Cucurbita species can be affected by soil-borne pathogens, such as Phytopthora capsici and Fusarium solani f. sp. cucurbitae (Fsc). Diverse commercial conserved lines of spp. were tested. C. pepo subsp. genotypes showed the highest susceptibility to both pathogens. The tolerance P. Fsc was then screened in a zucchini mutant population. Two M3 (Cp107 Cp116) with high occurrence tolerant individu...

A PCR-based ‘molecular tool box’, based on a region of the ras-related protein gene Ypt 1, was developed for the identification of 15 Phytophthora species that damage forests and trees: P. cactorum , P. cambivora , P. cinnamomi , P. citricola , P. europaea , P. inundata , P. lateralis , P. megasperma , P. nemorosa , P. kernoviae , P. pseudosyringae , P. psychrophila , P. quercina , P. ramorum a...

4. Schumann GL. Plant diseases: their biology and social impact. St. Paul: American Phytopathological Society Press; 1993. 5. Goodwin SB, Smart CD, Sandrock RW, Deahl KL, Punja ZK, Fry WE. Genetic change within populations of Phytopthora infestans in the United States and Canada during 1994 to 1996—role of migration and recombination. Phytopathology 1998;88:939-49. 6. Prins M, Goldbach R. The e...

This issue of Mycological Research News features : Fungi from coral reefs : a commentary. An obituary of Meinhard M. Moser (1924–2002), doyen of European agaricologists and a Centenary Fellow of the British Mycological Society, is also presented. Molecular papers in this part include the characterization of an a-L-arabinofuranosidase gene in Penicillium, the proteomomics of development in a Phy...