Climate change effects on Black Sigatoka disease of banana.

ABSTRACT: Climate change has significantly altered species distributions in the wild and has the potential to affect the interactions between pests and diseases and their human, animal and plant hosts. While several studies have projected changes in disease distributions in the future, responses to historical climate change are poorly understood. Such analyses are required to dissect the relative contributions of climate change, host availability and dispersal to the emergence of pests and diseases. Here, we model the influence of climate change on the most damaging disease of a major tropical food plant, Black Sigatoka disease of banana. Black Sigatoka emerged from Asia in the late twentieth Century and has recently completed its invasion of Latin American and Caribbean banana-growing areas. We par

SUBMITTER: Bebber DP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6553611 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature