Tomato Verticillium wilt is a soil-borne vascular disease caused by the necrotrophic fungus Verticillium dahliae. Although some understanding of plant defense mechanisms against V. dahliae infection has been gained for incompatible interactions, including identification of inducible resistant genes and defense signaling pathways, the genes and signaling pathways involved in the compatible inter...

Verticillium wilt (caused by Verticillium dahliae), a soilborne disease, often causes significant reductions of yield in eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) production where crop rotation is limited. Rootstock replacement through grafting is considered an effective method to control this disease. This 2-year study investigated the eggplant yield, resistance to verticillium wilt, and allelochemicals...

Verticillium wilt is a vascular disease predominantly caused by the soil-borne fungi Verticillium dahliae and Verticillium albo-atrum. Most of the commercial potato cultivars grown in the USA are susceptible to Verticillium, resulting in significant crop losses. Development of new cultivars with resistance gene(s) against the pathogen can be assisted with molecular marker technology that allows...

We studied the possibility that the antagonistic saprobe fungi Coriolopsis rigida, Trametes versicolor, Fusarium lateritium, Penicillium chrysogenum and Verticillium dahliae-2379 may control V. dahliae disease through the inhibition of the activity of hydrolytic enzymes produced by the pathogen. These saprobe fungi were able to decrease the growth in vitro of V. dahliae. The exudates produced b...

Verticillium wilt, caused by the Verticillium dahliae phytopathogen, is a devastating disease affecting many economically important crops. Previous studies have shown that the exoproteome of V. dahliae plays a significant role in this pathogenic process, but the components and mechanisms that underlie this remain unclear. In this study, the exoproteome of V. dahliae was induced in a cotton-cont...

cotton cultivar coker has been already transformed with recombinant pbi121-chi via agrobacterium tumefaciens. the t-dna region of pbi121-chi carries the chitinase (chi ) gene from bean and is under the control of the camv35s promoter. t1 and t2 progenies of transgenic cotton containing the chi gene were used in this study.  polymerase chain reaction (pcr), southern and western blotting data con...

There are major gaps in the understanding of how genetic variation is generated in the asexual pathogen Verticillium dahliae. On the one hand, V. dahliae is a haploid organism that reproduces clonally. On the other hand, single-nucleotide polymorphisms and chromosomal rearrangements were found between V. dahliae strains. Lineage-specific (LS) regions comprising about 5% of the genome are highly...