A Soilless Verticillium Wilt Assay Using an Early Flowering Lettuce Line

Biology and Epidemiology of Verticillium Wilt of Lettuce

Effect of soilless growing systems on the spread of Verticillium dahliae and the severity of the Verticillium wilt in strawberry

The dispersion of soilborne plant pathogens could be greater in closed soilless growing systems than in open ones. The effect of three soilless growing systems (open, closed and closed with slow sand filtration) on the dispersion of Verticillium dahliae propagules and the severity of the disease in strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa Duch.) has been analysed. V. dahliae dispersion in a closed syste...

Soilless Culture Technology for High Quality Lettuce

The aim of this research was to evaluate butterhead lettuce quality in a soilless culture system. Butterhead lettuce cultivar “Lores” was cultivated, and two experiments were performed. In the first, floating system (FS) and soil culture (SC) were compared in fall (autumn) prduction [2002 2003], while in the second, substrate culture (PC) (plastic gutter filled with perlite) with three differen...

Desirable Traits of a Good Biocontrol Agent against Verticillium Wilt

The soil-borne fungus Verticillium causes serious vascular disease in a wide variety of annual crops and woody perennials. Verticillium wilt is notoriously difficult to control by conventional methods, so there is great potential for biocontrol to manage this disease. In this study we aimed to review the research about Verticillium biocontrol to get a better understanding of characteristics tha...

Genetic dissection of Verticillium wilt resistance mediated by tomato Ve1.

Vascular wilt diseases caused by soil-borne pathogens are among the most devastating plant diseases worldwide. The Verticillium genus includes vascular wilt pathogens with a wide host range. Although V. longisporum infects various hosts belonging to the Cruciferaceae, V. dahliae and V. albo-atrum cause vascular wilt diseases in over 200 dicotyledonous species, including economically important c...