Phytosanitary Sciences
In the field of plant health, there are several specialized sub-disciplines that focus on different aspects of plant well-being. Each of these areas has a specific focus and employs distinct techniques and knowledge to address issues related to plant diseases, pests, and other conditions affecting plants. Here are some of the key sub-disciplines:
Phytopathology
Definition: Phytopathology is the study of plant diseases caused by pathogens, including fungi, bacteria, viruses, and nematodes.
Focus: Identification and characterization of pathogens, mechanisms of infection, disease epidemiology, and control strategies.
Activities: Disease diagnosis, development of control methods (chemical, biological, and cultural), and development of resistant plant varieties.
Nematology
Definition: Nematology is the study of nematodes, small cylindrical worms that can parasitize plants and cause significant damage.
Focus: Identification of nematode species, effects on plants, and development of control methods.
Activities: Diagnosis of infestations, control of nematodes through physical, chemical, and biological methods, and research on plant resistance.
Agricultural Entomology
Definition: Agricultural entomology is the study of insects that affect plants, both as pests and in their interactions with crops.
Focus: Identification of insect pests, their biology and behavior, and development of control methods.
Activities: Monitoring insect populations, integrated pest management (IPM), and development of sustainable management strategies.
Plant Virology
Definition: Plant virology is the study of viruses that infect plants.
Focus: Identification and characterization of viruses, their life
cycles, and infection mechanisms.
Activities: Diagnosis of viral infections, development of vaccines and control methods, and research on viral resistance.
Plant Bacteriology
Definition: Plant bacteriology is the study of bacteria that cause diseases in plants.
Focus: Identification of pathogenic bacteria, understanding infection mechanisms, and development of control strategies.
Activities: Diagnosis of bacterial diseases, chemical and biological control, and development of management practices.
Agricultural Mycology
Definition: Agricultural mycology is the study of fungi that affect plants.
Focus: Identification and characterization of pathogenic fungi, infection mechanisms, and control.
Activities: Diagnosis of fungal diseases, development of fungicides and cultural practices for control, and research on resistance to fungi
Phytosociology
Definition: Phytosociology studies the structure and dynamics of plant communities in relation to environmental conditions and biotic factors.
Focus: Analysis of interactions between different plant species and their environments.
Activities: Study of plant community diversity and composition, and their responses to environmental changes and management
Agroecology
Definition: Agroecology applies ecological principles to agriculture to promote sustainable farming systems.
Focus: Integration of agricultural practices with environmental conservation and promoting sustainability.
Activities: Development of sustainable management techniques and study of interactions between agricultural systems and the environment.
Plant Genetics and Breeding
Definition: Plant breeding involves selecting and creating plant varieties with desirable traits, such as disease and pest resistance.
Focus: Development of cultivars with genetic resistance to pathogens and pests.
Activities: Research and development of new varieties, and application of biotechnological techniques to improve plant resistance.
These areas are interdependent and often overlap, with many collaborating to address complex issues related to plant health and sustainable agricultural production.
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Sometimes the most obvious questions are the best. In the case of the Conservatives, the most obvious question is so glaring that one wonders why Tory politicians don’t ask it ten-times a day before breakfast: why don’t they move to the centre?
The opinion polls are predicting a Tory rout on the scale of 1906, 1945 or 1997.
Surely in the interests of preserving the Conservatives as a fighting force the party must compromise to limit its losses to Labour. Here are a couple of compromises that occur to me. They make perfect political sense until you realise that conservatism has been so radicalised that compromise now feels like treason.
First, health. When we remember the suffering of the early 2020s, we will remember covid, of course.
But we will also remember the millions on NHS waiting lists, the elderly left for hours until ambulances arrive, the cancelled operations, the sick who would work if they could be treated but cannot find a doctor, the explosion in mental illness, the needlessly prolonged pain, the needlessly early deaths.
The Conservatives ought to be doing everything they can to improve the health service before polling day – out of a reptile-brain survival instinct if nothing else.
They will not do it because in British conservatism’s ever-diminishing circles health is not a concern.
The dominant Conservative factions want a right-wing policy offer of tax cuts and immigration controls. Not one of the party’s leaders has discussed how the increase in life expectancy means the demands on the NHS of an ever-larger pensioner population make tax cuts unaffordable. Nor have I heard honest discussion of how the need for foreign health and care workers to fill the gaps in provision makes immigration essential.
Rather than face up to the impossibility of Thatcherite economics in the 21st century they prefer to change the conversation and look the other way.
Let me offer a second example, which I think Brits will soon be obsessing about.
After years of delays Brexit Britain is finally imposing border checks on food imports from the European Union. Wholesalers and retailers predict that bureaucratic costs and the need for veterinary and phytosanitary checks will lead to continental producers deciding to sell their goods elsewhere. Price rises and food shortages will follow.
What kind of government in an election year, of all years, wants empty shelves?
A Conservative kind of government appears to be the answer. The sensible move would be for the Conservatives to follow Labour’s policy of striking a deal to stick to EU standards and ease bureaucracy at the border. That would mean the UK following European food regulations, as EU ambassadors have made clear.
But compared to dear food and empty shops, who the hell cares about that?
Tories care. Brexit is their King Charles head, their reason for being, their obsession.
David Frost, who negotiated the UK’s disastrous exit agreement with the EU, wrote an unintentionally revealing paragraph last week which encapsulated the ideological capture of British Conservatism.
“The Conservative Party owns Brexit. Whether ministers like it or not, or maybe even wish it hadn’t happened, it’s the central policy of the Party and the government. They must be prepared to defend and explain it – to show why it’s so important that Britain is a proper democracy once again. For if voters come to believe Brexit is failing, then the Conservative Party will inevitably fail too.”
There you have it. Brexit is the Conservative party and vice versa.
What a distance we have come! In 2016, a mere eight years ago, the Conservative party’s leader and most of its MPs supported the UK’s membership of the European Union. Eurosceptics posed as mild-mannered people. They promised that leaving the EU would not mean leaving the single market .
But then leave won the 2016 Brexit referendum and set us off on a spiral of radicalisation, which was instantly familiar to those of us who grew up on the left.
Here is how it worked on the left in the 20th century. You would be in a meeting where everyone agreed to a leftist policy: say that the government should encourage banks to give micro loans to poor people to keep them out of the hands of loan sharks.
Everything seems fine until an accusatory voice accuses all present of being sellouts because they do not believe in nationalising the banks,
Or today, after the great awokening, an academic department will propose reasonable measures to check that they are not unconsciously discriminating in their application process, only to be told that, if they were truly concerned with justice, they would decolonise the curriculum and purge it of “white” concepts such as truth and objectivity.
The near identical radicalisation of the right has been more serious because the right has real power.
Here is how its spiral into Tory Jacobinism went.
After winning the Brexit referendum in 2016, retaining the UK’s membership of the single market and the customs union suddenly became wholly unacceptable. They had to go.
As the ideological temperature rose, Theresa May’s attempts at compromise became sellouts, judges became enemies of the people, and the only acceptable way to leave became Frost and Johnson’s impoverishing hard Brexit.
We now have a new Tory ideology: “Brexitism.” It is a style of swaggering bravado and a bawling loud-mouthed way of doing business that goes far beyond the UK’s relations with the EU.
The catastrophic premiership of Liz Truss was “Brexitist”. She crashed the economy because she believed she was right to ignore the warnings of the Treasury, Bank of England and Office for Budget Responsibility.
What true Brexit supporter trusts experts, after all?
Brexit showed that you did not need them. All you needed was the will to impose a radical agenda and then the world would accommodate itself to your desires.
In retrospect, 2016 plays the same role for the radical right of 21th century Britain that 1917 played for the British radical left in the 20th. The fluke communist takeover of Russia in 1917 convinced hundreds of thousands over the decades that revolution could succeed in the UK, even though communism never stood a chance in this country.
The fluke leave win of 2016 has had an equally mystifying effect. Because radical right politics succeeded in one set of circumstances, its supporters assumed they would succeed in all circumstances.
Nowhere in right-wing discourse do you hear suggestions that the Conservative defeat might be softened if the government appealed to the majority of voters. Instead, the right says that the only way to save the right is for the right to move rightwards and become more rightly right wing.
Once again, the parallels with the communist movement to people of my age scream so loudly they are deafening.
To quote the weirdest example. A few weeks ago, an anonymous group of wealthy men calling themselves the Conservative Britain Alliance spent about £40,000 on opinion polling, and gave the results to the Daily Telegraph. They showed the Conservatives were heading for a landslide defeat, as so many polls do.
But the spin put on it by the Conservative Britain Alliance’s frontman Lord Frost (again!) was that the Tories must move to the right to attract Faragist voters, not to try to stem the growth of Labour support.
A further release from the anonymous group of wealthy men added to the impression of a right wing living in the land of make believe.
They produced findings that showed the Conservatives could win if Sunak were replaced by a hypothetical Tory leader. This imaginary figure was a political superhero who would be strong “on crime and migration” (naturally) but also had the superpower to “cut taxes and get NHS waiting lists down” at the same time.
Lower taxes and better public services all at once in a wonderful never never land.
My guess is that it will take three maybe four election defeats to batter the delusions of 2016 out of the Conservative party.
Perhaps no number of defeats will suffice, and Brexitism will be Toryism’s final delirium.
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Modern bread and gluten
🇬🇧 In English
Bread is all too often responsible for digestive problems (bloating, stomach upsets, unstable transit). And also irritation of the mucous membrane (inside) of the intestine and intestinal permeability (porous intestine), with the molecules that disrupt immunity passing to the liver, resulting in allergies.
Autoimmune" diseases are very varied, depending on the genetic susceptibility of each individual:
digestive diseases: coeliac disease, non-viral hepatitis and fatty liver, pancreatitis, chronic intestinal diseases and ulcerative colitis.
rheumatological diseases
Neuropsychological: Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Multiple Sclerosis, etc.
hormonal: thyroiditis, damage to the pancreas and adrenal glands
bone: osteopathies, decalcifications, early osteoporosis
haematological: changes in the bone marrow, which produces too many or too few blood cells (red, white, platelets)
skin disorders: Lupus, psoriasis, scleroderma
On the other hand, we can't generalize: the real cause of the problem with bread is the genetic manipulation of wheat seeds; we're trying to standardize seeds (like twins), the primary objective being to maximize yields from industrial monocultures. The soil is not fertile, and yields depend on external fertilisers and pesticides.
The benefits of genetic standardisation for the bread industry - simplifies cultivation techniques, - facilitates phytosanitary treatments, - guarantees yields, - enables standardised flours to be obtained (e.g. T 9 index).
The convergence of seeds, crops, flour and bread is generating health problems for consumers and farmers, due to the use of toxic products. Their convergence is generating health problems:
Non-Hodgkin's malignant lymphoma, a cancer of the immune system, is a recognised occupational disease in farmers exposed to pesticides in the course of their work.
On the other hand, industrial bread-making processes add other processes and ingredients
Flour is refined using chemical processes.
Intensive mechanical kneading
Very short fermentation with industrial yeasts
All these factors make bread indigestible and harmful:
Gluten becomes resistant to enzymatic digestion
Bread contains no vitamins, antioxidants or polyphenols and is low in minerals.
It is toxic because it contains traces of toxic products.
Ancient grains could be the solution, here are a few examples
Engrain or Petit Épeautre 10 (Triticum monococcum),
Barbu du Roussillon (Triticum aestivum),
Starch (Triticum turgidum),
Kamut brand Khorasan (Triticum turanicum)
and many other wheats of yesteryear must find their place again, with bakers particularly aware of their role in health. What's more, they will create many new jobs.
In conclusion:
Abandon industrial breads and opt for wholemeal flours made from ancient grains.
Prepare your bread at home
Preferably bake your bread by hand, avoid long-fermented Perrier and opt for long fermentation.
Chew the bread well, the faster it melts in your mouth, the easier it will be to digest.
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Le pain et le gluten modernes
🇫🇷 En Français
Le pain est trop souvent responsable de troubles digestif (ballonnements, maux de ventres, instabilité du transit). Et aussi d’irritations de la muqueuse (intérieur) de l’intestin et de perméabilité intestinale (intestin poreux), les molécules qui de perturbent l’immunité passent vers le foie, et comme résultat des allergies.
Les maladies ”auto-immunes” sont très variées selon les susceptibilités génétiques de chaque individu:
digestives: maladie coeliaque et hépatites non virales et foie gras, pancreatitis, maladies intestinales chroniques intestinales et recto-colite-ulcéro-hémorragique
rhumatologiques
neuropsychiques: Alzheimer, Parkinson, Sclérose en Plaques, etc
hormonales: thyroïdites, atteintes du pancréas et des surrénales
osseuses: ostéopathies, décalcifications, ostéoporose précoce
hématologiques: modifications de la moelle osseuse qui fabrique trop ou pas assez des globules du sang (rouges, blancs, plaquettes)
cutanées : Lupus, psoriasis, sclérodermia
Par contre on ne peut pas généraliser, la vrai cause du problème avec le pain est manipulation génétique des semences des blés; on cherche uniformiser les semences (comme des individus jumeaux), l’objective primaire: la maximization des rendements des monocultures industriales. Les sols ne sont pas fertiles, le rendement depends des fertilisants extérieurs et pesticides.
Les benefits de l’uniformisation génétique pour la filière du pain– simplifie les techniques de culture,– facilite les traitements phytosanitaires– garantise les rendements,– permet l’obtention de farines standardisées (par example Indice T 9).
La convergence semences-cultures-farines-pains est génératrice de problèmes de santé pour les consommateurs et agriculteurs, du a l’emploie de produits toxiques. Leur convergence est génératrice de problèmes de santé:
Le lymphome malin non hodgkinien, cancer du système immunitaire, est une maladie professionnelle reconnue chez les agriculteurs exposés aux pesticides dans le cadre de leur métier.
D’autre part, les processes industriels de fabrication du pain, ajoutent des procedes et d’autres ingrédients
La farine est refiné par des proceses chimiques
La pétrification mécanique intensive
La fermentation très courte avec des levures industrielles
Tous ces facteurs font que le pain soit indigeste et nocif:
Le gluten devient résistent a la digestion enzymatique
Le pain ne contient pas d des vitamines, des anti-oxydants, des polyphénols, il est faible en minéraux.
Il est toxique car il contient des traces de produits toxiques
Les grains anciennes serions la solution, voici quelques examples
L’Engrain ou petit Épeautre 10 (Triticum monococcum),
le Barbu du Roussillon (Triticum aestivum) ,
l’Amidonnier (Triticum turgidum),
le Khorasan de la marque Kamut (Triticum turanicum)
et bien d’autres blés d’autrefois doivent retrouver leur place, chez les boulangers particulièrement conscients de leur rôle pour la santé. Ils deviendront en plus créateurs de nombreux emplois.
En conclusion:
Abandonnez leș pains industriels, privilégiez les farines completes et fabriquées avec des graines anciennes
Preparez votre pain a la maison
De preference faites le pain a la main, évitez le Perrier long temps et privilégiez la fermentation longue
Mastiquez bien le pain, si le pain est fondu vite dans la bouche, plus facile sera sa digestion
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El pan moderno y el gluten
🇪🇸 En Español
Con demasiada frecuencia, el pan es responsable de problemas digestivos (hinchazón, molestias estomacales, tránsito inestable). Y también irritación de la mucosa (interior) del intestino y permeabilidad intestinal (intestino poroso), con lo que las moléculas que alteran la inmunidad pasan al hígado, dando lugar a alergias.
Las enfermedades "autoinmunes" son muy variadas, dependiendo de la susceptibilidad genética de cada individuo:
enfermedades digestivas: celiaquía, hepatitis no vírica e hígado graso, pancreatitis, enfermedades intestinales crónicas y colitis ulcerosa.
enfermedades reumatológicas
neuropsicológicas: Alzheimer, Parkinson, esclerosis múltiple, etc.
hormonales: tiroiditis, daños en el páncreas y las glándulas suprarrenales
óseas: osteopatías, descalcificaciones, osteoporosis precoz
Hematológicos: alteraciones de la médula ósea, que produce demasiadas o pocas células sanguíneas (rojas, blancas, plaquetas).
Trastornos cutáneos: Lupus, psoriasis, esclerodermia.
Por otra parte, no podemos generalizar: la verdadera causa del problema del pan es la manipulación genética de las semillas de trigo; se intenta estandarizar las semillas (como los gemelos), con el objetivo primordial de maximizar el rendimiento de los monocultivos industriales. El suelo no es fértil y los rendimientos dependen de fertilizantes y pesticidas externos.
Las ventajas de la estandarización genética para la industria del pan - simplifica las técnicas de cultivo, - facilita los tratamientos fitosanitarios, - garantiza los rendimientos, - permite obtener harinas estandarizadas (por ejemplo, el índice T 9).
La convergencia de semillas, cultivos, harinas y pan está generando problemas de salud a consumidores y agricultores, debido al uso de productos tóxicos. Su convergencia está generando problemas de salud:
El linfoma maligno no Hodgkin, un cáncer del sistema inmunitario, es una enfermedad profesional reconocida en los agricultores expuestos a pesticidas durante su trabajo.
Por otra parte, los procesos industriales de elaboración del pan añaden otros procesos y otros ingredientes
La harina se refina mediante procesos químicos.
Amasado mecánico intensivo
Fermentación muy corta con levaduras industriales
Todos estos factores hacen que el pan sea indigesto y perjudicial:
El gluten se vuelve resistente a la digestión enzimática.
El pan no contiene vitaminas, antioxidantes ni polifenoles y es pobre en minerales.
Es tóxico porque contiene trazas de productos tóxicos.
Los cereales antiguos podrían ser la solución, he aquí algunos ejemplos
Engrain o petit Épeautre 10 (Triticum monococcum),
Barbu du Roussillon (Triticum aestivum),
Almidón (Triticum turgidum),
Kamut marca Khorasan (Triticum turanicum)
y muchos otros trigos de antaño deben volver a encontrar su lugar, ya que los panaderos son especialmente conscientes de su papel en la salud. Además, crearán muchos nuevos puestos de trabajo.
En conclusión:
Abandonar los panes industriales y optar por harinas integrales elaboradas con granos antiguos.
Prepara tu pan en casa
Hornea tu pan preferiblemente a mano, evita los Perrier de larga fermentación y opta por los de fermentación larga.
Mastica bien el pan, cuanto más rápido se deshaga en la boca, más fácil será digerirlo.
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O pão moderno e o glúten
🇧🇷 En Português
O pão é muitas vezes responsável por problemas digestivos (inchaço, perturbações gástricas, trânsito instável). E também a irritação da mucosa (interior) do intestino e a permeabilidade intestinal (intestino poroso), com as moléculas que perturbam a imunidade a passarem para o fígado, dando origem a alergias.
As doenças "auto-imunes" são muito variadas e dependem da suscetibilidade genética de cada indivíduo:
Doenças digestivas: doença celíaca, hepatite não viral e fígado gordo, pancreatite, doenças intestinais crónicas e colite ulcerosa.
Doenças reumatológicas
neuropsicológicas: doença de Alzheimer, Parkinson, esclerose múltipla, etc.
hormonais: tiroidite, lesões do pâncreas e das glândulas supra-renais
ósseas: osteopatias, descalcificações, osteoporose precoce
hematológicas: alterações da medula óssea, que produz demasiadas ou poucas células sanguíneas (glóbulos vermelhos, glóbulos brancos, plaquetas)
afecções cutâneas: Lúpus, psoríase, esclerodermia
Por outro lado, não podemos generalizar: a verdadeira causa do problema do pão é a manipulação genética das sementes de trigo; estamos a tentar uniformizar as sementes (como os gémeos), com o objetivo principal de maximizar o rendimento das monoculturas industriais. O solo não é fértil e os rendimentos dependem de fertilizantes e pesticidas externos.
As vantagens da normalização genética para a indústria do pão - simplifica as técnicas de cultivo, - facilita os tratamentos fitossanitários, - garante os rendimentos, - permite obter farinhas normalizadas (por exemplo, índice T 9).
A convergência das sementes, das culturas, das farinhas e do pão está a gerar problemas de saúde para os consumidores e para os agricultores, devido à utilização de produtos tóxicos. A sua convergência está a gerar problemas de saúde:
O linfoma maligno não-Hodgkin, um cancro do sistema imunitário, é uma doença profissional reconhecida nos agricultores expostos a pesticidas no exercício da sua atividade.
Por outro lado, os processos industriais de fabrico de pão acrescentam outros processos e outros ingredientes
A farinha é refinada por processos químicos.
Amassadura mecânica intensiva
Fermentação muito curta com leveduras industriais
Todos estes factores tornam o pão indigesto e nocivo:
O glúten torna-se resistente à digestão enzimática.
O pão não contém vitaminas, antioxidantes ou polifenóis e é pobre em minerais.
É tóxico porque contém vestígios de produtos tóxicos.
Os cereais antigos podem ser a solução, eis alguns exemplos
Engrain ou petit Épeautre 10 (Triticum monococcum),
Barbu du Roussillon (Triticum aestivum),
Amido (Triticum turgidum),
Kamut marca Khorasan (Triticum turanicum)
e muitos outros trigos de outrora devem reencontrar o seu lugar, junto de padeiros particularmente atentos aos seus benefícios para a saúde. Além disso, criarão muitos novos postos de trabalho.
Em conclusão:
Abandonar os pães industriais e optar por farinhas integrais de cereais antigos.
Prepare o seu pão em casa
De preferência, coza o seu pão à mão, evite Perrier de longa fermentação e opte por uma fermentação longa.
Mastiga bem o pão, quanto mais depressa derreter na tua boca, mais fácil será a digestão.
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