Can we stay ahead of an emerging crop disease before it becomes established in Europe? This PhD will use genomics to future-proof celery against Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. apii race 4 - a highly virulent pathogen threatening celery production globally.

Fungal contamination of cereal crops threatens global food security by compromising grain quality and introducing harmful mycotoxins that endanger human and animal health. In West Africa, the long-sta...

En la zona núcleo, el trigo está volviendo a mostrar un potencial productivo inusual, con recuentos de hasta 500 espigas por metro cuadrado. Sin embargo, la aparición de fusarium en lotes del sur santafesino obliga a intensificar los monitoreos.

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Europatat’s September–October 2026 newsletter highlights water resilience, post-harvest disease protection and closer cooperation across Europe’s potato sector. Developments include a water workshop, PATAFEST research on Fusarium dry rot susceptibility, and a new POMATO platform for sharing bacterial disease knowledge. The issue also reviews Madrid’s International Potato Symposium, welcomes new members from Greece and Spain, and looks ahead to Europatat’s 75th anniversary congress in Lisbon, Portugal, scheduled for June next year.

Soil-borne fungal pathogens undermine crop health by disrupting the protective rhizosphere microbiome. Zhou et al. uncovered a cross-kingdom endosymbiotic mechanism that enables Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici to subvert rhizosphere protection: intracellular bacterial endosymbionts drive fungal metabolic reprogramming to produce a selective toxin, thereby suppressing keystone beneficial rhizobacteria.

By: Gert Antonio Tobing–Indonesian Science Affairs Fellow 2026 A fungal strain attacks banana production across the Indonesian archipelago. What does science say about it? In Aceh, at the northern tip of Sumatra, farmers were planting new gardens of Pisang Barangan, a banana variety popularly known for its sweetness. To get started, they dug up young shoots from gardens nearby. “The seedlings looked healthy,” says Catur Hermanto, a plant disease researcher at Indonesia’s National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), who saw those gardens.

IntroductionThe co-occurrence of Alternaria and Fusarium species on wheat represents a food safety concern due to the accumulation of their mycotoxins in gra...