The cucurbit vegetables, including cucumbers, melons and pumpkins, have been cultivated for thousands of years without fungicides. However, their seed germination stage is prone to be infected by soil-borne fungal and oomycete pathogens. Endophytes are symbionts that reside inside plant tissues including seeds. Seed endophytes are founders of the juvenile plant microbiome and can promote host d...

Interactions between plants and microbiomes play a key role in ecosystem functioning are of broad interest due to their influence on nutrient cycling plant protection. However, we do not yet have complete understanding how assembled. Here, tested quantified the effect different factors driving diversity composition plant-associated microbial communities. We manipulated soil (high or low diversi...

in the framework of a study on the powdery mildew fungi in iran, several infected plant specimens were collected from around the country during 2001-2009. based on the results of the study erysiphe quercicola on quercus sp. and e. malvae on malva sp., golovinomyces ambrosiae on helianthus spp., golovinomyces fischeri on senecio glaucus, are the newly reported for iranian mycobiota. in addition,...

Powdery mildew (Podosphaera aphanis) is a major disease in day-neutral strawberry. Up to 30% yield losses have been observed Eastern Canada. Currently, management of powdery mostly based on fungicide applications without consideration risk. The objective this study use P. aphanis inoculum, host ontogenic resistance, and weather predictors forecast the risk strawberry using CART models (classifi...