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Rhizomania

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The use of beets as a sugar-producing crop is rather recent, dating to a little over two centuries ago. However, domestication of beets dates back to prehistoric times. The history of the crop is summarized and represents an outstanding example of agricultural accomplishment. Sugar beet is subjected to a number of biotic and abiotic factors that more or less severely limit both sugar yield and processing quality. As it is for industrial purposes with specific requirements, sugar beet cultivation has been always more difficult than other crops. It is believed that agricultural innovation was introduced to accommodate cropping systems (e.g., crop rotation, row cropping) and technology to improve the sucrose production and its extraction (e.g., progeny testing). Among the diseases affecting the crop, rhizomania is certainly the most dangerous. Currently, the cropping of sugar beet would be difficult without the availability of some source of rhizomania resistance. The economic damage caused by rhizomania and its rapid spread across the world are described.

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Biancardi, E., Lewellen, R.T. (2016). Introduction. In: Biancardi, E., Tamada, T. (eds) Rhizomania. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30678-0_1

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