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Neil McRoberts

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McRoberts N, Brinker S, Coleman K
Annu Rev Phytopathol . 2024 Jun; 62(1):385-400. PMID: 38857536
We examine the phenomenon of impact assessment in the practice of scientific research, paying attention to the context in which project evaluation is used in federally funded research on plant...
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Garcia-Figuera S, Lowder S, Lubell M, Mahaffee W, McRoberts N, Gent D
Annu Rev Phytopathol . 2024 May; 62(1):357-384. PMID: 38724018
Plant disease epidemics often transcend land management boundaries, creating a collective-action problem where a group must cooperate in a common effort to maximize individual and group benefits. Drawing upon the...
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Hajeri S, Olkowski S, Kumagai L, McRoberts N, Yokomi R
Plants (Basel) . 2023 Oct; 12(19). PMID: 37836104
Early detection and prompt response are key factors in the eradication of 'huanglongbing' (HLB) in California. Currently, qPCR testing of leaf tissue guides the removal of infected trees. However, because...
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Acuna I, Andrade-Piedra J, Andrivon D, Armengol J, Arnold A, Avelino J, et al.
Plant Dis . 2023 May; 107(12):3649-3665. PMID: 37172970
The Global Plant Health Assessment (GPHA) is a collective, volunteer-based effort to assemble expert opinions on plant health and disease impacts on ecosystem services based on published scientific evidence. The...
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van den Bosch F, McRoberts N, Bourhis Y, Parnell S, Hassall K
J Theor Biol . 2022 Dec; 560:111385. PMID: 36565952
Early detection of invaders requires finding small numbers of individuals across large landscapes. It has been argued that the only feasible way to achieve the sampling effort needed for early...
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Donda B, Kesoju S, Arnold K, McRoberts N, Naidu R
Plant Dis . 2022 Oct; 107(5):1471-1480. PMID: 36269587
The spread of grapevine leafroll disease (GLD) to vineyards planted with certified planting stock is of significant concern to grape growers. In this study, the spatial and temporal spread of...
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Garcia-Figuera S, Deniston-Sheets H, Grafton-Cardwell E, Babcock B, Lubell M, McRoberts N
Phytopathology . 2021 Feb; 111(10):1758-1773. PMID: 33599529
Huanglongbing (HLB) disease of citrus, which is associated with the bacterium ' Liberibacter asiaticus', has been confined to residential properties in Southern California 8 years after it was first detected...
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Gottwald T, Poole G, Taylor E, Luo W, Posny D, Adkins S, et al.
Entropy (Basel) . 2020 Dec; 22(11). PMID: 33287037
For millennia humans have benefitted from application of the acute canine sense of smell to hunt, track and find targets of importance. In this report, canines were evaluated for their...
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Hughes G, Kopetzky J, McRoberts N
Entropy (Basel) . 2020 Dec; 22(9). PMID: 33286707
The predictive receiver operating characteristic (PROC) curve differs from the more well-known receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve in that it provides a basis for the evaluation of binary diagnostic tests...
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Hughes G, Reed J, McRoberts N
Entropy (Basel) . 2020 Dec; 22(3). PMID: 33286135
Diagrammatic formats are useful for summarizing the processes of evaluation and comparison of forecasts in plant pathology and other disciplines where decisions about interventions for the purpose of disease management...