
dc.subject	developing world needs
dc.subject	risk assessment
dc.subject	threats
dc.subject	animal diseases
dc.subject	plant pathogens
dc.subject
dc.title	Preparing for emerging and unknown threats in crops
dc.type	book chapter

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