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Cassava Frogskin Disease: Current Knowledge on a Re-Emerging Disease in the Americas
Cassava frogskin disease (CFSD) is a graft-transmissible disease of cassava reported for the first time in the 1970s, in Colombia. The disease is characterized by the formation of longitudinal lip-like fissures on the peel of the cassava storage roots and a progressive reduction in fresh weight and...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9318364/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35890475 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants11141841 |
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author | Pardo, Juan Manuel Alvarez, Elizabeth Becerra Lopez-Lavalle, Luis Augusto Olaya, Cristian Leiva, Ana Maria Cuellar, Wilmer Jose |
author_facet | Pardo, Juan Manuel Alvarez, Elizabeth Becerra Lopez-Lavalle, Luis Augusto Olaya, Cristian Leiva, Ana Maria Cuellar, Wilmer Jose |
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description | Cassava frogskin disease (CFSD) is a graft-transmissible disease of cassava reported for the first time in the 1970s, in Colombia. The disease is characterized by the formation of longitudinal lip-like fissures on the peel of the cassava storage roots and a progressive reduction in fresh weight and starch content. Since its first report, different pathogens have been identified in CFSD-affected plants and improved sequencing technologies have unraveled complex mixed infections building up in plants with severe root symptoms. The re-emergence of the disease in Colombia during 2019–2020 is again threatening the food security of low-income farmers and the growing local cassava starch industry. Here, we review some results obtained over several years of CFSD pathology research at CIAT, and provide insights on the biology of the disease coming from works on symptoms’ characterization, associated pathogens, means of transmission, carbohydrate accumulation, and management. We expect this work will contribute to a better understanding of the disease, which will reflect on lowering its impact in the Americas and minimize the risk of its spread elsewhere. |
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spelling | pubmed-93183642022-07-27 Cassava Frogskin Disease: Current Knowledge on a Re-Emerging Disease in the Americas Pardo, Juan Manuel Alvarez, Elizabeth Becerra Lopez-Lavalle, Luis Augusto Olaya, Cristian Leiva, Ana Maria Cuellar, Wilmer Jose Plants (Basel) Review Cassava frogskin disease (CFSD) is a graft-transmissible disease of cassava reported for the first time in the 1970s, in Colombia. The disease is characterized by the formation of longitudinal lip-like fissures on the peel of the cassava storage roots and a progressive reduction in fresh weight and starch content. Since its first report, different pathogens have been identified in CFSD-affected plants and improved sequencing technologies have unraveled complex mixed infections building up in plants with severe root symptoms. The re-emergence of the disease in Colombia during 2019–2020 is again threatening the food security of low-income farmers and the growing local cassava starch industry. Here, we review some results obtained over several years of CFSD pathology research at CIAT, and provide insights on the biology of the disease coming from works on symptoms’ characterization, associated pathogens, means of transmission, carbohydrate accumulation, and management. We expect this work will contribute to a better understanding of the disease, which will reflect on lowering its impact in the Americas and minimize the risk of its spread elsewhere. MDPI 2022-07-14 /pmc/articles/PMC9318364/ /pubmed/35890475 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants11141841 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Pardo, Juan Manuel Alvarez, Elizabeth Becerra Lopez-Lavalle, Luis Augusto Olaya, Cristian Leiva, Ana Maria Cuellar, Wilmer Jose Cassava Frogskin Disease: Current Knowledge on a Re-Emerging Disease in the Americas |
title | Cassava Frogskin Disease: Current Knowledge on a Re-Emerging Disease in the Americas |
title_full | Cassava Frogskin Disease: Current Knowledge on a Re-Emerging Disease in the Americas |
title_fullStr | Cassava Frogskin Disease: Current Knowledge on a Re-Emerging Disease in the Americas |
title_full_unstemmed | Cassava Frogskin Disease: Current Knowledge on a Re-Emerging Disease in the Americas |
title_short | Cassava Frogskin Disease: Current Knowledge on a Re-Emerging Disease in the Americas |
title_sort | cassava frogskin disease: current knowledge on a re-emerging disease in the americas |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9318364/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35890475 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants11141841 |
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