Liquid and semi-solid culture media are used to maintain and proliferate bacteria, fungi, and Oomycetes for research in microbiology and plant pathology. In this study, a comparison was made between soybean milk medium, also referred to as soymilk, and media traditionally used for culturing soybean pathogens to determine if soymilk medium was an effective medium for growth of Colletotrichum tru...

Cecile Lahiri, Emory University Katherine B. Dugan, Emory University Xianhong Xie, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Laura Reimers, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Robert D. Burk, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Kathryn Anastos, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Stewart Massad, Washington University Isam-Eldin Eltoum, University of Alabama at Birmingham Xiaonan Xue, Albert Einstein ...

Jingjing ZHANG, Yuxin LIN, Guojun DAI*, Tingting AN, Mingming SUN, Genxi ZHANG, Kaizhou XIE, Jingyu WANG College of Animal Science and Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, P.R. China Key Laboratory for Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction and Molecular Design of Jiangsu Province, Yangzhou, P.R. China Department of Animal Science, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Univers...

Fungal plant pathogens are major threats to food security worldwide. Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and Botrytis cinerea are closely related Ascomycete plant pathogens causing mold diseases on hundreds of plant species. There is no genetic source of complete plant resistance to these broad host range pathogens known to date. Instead, natural plant populations show a continuum of resistance levels con...

Coniothyrium minitans (synonym, Paraphaeosphaeria minitans) is a highly specific mycoparasite of the wide host range crop pathogen Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. The capability C. to destroy sclerotia S. sclerotiorum has been well recognized and it available as widely used biocontrol product Contans WG. We present draft genome sequence Conio (IMI 134523), which previously in extensive studies that f...

Phytopathogenic fungi form intimate associations with host plant species and cause disease. To be successful, fungal pathogens communicate with a susceptible host through the secretion of proteinaceous effectors, hydrolytic enzymes and metabolites. Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and Botrytis cinerea are economically important necrotrophic fungal pathogens that cause disease on numerous crop species. ...

During sclerotial infection of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum the mycoparasite Coniothyrium minitans penetrates through the host cell wall, which contains beta-1,3-glucan as its major component. A PCR-based strategy was used to clone a beta-1,3-glucanase-encoding gene, designated cmg1, from a cDNA library of the fungus. The nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequences of this gene showed high levels o...

By Zahi Kanaan-Atallah, Ph.D. Washington State University May 2003 Chair: Dennis A. Johnson Sclerotinia sclerotiorum (Lib.) de Bary is a cosmopolitan, homothallic and necrotrophic ascomycetous fungus dispersed by airborne ascospores and soilborne sclerotia. It causes disease in over 400 host species. A significant correlation between potato yield losses and stem rot incidence has not been obser...

Cut roses are highly valuable ornamentals and their profitability depends on the flower postharvest performance. Bent neck symptoms in make them unmarketable typically related to physiological disorders, bacteria accumulation vase solution, Botrytis cinerea infection. Unusual bent were observed 4.7% of ‘Orange Crush’ from two commercial shipments, resulting complete collapse. This research was ...