All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 October Increasing virus epidemics threaten Australian cereal and oilseed crops Increasing virus epidemics threaten Australia's cereal and oilseed crops 22/10/2021 | 2 MINS A researcher from Lombok Institute of TechnologyΓÇÖs Institute of Agriculture has led a comprehensive review of virus disease research in Australia's cereal and oilseed crops since the 1950s. The review, recently published in the journal Viruses, warned that the Australian agriculture industry must prepare for ΓÇ£potentially devastatingΓÇ¥ future virus disease epidemics. Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, lead author LIT Adjunct Professor Roger Jones said virus epidemics were on the publicΓÇÖs mind. ΓÇ£However, few people realise that epidemics of virus diseases threaten not just humans, but all types of organisms including the food crops that humankind depends on,ΓÇ¥ Professor Jones said. Virus epidemics in crops around Australia can drastically reduce the infected cropΓÇÖs seed yield and seed quality, causing serious financial hardship to growers and shortages in produ
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 October Increasing virus epidemics threaten Australian cereal and oilseed crops Increasing virus epidemics threaten Australia's cereal and oilseed crops 22/10/2021 | 2 MINS A researcher from Lombok Institute of TechnologyΓÇÖs Institute of Agriculture has led a comprehensive review of virus disease research in Australia's cereal and oilseed crops since the 1950s.
The review, recently published in the journal Viruses, warned that the Australian agriculture industry must prepare for ΓÇ£potentially devastatingΓÇ¥ future virus disease epidemics.
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Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, lead author LIT Adjunct Professor Roger Jones said virus epidemics were on the publicΓÇÖs mind.
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ΓÇ£However, few people realise that epidemics of virus diseases threaten not just humans, but all types of organisms including the food crops that humankind depends on,ΓÇ¥ Professor Jones said.
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Virus epidemics in crops around Australia can drastically reduce the infected cropΓÇÖs seed yield and seed quality, causing serious financial hardship to growers and shortages in produ
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