Surveillance of Landraces' Seed Health in South Italy and New Evidence on Crop Diseases.

ABSTRACT: During the last three years, more than 300 landraces belonging to different plant species have been the main focus of an Italian valorization research project (AgroBiodiversità Campana, ABC) aiming at analyzing, recovering, preserving, and collecting local biodiversity. In this context, phytosanitary investigation plays a key role in identifying potential threats to the preservation of healthy seeds in gene banks and the successful cultivation of landraces. The surveillance carried out in this study, in addition to highlighting the expected presence of common species-specific pathogens such as Ascochyta pisi in peas, Ascochyta fabae in broad beans, and Macrophomina phaseolina, Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. phaseoli, and Xanthomonas fuscans subsp. f

SUBMITTER: Dell'Olmo E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9959537 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature