Varietal differences in wilt disease resistance of eggplant and tomato on successively cropped lands

Enhancement of bacterial wilt resistance and rhizosphere health in tomato using bionanocomposites

Biological control agents are useful components in the enhancement of plant disease resistance and improvement of soil properties. Effect of biological control agents (BCAs) as a disease control method in plants is hampered by their vulnerability to environmental and edaphic conditions. This study entailed the use of chitosan-silica nanocomposites for delivery of BCAs. Effect of BCAs-nanocompos...

Identifying Tomato Wilt disease and Controlling It Using Antagonist Bacteria in East Azerbaijan Province

Bacterial wilt caused by Ralstonia solanacearum is one of the most destructive diseases which negatively affect the tomato production worldwide. Considering the importance of the disease, using biological control agents could be effective approaches in reducing the damage of the pathogen. Tomato samples of suspected bacterial wilt disease were gathered from different regions of East Azarbayjan....

Performance of eggplant grafted onto cultivated, wild, and hybrid materials of eggplant and tomato

Eggplant (Solanum melongena) is amenable to grafting and this technique can be exploited to improve production of this vegetable crop. Here, we study the performance of the ‘Cristal F1’ eggplant cultivar grafted onto a total of 17 rootstocks, including five families, each of which is made by two parents and their hybrid, as well a commercial eggplant rootstock and a self-grafted control. Three ...

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...

Tomato spotted wilt virus