Verticillium wilt, caused by Verticillium dahliae Kleb., is one of the most important diseases of peppers. Harpin is a bio-activator that may be used as an alternative control against insects and fungi. Therefore, the aim of this study was to describe how harpin affected plants that had been inoculated with V. dahliae. Disease severity in harpin+V. dahliae-treated plants was lowered by a rate o...

The morphology of two soil-borne Verticillium species, V. dahliae and V. tricorpus, was studied on two semi-selective agar media, in the absence and presence of soil. Morphology of the fungi differed considerably between the media, with respect to presence and shape of microsclerotia, dark hyphae (i.e. short melanised hyphae attached to the microsclerotia) and dark mycelium (i.e. melanised myce...

Pestalafuranones A-E (compounds 1-5), five new 2(5H)-furanones, have been isolated from cultures of an isolate of Pestalotiopsis besseyi. The structures of these compounds were elucidated mainly by analysis of their NMR spectroscopic data and HRESIMS experiments. Pestalafuranones A-C (compounds 1-3) displayed weak inhibitory effects against HIV-1 replication in C8166 cells, whereas pestalafuran...

PevD1 is a fungal protein secreted by Verticillium dahliae. Our previous researches showed that this protein could induce hypersensitive responses-like necrosis and systemic acquired resistance (SAR) in cotton and tobacco. To understand immune activation mechanisms whereby PevD1 elicits defense response, the yeast two-hybrid (Y2H) assay was performed to explore interacting protein of PevD1 in A...

The tomato crop is exposed to serious losses due infection with several diseases and pests, which threaten production in Egypt worldwide. Therefore, selecting the germplasm resistant a specific pathogen by molecular markers closely linked resistance loci desirable goal of this study. In work, seven co-dominant targeting six genes (I-1, Ve, Ph3, Cf-9/Cf-4, Rx4, Pto) for main [ fusarium wilt (Fus...

Restructuring tilth layers (RTL) is a tillage method that exchanges the 0–20 and 20–40 cm soil can be applied during cotton cultivation to increase yield, eliminate weeds alleviate severe disease, including Verticillium wilt. However, mechanism by which RTL inhibits wilt unclear. Therefore, we investigated distribution of microbial communities after rotary (CK) treatments identify reasons for r...

The Bacillus subtilis strain NCD-2 is an important biocontrol agent against cotton verticillium wilt and cotton sore shin in the field, which are caused by Verticillium dahliae Kleb and Rhizoctonia solani Kuhn, respectively. A mutant of strain NCD-2, designated M216, with decreased antagonism to V. dahliae and R. solani, was selected by mini-Tn10 mutagenesis and in vitro virulence screening. Th...