Botryosphaeria dieback is one of the most prevalent grapevine trunk diseases (GTDs), and caused by fungi in Botryosphaeriaceae. Fungi invade vascular systems mainly through pruning wounds, cause cankers necrotic lesions, which lead to decline death. Lasiodiplodia theobromae has been reported as a highly virulent pathogen grapevine, was previously Mexican vineyards. The taxonomy recently revised...

Abstract Red raspberry ( Rubus idaeus L.) represents a relevant crop which production has largely increased worldwide during the last decade. Cane blight is one of most common diseases red and it can produce considerable losses. During 2019–2021, surveys were conducted in orchards Cuneo province, Northern Italy, to investigate etiology pathogen diversity association with cane blight. Eleven iso...

The genus Cercospora includes many important plant pathogenic fungi associated with leaf spot diseases on a wide range of hosts. The mainland of Iran covers various climatic regions with a great biodiversity of vascular plants, and a correspondingly high diversity of cercosporoid fungi. However, most of the cercosporoid species found to date have been identified on the basis of morphological ch...

Based on type studies and freshly collected material we here re-instate the genus Thyronectria (Nectriaceae, Hypocreales). Species of this genus were recently for the most part classified in the genera Pleonectria (Nectriaceae) or Mattirolia (Thyridiaceae), because Thyronectria and other genera had been identified as members of the Thyridiaceae due to the presence of paraphyses. Molecular phylo...

The genus Amphichorda has been recently re-erected as an independent lineage from Beauveria, circumscribed within Cordycipitaceae. However, its phylogenetic relationships with other members of this family remain obscure. In our ongoing efforts to expand the knowledge on diversity culturable ascomycetes Mediterranean Sea, we isolated several specimens Amphichorda. Preliminary sequence analyses r...

Citrus is one of the most important fruit crops cultivated in South Africa. Internationally, citrus dry root rot a common disease major production areas. Several abiotic and biotic factors are involved development, which Neocosmospora species agents. The diversity associated with symptoms trees Africa was evaluated using morphological molecular analyses. Multi-locus analysis conducted, based on...

lentinan a polysaccharide from medicinal mushroom i.e lentinus, has been known to have anticancer properties. telomerase activity is not observed in normal healthy cells, whereas in cancerous cells telomerase expression is high. telomerase represents a promising cancer therapeutic target. we investigated the inhibitory effect of lentinan on telomerase reverse transcriptase gene (htert) which is...

lentiviral vectors are promising gene delivery tools capable of transducing a variety of dividing and non-dividing cells, including pluripotent stem cells which are refractory for transduction by murine retroviruses. although there is a growing debate on the safety of lentiviral vectors for gene transfer, in particular for those derived from human immunodeficiency viruses, type one (hiv-1) and ...