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James P. Legg is affiliated with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a substantial portion dedicated to Plant Science. Other subfields include Insect Science, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Ecology, and Analytical Chemistry.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics such as cassava research and cyanide, plant virus research studies, insect-plant interactions and control, banana cultivation and research, nematode management and characterization studies, insect pest control strategies, and agricultural pest management studies.

James P. Legg has contributed to numerous scientific publications, with recent papers including:

  • Accuracy of a Smartphone-Based Object Detection Model, PlantVillage Nuru, in Identifying the Foliar Symptoms of the Viral Diseases of Cassava-CMD and CBSD (2020), Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Global Cropland Connectivity: A Risk Factor for Invasion and Saturation by Emerging Pathogens and Pests (2020), BioScience
  • Early detection of plant virus infection using multispectral imaging and spatial-spectral machine learning (2022), Scientific Reports
  • Genotype by environment cultivar evaluation for cassava brown streak disease resistance in Tanzania (2020), Virus Research
  • Plant pest surveillance: from satellites to molecules (2021), Emerging Topics in Life Sciences

The venues where James P. Legg frequently publishes include:

  • Insects
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Plant Disease
  • Viruses
  • Crop Protection

Co-authorship is a significant aspect of their work. Frequent collaborators are:

  • Rudolph R. Shirima
  • Everlyne N. Wosula
  • Massoud Amour
  • Karen A. Garrett
  • Latifa Mrisho

The research output shows a strong emphasis on plant health, pest management, and the use of technology for early disease detection. Their studies on cassava diseases, including cassava mosaic disease (CMD) and cassava brown streak disease (CBSD), focus on both epidemiology and control measures. The exploration of spatial-spectral machine learning and object detection models highlights an interest in integrating advanced imaging and computational methods into plant pathology diagnostics.

James P. Legg's body of work integrates knowledge from multiple disciplines to address challenges in tropical agriculture, particularly in crop protection and management.

Best Publications

  • Deep Learning for Image-Based Cassava Disease Detection

    Amanda Ramcharan;Kelsee Baranowski;Peter McCloskey;Babuali Ahmed

  • Comparing the regional epidemiology of the cassava mosaic and cassava brown streak virus pandemics in Africa

    J.P. Legg;S.C. Jeremiah;H.M. Obiero;M.N. Maruthi

  • Cassava mosaic geminiviruses in Africa.

    J.P. Legg;J.P. Legg;Claude Fauquet

  • Impact of Host Plant Species and Whitefly Species on Feeding Behavior of Bemisia tabaci.

    Milan Milenovic;Everlyne Nafula Wosula;Carmelo Rapisarda;James Peter Legg

  • World Management of Geminiviruses.

    Maria R. Rojas;Monica A. Macedo;Minor R. Maliano;Maria Soto-Aguilar

  • Cassava Virus Diseases: Biology, Epidemiology, and Management

    James P Legg;P Lava Kumar;T Makeshkumar;Leena Tripathi

  • Cassava mosaic virus disease in East and Central Africa: epidemiology and management of a regional pandemic.

    J.P. Legg;B. Owor;P. Sseruwagi;J. Ndunguru

  • A global surveillance system for crop diseases

    Mónica Carvajal-Yepes;K. Cardwell;A. Nelson;K. A. Garrett

  • Emergence, spread and strategies for controlling the pandemic of cassava mosaic virus disease in east and central Africa

    J.P Legg

  • A distinct Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Aleyrodidae) genotype cluster is associated with the epidemic of severe cassava mosaic virus disease in Uganda.

    J. P. Legg;R. French;D. Rogan;G. Okao-Okuja

  • Cassava mosaic virus disease in East Africa: a dynamic disease in a changing environment.

    J.P. Legg;J.M. Thresh

  • Using Transfer Learning for Image-Based Cassava Disease Detection

    Amanda Ramcharan;Kelsee Baranowski;Peter McClowsky;Babuali Ahmed

  • Methods of surveying the incidence and severity of cassava mosaic disease and whitefly vector populations on cassava in Africa: a review

    P. Sseruwagi;W.S. Sserubombwe;J.P. Legg;J.P. Legg;J. Ndunguru

  • African cassava mosaic virus disease: the magnitude of the problem.

    J. M. Thresh;G. W. Otim-Nape;J. P. Legg;D. Fargette

  • Molecular biodiversity of cassava begomoviruses in Tanzania: evolution of cassava geminiviruses in Africa and evidence for East Africa being a center of diversity of cassava geminiviruses

    J Ndunguru;J P Legg;T A S Aveling;G Thompson

  • A Mobile-Based Deep Learning Model for Cassava Disease Diagnosis.

    Amanda Ramcharan;Peter McCloskey;Kelsee Baranowski;Neema Mbilinyi

  • Cassava brown streak disease: a threat to food security in Africa.

    Basavaprabhu L. Patil;James P. Legg;Edward Kanju;Claude M. Fauquet

  • Spatio-temporal patterns of genetic change amongst populations of cassava Bemisia tabaci whiteflies driving virus pandemics in East and Central Africa

    James P. Legg;Peter Sseruwagi;Simon Boniface;Geoffrey Okao-Okuja

  • Application of FTA technology for sampling, recovery and molecular characterization of viral pathogens and virus-derived transgenes from plant tissues.

    Joseph Ndunguru;Nigel J Taylor;Jitender Yadav;Haytham Aly

  • Biology and management of Bemisia whitefly vectors of cassava virus pandemics in Africa.

    James P Legg;Rudolph Shirima;Lensa S Tajebe;Devid Guastella

Frequent Co-Authors

Claude M. Fauquet
Claude M. Fauquet Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Judith K. Brown
Judith K. Brown University of Arizona
Karen A. Garrett
Karen A. Garrett University of Florida
Zhangjun Fei
Zhangjun Fei Cornell University
William M. Wintermantel
William M. Wintermantel United States Department of Agriculture
Joe Tohme
Joe Tohme Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical
Scott Adkins
Scott Adkins United States Department of Agriculture
Robert L. Gilbertson
Robert L. Gilbertson University of California, Davis
Linda Hanley-Bowdoin
Linda Hanley-Bowdoin North Carolina State University
Roger A. C. Jones
Roger A. C. Jones University of Western Australia

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