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. 2018 Mar;12(3):647-652.
doi: 10.1038/s41396-017-0013-9. Epub 2018 Jan 12.

Tracing the role of human civilization in the globalization of plant pathogens

Alberto Santini  1 , Andrew Liebhold  2 , Duccio Migliorini  3   4 , Steve Woodward  5
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Tracing the role of human civilization in the globalization of plant pathogens

Alberto Santini et al. ISME J. 2018 Mar.
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The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

Figures

Fig. 1
Fig. 1. Migrations of modern Homo sapiens (Adapted by permission from Macmillan Publishers Ltd: [Nature Genetics]
([8]. The application of molecular genetic approaches to the study of human evolution 33:266–275), copyright 2003
Fig. 2
Fig. 2. Trend of European agricultural imports per year (1980–2014) expressed in USD [18].
In the box: World seaborne trade by type of cargo per year (1970–2011). Plants fall into the dry cargo category (UNCTAD, statistics 2014, unctad.org)
Fig. 3
Fig. 3. Trade of plants and plant parts among principle trading countries.
For each country flow widths are proportional to 2015 import and export values. Colors correspond to exports from a single country, coded by the color of the outer band. Imports are represented by different colors flowing into each country (Commodity code 0602: Live trees, including roots, cuttings, slips and mushroom spawn). Source UN Comtrade Database http://comtrade.un.org/
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