SBRM-DB: Sugar beet root maggot database

Sugar beet (SB), Beta vulgaris ssp, vulgaris (B. vulgaris), is one of only two plants in the world from which significant amounts of raw sugar is produced. This value of sugar, derived from SB, is 55% in the United States and 35% of global raw sugar with an annual farm worth in the U.S. alone of $1B, $4.6B globally. Tetanops myopaeformis (von Röder), the sugar beet root maggot (SBRM), is a devastating insect pathogen of SB and the most devastating SB pathogen in North America, decreasing...