One of the possible ways to ensure future food needs of an increasing world population involves the better water use through the development of crop varieties which need less water and are more tolerant to drought. In order to study the response of twenty landraces of bread wheat to drought stress, an experiment was conducted in a randomized complete block design with three replications under t...

Verticillium wilt of olive (VWO), caused by dahliae, is a major concern in many olive-growing countries. An efficient VWO control measure the use tolerant/resistant cultivars. Low information available about secondary metabolites and its relationship with tolerance. In this study, comprehensive metabolic profiling roots six cultivars differing their level tolerance/susceptibility to was address...

Elicitins are small, secreted proteins produced by species of the plant-pathogenic oomycete Phytophthora. They induce hypersensitive cell death in most Nicotiana species and in some cultivars of Brassica rapa and Raphanus sativus. In this study, two true-breeding Fast Cycling B. rapa lines were established that showed severe necrosis (line 7-R) or no visible response (line 18-NR) after treatmen...