Black pepper (Piper nigrum L.), a tropical spice crop of global acclaim, is susceptible to Phytophthora capsici, an oomycete pathogen which causes the highly destructive foot rot disease. A systematic understanding of this phytopathosystem has not been possible owing to lack of genome or proteome information. In this study, we explain an integrated transcriptome-assisted label-free quantitative...

Phytophthora capsici es uno de los patógenos más devastadores que limita la producción paprika (Capsicum annuum L.) en el Mundo. Asimismo, Trichoderma destaca como agente biocontrolador por su efecto antagonista, inductor resistencia, estimulador crecimiento, etc. El presente trabajo evaluó eficacia T. viride controlador biológico para P. páprika bajo tres métodos siembra (directa, plantín y ra...

Laccases are blue copper oxidases (E.C. 1.10.3.2) that catalyze the one-electron oxidation of phenolics, aromatic amines, and other electron-rich substrates with the concomitant reduction of O2 to H2O. A novel laccase gene pclac2 and its corresponding full-length cDNA were cloned and characterized from Phytophthora capsici for the first time. The 1683 bp full-length cDNA of pclac2 encoded a mat...

Plant disease can be effectively suppressed in intercropping systems. Our previous study demonstrated that neighboring maize plants can restrict the spread of soil-borne pathogens of pepper plants by secreting defense compounds into the soil. However, whether maize plant can receive benefits from its neighboring pepper plants in an intercropping system is little attention. We examined the effec...

Diseases are the most important factors limiting production of Theobroma cacao in South America. Because of high disease pressure and environmental concerns, biological control is a pertinent area of research for cacao disease management. In this work, we evaluated the ability of four Bacillus spp. isolated from vegetable crops, for their ability to colonize T. cacao seedlings and reduce the se...

For the study, 36 soil samples with roots parts were taken from root zone of better grown healthy pepper plants fields Kahramanmaras province. Bacterial isolations made collected samples. Overall, 713 isolates obtained bacteria colonies based on morphological characteristics differences. By measuring radius inhibition zone, ZHA17 was determined to be most effective isolate. Fifteen selected the...

A set of N-arylbenzenesulfonamides with various substituents at the arylamine and benzenesulfonyl positions were prepared, and their antifungal properties were measured in vitro against such plant pathogenic fungi as Pythium ultimum, Phytophthora capsici, Rhizoctonia solani, and Botrytis cinerea. Compounds 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 14, 16, 18, 20, 21, 24 and 27 had antifungal activity over a broad spectr...