Francisco José Morales

TL;DR: This work applies the definition of EIDs used in the medical and veterinary fields to botany and highlights a series of emerging plant diseases, including EIDs of cultivated and wild plants, some of which are of significant conservation concern.

TL;DR: This review summarizes the existing knowledge on this important group of viruses and their vector in this region and concludes that the proliferation and rapid dissemination of whitefly-transmitted viruses of important food and industrial crops in Latin America have been the consequence of drastic changes in traditional cropping systems.

TL;DR: A climate probability model was obtained using data from 304 geo-referenced locations where B. tabaci and geminiviruses cause significant damage, contributing to understanding whitefly/geminivirus epidemics and implementation of sustainable integrated pest and disease management practices.

TL;DR: Wild Phaseolus vulgaris L. accessions containing arcelin codominant alleles 1 through 5 were reconfirmed and characterized for resistance to the Mexican bean weevil, Zabrotes subfasciatus (Boheman) (Coleoptera: Bruchidae).

TL;DR: The main crops affected by begomoviruses in Latin America have been common bean, tomato, and sweet and hot peppers, and the main biological threat remains the continuous invasion of new agricultural areas by biotype B of B. tabaci.