Summa Phytopathol., Botucatu, v. 40, n. 2, p. 134-140, 2014 The purple passionfruit plant, Passiflora edulis Sims, ranks second in fruit exportation in Colombia, and its main destination is the European market. However, its production is affected by several diseases, including fusariosis. This paper presents the histopathological features of different tissues affected by the pathogens Fusarium ...

plant lipid transfer proteins (ltps) are members of the pathogenesis-related proteins (pr-14) and some of them exhibit activity against phytopathogenic fungi. to investigate whether rice ltp2 plays a role in antifungal activity, the coding region of an iranian rice ltp2 gene was cloned into expression vector pet24-d(+) and then expressed in escherichia coli rosetta strain (de3). the potential a...

PURPOSE Fungal ocular infections cause significant ocular morbidity, particularly when diagnosis and treatment are delayed. Accurate morphologic identification of Fusarium spp. beyond the genus is time-consuming and insensitive. It was the purpose of this study to examine the usefulness of the nuclear ribosomal RNA (rRNA) internal transcribed spacer regions (ITS1 and -2) to detect and different...

this study was carried out to evaluate the in vitro and in vivo antifungal efficacy of essential oil and extracts derived from the flower and leaves of magnolia liliflora, respectively, against plant pathogenic fungi. the oil (750 μg disc-1) and various leaf extracts such as hexane, chloroform, ethyl acetate and methanol (1,500 μg disc-1) revealed promising antifungal effects against botrytis c...

The most frequently soil-borne fungal pathogens on plants are Fusarium species that make high economical damages in various agricultural locations in Iran. Our studies show that Fusarium species cause significant yield losses in main crops especially potato, pea, bean, wheat, corn and rice in several parts of the country. The diseases resulted in yield losses to the extent of 30 to 70% in the f...

The trend to search novel microbial natural biocides has recently been increasing in order to avoid the environmental pollution from use of synthetic pesticides. Among these novel natural biocides are the bioactive secondary metabolites of Burkholderia gladioli pv. agaricicola (Bga). The aim of this study is to determine antifungal activity of Bga strains against some phytopathogenic fungi. The...

Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) are studied in different agricultural crops but the interaction of PGPR of tea crop is not yet studied well. In the present study, the indigenous tea rhizobacteria were isolated from seven tea estates of Darjeeling located in West Bengal, India. A total of 150 rhizobacterial isolates were screened for antagonistic activity against six different fungal...