Powdery mildew is an important disease of rubber trees caused by Oidium heveae B. A. Steinmann. As far as we know, none of the resistance genes related to powdery mildew have been isolated from the rubber tree. There is little information available at the molecular level regarding how a rubber tree develops defense mechanisms against this pathogen. We have studied rubber tree mRNA transcripts f...

Abstract Powdery mildew disease caused by Oidium arachidis poses a threat to peanut production in Africa. Loss of function mutants specific Mlo (Mildew Locus O) genes have provided broad-spectrum and durable resistance against pathogen many crop species. Since there is huge potential utilize susceptibility gene-mediated improvement, genome-wide mining required for further researches. However, t...

Powdery mildew disease caused by Oidium neolycopersici is one of the major diseases affecting tomato production in South Africa. Interestingly, limited studies exist on how this affects community structure microbial communities associated with plants employing shotgun metagenomics. In study, we assess health status a plant diversity rhizosphere community. We collected soil samples from healthy ...

Comparative analysis of common essential constituents between single herbs, Ramulus cinnamomi (RC) and Herba schizonepetae (HS), and herbal pair (HP). RC – HS was performed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) combined with alternative moving window factor analysis (AMWFA) and temperatureprogrammed retention indices (PTRIs). In all, 33, 37, and 43 essential chemical components in ess...

Genetic dissection of disease susceptibility in Arabidopsis to powdery and downy mildew has identified multiple susceptibility (S) genes whose impairment results in disease resistance. Although several of these S-genes have been cloned and characterized in more detail it is unknown to which degree their function in disease susceptibility is conserved among different plant species. Moreover, it ...