Alien plants attack using 'resource conservation' as weapon, researchers say
...t. Biologists have long assumed that alien species pose less of a threat in resource-poor environments bec... but models for determining which invasive species pose the greatest threat are far from complete, Funk added. "With this new information, we can now tak......s "Select Agent List" of plant pathogens deemed to pose a severe threat to plant health or to plant products. Although direct losses from potato wart may be insignificant when first detected, indirect economic losses resulting from zero-tolerance regulations for potato wart can be devastating to growe......destructor mite but the intruders themselves could pose the beginning of a serious threat to Australian honey bee populations. Asian bees are known to have found their way into Australian ports at least half a dozen times in the last decade. This time it’s a Javanese strain of the bee and because the ...