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- Title
Time for Chocolate: Current Understanding and New Perspectives on Cacao Witches’ Broom Disease Research.
- Authors
Teixeira, Paulo José Pereira Lima; Thomazella, Daniela Paula de Toledo; Pereira, Gonçalo Amarante Guimarães
- Abstract
The article discusses the witches' broom disease (WBD) affecting the perennial crop Theobroma cacao and accounting for production losses of up to 90 percent. Topics covered include a background on WBD as a tropical debilitating disease which was first described by naturalist Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira, the role of the basidiomycete Moniliophthora perniciosa in the occurrence of WBD, and important advances in WBD research.
- Subjects
WITCHES' broom disease; TREE diseases &; pests; CACAO diseases &; pests; PHYTOPHTHORA pod rot of cacao; RODRIGUES Ferreira, Alexandre
- Publication
PLoS Pathogens, 2015, Vol 11, Issue 10, p1
- ISSN
1553-7366
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.ppat.1005130