Pecan scab, caused by the plant pathogenic fungus Fusicladium effusum, is the most destructive disease of pecan, an important specialty crop cultivated in several regions of the world. Only a few members of the family Venturiaceae (in which the pathogen resides) have been reported sequenced. We report the first draft genome sequence (40.6 Mb) of an isolate F. effusum collected from a pecan tree...

We hypothesized that tree form, recorded in historical public land surveys, would provide a valuable proxy record of regeneration patterns during early-European settlement of North America's eastern deciduous forest. To test this hypothesis, we tallied stem form fromwitness trees used in land survey records in the southern Appalachian Mountains from 13 counties spanning four physiographic provi...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Unlike other taxa in Juglandaceae or in closely related families, which are anemophilous, Platycarya strobilacea has been suggested to be entomophilous. In Juglandaceae, Juglans and Carya show heterodichogamy, a reproductive strategy in which two morphs coexist in a population and undergo synchronous reciprocal sex changes. However, there has been no study focusing on hetero...

The recycling potential of entomopathogenic nematodes in the pecan weevil, Curculio caryae, following inundative applications is an important factor in considering whether nematodes could be incorporated into a C. caryae management strategy. Our objective was to determine the recycling potential and fitness of Steinernema carpocapsae and S. riobrave cultured in C. caryae. To estimate fitness an...

Rebecca Margraf Bingfang Yue Denice Smith Mike Pyne Genevieve Pont-Kingdon Mike Seipp Philippe Szankasi Orly Ardon Mark Kushnir Alison Millson Joann Cloud Bob Chou Keith Simmon Brian Anderson Marcy Lloyd Mark Herrmann Tanya Sandrock Lyndsey Rector Kristy Damjanovich Aiping Liu David Crockett Tom Martins Jeff Stevenson Nancy Augustine Sergey Preobrazhensky Presenters from ARUP Institute for Clin...

Geomys bursarius (Shaw, 1800) is a geomyid commonly called the plains pocket gopher. A stocky rodent morphologically adapted for a fossorial life, it is 1 of 11 species in the genus Geomys. It occurs in southern Manitoba, Canada, and throughout the central United States southward to Texas. It prefers open grasslands and agricultural fields and is considered an economic pest. The subspecies G. b...