Tropical Fruit

Selected publications from the lab about tropical fruit systems

Etherton, B. A., R. A. Choudhury, R. I. Alcalá-Briseño, Y. Xing, A. I. Plex Sulá, D. Carrillo, J. Wasielewski, L. Stelinski, K. A. Grogan, F. Ballen, T. Blare, J. Crane, and K. A. Garrett. 2023. Are avocados toast? A framework to analyze decision-making for emerging epidemics, applied to laurel wilt. 206:103615. [open access link]

Nduwimana, I., S. Sylla, Y. Xing, A. Simbare, C. Niyongere , K. A. Garrett, B. A. Omondi. 2022. Banana seed exchange systems in Burundi – linking formal and informal systems. Outlook on Agriculture 51:334-348. [open access link]

McEwan, M. A., C. J. M. Almekinders, J.L. Andrade-Piedra, E. Delaquis, K. A. Garrett, L. Kumar, S. Mayanja, B. A. Omondi, S. Rajendran, and G. Thiele. 2021. “Breaking through the 40% adoption ceiling: Mind the seed system gaps.” A perspective on seed systems research for development in One CGIAR. Outlook on Agriculture 50:5-12. [open access link]

Alcalá-Briseño, R. I., K. Casarrubias-Castillo, D. López-Ley, K. A. Garrett, L. Silva-Rosales. 2020. Network analysis of the papaya orchard virome from two agroecological regions of Chiapas, Mexico. mSystems 5:e00423-19. [open access link]

Choudhury, R. A., H. L. Er, M. Hughes, J. Smith, G. Pruett, J. Konkol, R. Ploetz, J. Marois, K. A. Garrett, and A. H. C. van Bruggen. 2020. Host density dependence and environmental factors affecting laurel wilt invasion. Plant Pathology, accepted. [link]

Fulton, J. C., S. Bec, J. Fayette, R. C. Ploetz, K. A. Garrett, C. L. Harmon. 2020. First report of plantain soft rot caused by Klebsiella variicola in Haiti. [Disease Note] Plant Disease 104:1851. [open access link]

Fulton, J. C., J. M. Klein, S. Bec, J. FayetteK. A. Garrett, J. B. Jones, S. Timilsina, C. L. Harmon. 2020. Draft genome sequences of plant-pathogenic Klebsiella variicola strains isolated from plantain in Haiti. Microbiology Resource Announcements 9:e00336-20. [open access link]

Xing*, Y.J. Hernandez Nopsa*, K. F. Andersen, J. Andrade-Piedra, F. Beed, G. Blomme, M. Carvajal Yepes, D. Coyne, W. Cuellar, G. Forbes, J. Kreuze, J. Kroschel, L. Kumar, J. Legg, M. Parker, E. Schulte-Geldermann, K. Sharma, and K. A. Garrett. 2020. Global cropland connectivity: A risk factor for invasion and saturation by emerging pathogens and pests. BioScience 70:744-758. [open access link]

Ascunce, M. S., Keumchul Shin, J. C. Huguet-Tapia, R. PoudelK. A. Garrett, A. H. C. van Bruggen, E. M. Goss. 2019. Penicillin trunk injection affects bacterial community structure in citrus trees. Microbial Ecology 78:457-469. [link]

Ziska, L.H., B. A. Bradley, R. D. Wallace, C. T. Bargeron, J. H. LaForest, R. A. ChoudhuryK. A. Garrett, F. E. Vega. 2018. Climate change, carbon dioxide, and pest biology, managing the future: Coffee as a case study. Agronomy 8:152. [open access link]

Ploetz, R. C., P. E. Kendra, R. A. Choudhury, J. A. Rollins, A. Campbell, K. Garrett, M. Hughes, and T. Dreaden. 2017. Laurel wilt in natural and agricultural ecosystems: understanding the drivers and scales of complex pathosystems. Forests 8:48. [open access link]

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