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    Combating a Global Threat to a Clonal Crop: Banana Black Sigatoka Pathogen Pseudocercospora fijiensis Genomes Reveal Clues for Disease Control
    with R. E. Arango Isaza, C. Diaz-Trujillo, B. Dhillon, A. Aerts, J. Carlier, C. F. Crane, Jong T. V. De, I. de Vries, R. Dietrich, A. D. Farmer, C. Fortes Fereira, S. Garcia, M. Guzman, R. C. Hamelin, E. A. Lindquist, R. Mehrabi, J. Schmutz, H. Shapiro, E. Reynolds, G. Scalliet, M. Souza, I. Stergiopoulos, T. A. J. Van der Lee, Pjgm de Wit, M. F. Zapater, L. H. Zwiers, Grigoriev IV, S. B. Goodwin, and G. H. J. Kema
    © 2016 Public Library of Science. All rights reserved.Black Sigatoka or black leaf streak disease, caused by the Dothideomycete fungus Pseudocercospora fijiensis, is the most significant foliar disease of banana worldwide. Due to the lack of effective host resistance, management of this disease requires frequent fungicide applications, which greatly increase the economic and environmental costs to produce banana. Weekly applications in most banana plantations lead to rapid evolution of fungicide…Read more
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    The provisional revolutionary government of Cuba established the Instituto Cubano de Arte e Industria Cinematografica in 1959. Under the centralized umbrella of ICAIC, Cuban cinema began to develop its own aesthetic identity very much in tune with the revolutionary, political and ideological events of the 1960s. Several outstanding feature-length films, and the polemic essay Por un cine imperfecto of Julio Garcia-Espinoza, helped categorize the first 15 years of revolutionary Cuban cinema as the…Read more