Safeguarding the Future of US Agriculture - Global Crop Diversity Trust
Safeguarding the Future of US Agriculture - Global Crop Diversity Trust
Safeguarding the Future of US Agriculture - Global Crop Diversity Trust
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Disease Risks to Major <strong>US</strong> <strong>Crop</strong>stable 1CROP ANNUAL <strong>US</strong> CENTER OF ORIGIN INCIPIENT PESTSCROP VALUEAND DISEASESCorn $30 billion Mexico, Mesoamerica Gray leaf spotAnthracnose leaf blightMal de Río Cuartodowny mildewPotato $3 billion The highlands <strong>of</strong> South America, Potato late blightCentral America, parts <strong>of</strong> North Numerous cystAmericanematodes (worms)Bacterial wiltPhytoplasma-likeorganismsTobacco rattle virusRice $1 billion Sou<strong>the</strong>ast Asia Rice blastRice sheath blightBakanae, a.k.a. “foolishseedling disease”Wheat $5.6 billion Southwest Asia, Mediterranean Scabcoast to Tigris-Euphrates plain Russian wheat aphidWheat rustsApple $1.8 billion Kazakhstan, Central Asia Fire blightApple scabCedar apple rustCitrus $2 billion Sou<strong>the</strong>ast Asia Citrus cankerCitrus variegatedchlorosis (CVC)Citrus blightPlums, o<strong>the</strong>r Stone $2 billion Plum poxFruitsSAFEGUARDING THE FUTURE OF U.S. AGRICULTURE 19
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