Search Results - "Middle East"

Fusarium wilt of banana: Current knowledge on epidemiology and research needs toward sustainable disease management by Dita, M., Barquero, M., Heck, D., Mizubuti, E., Staver, Charles

“…Foc TR4 has been restricted to East and parts of Southeast Asia for more than 20 years, but since 2010 the disease has spread westward into five additional countries in Southeast and South Asia (Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, India, and Pakistan) and at the transcontinental level into the Middle East (Oman, Jordan, Lebanon, and Israel) and Africa (Mozambique). …”
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Genome wide insights of Ethiopian indigenous sheep populations reveal the population structure related to tail morphology and phylogeography by Amane, Agraw, Belay, G., Nasser, Y., Kyallo, Martina M., Dessie, Tadelle, Kebede, A., Getachew, T., Domelevo Entfellner, Jean-Baka, Edea, Zewdu, Hanotte, Olivier H., Mekuriaw, Getinet

“…To infer genetic relationships of Ethiopian sheep at national, continental and global levels, genotype data on four Ethiopian sheep (Adilo, Arsi-Bale, Menz and Black Head Somali) and sheep from east, north, and south Africa, Middle East and Asia were included in the study as reference.Mean genetic diversity of Ethiopian sheep populations ranged from 0.352 ± 0.14 for Horro to 0.379 ± 0.14 for Arsi-Bale sheep. …”
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Diversity of thermal aptitude of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici isolates from different altitude zones by El Amil, Rola, Shykoff, Jacqui A., Vidal, Tiphaine, Boixel, Anne-Lise, Leconte, Marc, Hovmøller, Mogens S., Nazari, Kumarse, De Vallavieille-Pope, Claude

“…The worldwide spread of wheat yellow rust lineage PstS1/S2 adapted to higher temperatures prompted us to investigate how diverse temperature responses of this lineage are in the Middle East, where diversity was previously observed within this lineage for pathotypes and genotypes. …”
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Association mapping of resistance to tan spot in the Global Durum Panel by Szabo-Hever, Agnes, Singh, Gurminder, Peters Haugrud, Amanda, Running, Katherine, Seneviratne, Sudeshi, Zhang, Zengcui, Shi, Gongjun, Bassi, Filippo, Maccaferri, Marco, Cattivelli, Luigi, Tuberosa, Roberto, Friesen, Timothy L, Liu, Zhaohui, Xu, Steven, Faris, Justin

“…Overall, susceptible durum lines were most prevalent in South Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa. Genome-wide association analysis showed the resistance locus Tsr7 was significantly associated with tan spot caused by races 2 and 3, but not races 1, 4, or 5. …”
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Globally dispersed Y chromosomal haplotypes in wild and domestic sheep by Meadow, J.R.S., Hanotte, Olivier H., Drogemullerr, C., Calvo, J., Godfrey, J., Coltman, D., Maddox, J.F., Marzanov, N., Kantanen, J., Kijas, J.W.

“…A-oY1 also had the highest frequency (71.4%) within 458 domestic sheep drawn from 65 breeds sampled from Africa, Asia, Australia, the Caribbean, Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia. Sequence analysis of a second locus, microsatellite SRYM18, revealed a compound repeat array displaying fixed differences, which identified bighorn and thinhorn sheep as distinct from the European Mouflon and domestic animals. …”
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Water reuse for resilience: using scientific evidence for water reuse inclusive policy formulation in Lebanon by Al-Zu’bi, Maha, Tawfik, Mohamed, Brouziyne, Youssef, Moussallem, M.

“…Reusing treated wastewater for agricultural irrigation is a key strategy to build resilience in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, particularly in Lebanon. …”
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From YOLO to VLMs: advancing zero-shot and few-shot detection of wastewater treatment plants using satellite imagery in MENA Region by Premarathna, Akila, Hewageegana, Kanishka, Garcia Andarcia, Mariangel

“…In regions of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), there is a high demand for wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), crucial for sustainable water management. …”
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Developments in risk-based decision making: Responding to the threat of Rift Valley fever (RVF) and other trans-boundary diseases by Jost, Christine, Minjauw, B., Mariner, Jeffrey C., Bett, Bernard K., Clark, A.

“…In 2011, representatives of the Horn of Africa and the Middle East reviewed the RVF-RBDF at a meeting held in Dubai and hosted by ILRI and the African Union Interafrican Bureau for Animal Resources. …”
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Wastewater irrigation and health: assessing and mitigating risk in low-income countries by Drechsel, Pay, Scott, Christopher A., Raschid-Sally, Liqa, Redwood, M., Bahri, Akissa

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Promoting micro-irrigation technologies that reduce poverty by International Water Management Institute

“…Among the worst hit will be regions in Asia, the Middle-East and Sub-Saharan Africa, home to some of the largest concentrations of rural poverty in the world. …”
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Reconciling food and water security objectives of MENA and sub-Saharan Africa: is there a role for large-scale agricultural investments? by Williams, Timothy O.

“…The attainment of food and water security rank high on the agendas of governments in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). …”
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Lectotype Designation for Seven Species Names in the Daucus guttatus Complex (Apiaceae) from the Central and Eastern Mediterranean Basin by Martínez Flores, Fernando, Arbizu Berrocal, Carlos Irvin, Reitsma, Kathleen R., Juan, Ana, Simon, Philipp W., Spooner, David M., Crespo, Manuel B.

“…The Daucus guttatus complex includes two to four species growing from central and northern Italy to the Middle East. They are characterized by being typically annuals up to 50 cm high; with primary umbels up to 7 cm in diameter with fewer than 25(35) rays; discolored umbels frequent, bearing one to several dark colored umbellules which form different color patterns; and mericarps relatively small, ca. 2.0–4.5 mm. …”
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Viroids in Gummy Bark Sources from the Sultanate of Oman by Bernad, Lucia, Moreno, Pedro, Bove, J. M., Durán-Vila, Núria

“…The gummy bark disease affects sweet oranges and rough lemon in some Mediterranean countries and most countries of the Near and Middle East regions. Diseased trees are usually stunted, and scraping the bark reveals gum deposits. …”
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Financial analysis of halophyte cultivation in a desert environment using different saline water resources for irrigation by Robertson, S.M., Lyra, D.A., Mateo-Sagasta, Javier

“…Increase in salinity levels poses a threat to many hot and arid farming areas in the Middle East and North Africa region. In some cases, farmers install desalination units to produce freshwater to irrigate high-value crops. …”
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Human arsenic exposure risk via crop consumption and global trade from groundwater-irrigated areas by Alam, Mohammad Faiz, Villholth, Karen G., Podgorski, J.

“…Trade plays a critical role in redistributing risk, with the greatest exposure risk borne by countries with a high dependence on food imports, particularly in the Middle East and small island nations for which all arsenic risk in crops is imported. …”
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Invasiveness, biology, ecology, and management of the fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda by Kenis, M., Benelli, A., Biondi, A., Calatayud, Paul-André, Day, R., Desneux, N., Harrison, R.D., Kriticos, D.J., Rwomushana, I., Berg, J. van den, Verheggen, F., Zhang, Y., Agboyi, L.K., Ahissou, R.B., Ba, M.N., Bernal, J., Freitas Bueno, A. de, Carriere, Y., Carvalho, G.A., Chen, X.X., Cicero, L., du Plessis, H., Early, R., Fallet, P., Fiaboe, K., Firake, D.M., Goergen, Georg E., Groot, A.T., Guedes, R.N.C., Gupta, A., Hu, G., Huang, F.N., Jaber, L.R., Malo, E.A., McCarthy, C.B., Meagher Jr, R.L., Mohamed, S., Mota-Sanchez, D., Nagoshi, R.N., Negre, N., Niassy, S., Ota, N., Nyamukondiwa, C., Omoto, C., Palli, S.R., Pavela, R., Ramírez Romero, R., Rojas, J.C., Subramanian, S., Tabashnik, B.E., Tay, W.T., Virla, E.G., Wang, S., Williams, T., Zhang, L.S., Zhang, L., Wu, K.

“…It has long been known as a pest in the Americas and has invaded most of Africa and parts of the Middle East, Asia, and Australia in the last six years. …”
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Genome characterization of Rift Valley fever virus isolated from cattle, goats and sheep during interepidemic periods in Kenya by Onwong'a, A.A., Oyola, Samuel O., Juma, John, Konongoi, S., Nyamota, Richard, Mwangi, Reuben, Muli, Collins, Dobi, Paul, Bett, Bernard K., Ongus, J.R.

“…In nature, the virus exists as a single serotype that is responsible for outbreaks of Rift Valley fever (RVF), a zoonotic disease that often occurs in Africa and the Middle East. RVFV genomes are thought to undergo both recombination and reassortment and investigations of these events is important for monitoring the emergence of virulent strains and understanding the evolutionary characteristics of this virus. …”
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A Blueprint for Building Resilience and Food Security in MENA and SSA Drylands: Diversifying Agriculture With Neglected and Underutilized Species by Devkota, Krishna, Devkota Wasti, Mina Kumari, Mabhaudi, Tafadzwanashe, Nangia, Vinay, Attaher, Samar, Jean Boroto, Ruhiza, Timsina, Jagadish, Siddique, Kadambot H M

“…Dryland spans vast areas of Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) regions and poses a threat to food security and resilience. …”
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Development of a capability and skillset framework for the implementation of resilient nature-based water solutions (RNBWS) in the MENA Region by Parkes, Richard, Fragaszy, Stephen, Belhaj Fraj, Makram, Abdelwahab, Noura, Mandouri, H., Slehat, F., Hayajneh, A., Rabi, A., Amleh, N., AbdelMeguid, A., Maowod, G., Khatib, B., Ferando, S., Hayek, F., Samarasekara, Vidhisha

“…The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region is one of the most water-scarce in the world, with agriculture accounting for 65% of total water use. …”
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Genetic diversity of West Nile virus isolated from the tick, Rhipicephalus pulchellus, in Kenya by Lwande, Olivia Wesula, Venter, M., Lutomiah, J., Michuki, George N., Rumberia, C., Gakuya, F., Obanda, V., Tigoi, C., Odhiambo, C., Nindo, F., Sang, R.

“…Background: West Nile virus is a re-emerging infectious disease that has a wide geographical distribution in Africa, parts of Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and the Americas where it causes outbreaks. …”
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