Verticillium wilt, a disease caused by the fungus dahliae, affects vast range of crops, including strawberries. A field trial was established to evaluate effect broccoli in rotation prior strawberries, anaerobic soil disinfestation (ASD), and mustard cake (MC) alone combination at suppressing V. dahliae. Broccoli, cauliflower fallow plots were year 1, followed strawberry, winter cover crop, let...

Verticillium wilt is a vascular disease causing tremendous damage to cotton production worldwide. However, our knowledge of the mechanisms resistance or susceptibility this very limited. In study, we compared defense transcriptomes (Gossypium hirsutum) cultivars Shidalukang 1 (Verticillium dahliae resistant, HR) and Junmian (V. susceptible, HS) before after V. infection, identified hub genes ne...

Young, visually symptomless leaves from potato (Solanum tuberosum) plants infected with Verticillium dahliae exhibited reduced carbon assimilation rate, stomatal conductance, and intercellular CO(2), but no increase in dark respiration, no change in the relationship between carbon assimilation rate versus intercellular CO(2), and no change in light use efficiency when intercellular CO(2) was he...

Sustainable management of crop productivity and health necessitates improved understanding of the ways in which rhizosphere microbial populations interact with each other, with plant roots and their abiotic environment. In this study we examined the effects of different soils and cultivars, and the presence of a soil-borne fungal pathogen, Verticillium dahliae, on the fungal microbiome of the r...

Spatial patterns of pathogen inoculum in field soils and the resulting patterns of disease may reflect the underlying mechanisms of pathogen dispersal. This knowledge can be used to design more efficient sampling schemes for assessing diseases. Spatial patterns of Verticillium dahliae microsclerotia were characterized in commercial cotton fields through quadrat and point sampling in 1994 and 20...

Meadowfoam (Limnanthes alba L.) is a herbaceous winter-spring annual grown as a commercial oilseed crop. The meal remaining after oil extraction from the seed contains up to 4% of the glucosinolate glucolimnanthin. Degradation of glucolimnanthin yields toxic breakdown products, and therefore the meal may have potential in the management of soilborne pathogens. To maximize the pest-suppressive p...