Monitoring of pathogenic strains of Fusarium oxysporum (Fox), which cause wilt and rots on agricultural and ornamental plants, is important for predicting disease outbreaks. Since both pathogenic and non-pathogenic strains of Fox are ubiquitous and are able to colonize plant roots, detection of Fox DNA in plant material is not the ultimate proof of an ongoing infection which would cause damage ...

The primary goal of this proposal is to develop novel regeneration technologies needed to engineer walnut rootstocks for pest and disease resistance. The productivity of the walnut industry of California is dependent the availability of superior rootstocks to combat soil disease and pest problems. Individual selections displaying resistance to either Phytophthora crown and root rots or to root ...

Multi-task learning models based on temporal smoothness assumption, in which each time point of a sequence points concerns task prediction, assume the adjacent tasks are similar to other. However, effect outliers is not taken into account. In this paper, we show that even only one outlier will destroy performance entire model. To solve problem, propose two Robust Temporal Smoothness (RoTS) fram...

Plant growth stimulating and antagonistic properties of 7 bacterial isolates beneficial Enterobacter spp. (EPR1- EPR7) screened from the rhizospheric soil Phaseolus vulgaris plants growing in Garhwal Himalaya, Uttarakhand, India was studied against borne phytopathogen Sclerotinia sclerotiorum causes root rots various crops. Among isolates, EPR4 showed 64.8% reduction colony fungal pathogen dual...

Phytophthora cinnamomi is a major pathogen of Eucalyptus marginata (jarrah) in Western Australia (23). It can kill trees of all ages through infection of roots (10,27) or by girdling the trunks of 1to 7year-old trees in situations were the collar is ponded (12,19). Field observations have indicated that periods of waterlogging (low oxygen) can result in the rapid death of trees from P. cinnamom...

INTRODUCTION. THE somewhat arbitrary classification of the wood decays caused by fungi into " brown " and " white " rots has in recent years been the subject of controversy, as it has been suggested that more accurate classification can be based on strictly chemical evidence regarding the effects of the various wood-rotting fungi on wood substance. So far as "brown" rots are concerned a suffici...