Cottonball, caused by the fungus Monilinia oxycocci, is an economically important disease on many cranberry marshes in Wisconsin. Cottonball has also been described in the Pacific Northwest and southeastern Canada, but losses in these areas have generally been minor. For reasons that are not known, cottonball has increased in importance in Wisconsin over the past 30 years. In recent years, abou...

A variety of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) produced by Ceratocystis fimbriata have strong bioactivity against a wide range of fungi, bacteria and oomycetes. Mycelial growth, conidial production, and spore germination of fungi and oomycetes were significantly inhibited after exposure to cultures of C. fimbriata, and colony formation of bacteria was also inhibited. Two post-harvest diseases, ...

Apple and Guava are an important fruit crops grown commercially in different agro climatic conditions of India for its diversified use. These fruits were respectively post harvested affected by Monilinia and Rhizoctonia solani fungi. Investigation was made on histochemical localization of different metabolites, like starch, insoluble polysaccharides, protein, peroxidase, acid phosphatase and po...

In the recent years, noble nanoparticles are considered important in the field of biology, medicine and electronics owing to their unique particle size and shape dependent physical, chemical and biological properties. The nanoparticles have been synthesized by using toxic chemical and high energy physical procedures. To overcome this problem, biological materials have been used for the synthesi...

The use of vermicompost in agriculture has become increasingly common, especially organic agriculture. In this research, the suppression efficiency horse and cattle extracts against some aerial fungal plant pathogens (Monilinia laxa, Cytospora leucostoma, Botryosphaeria obtusa, Phomopsis viticola, Alternaria mali, Botrytis cinerea) that damage fruit trees are common production areas, was studie...

1. 1,4-Dideoxy-1,4-imino-L-threitol was synthesized and the synthesis of 1,4-dideoxy-1,4-imino-L-arabinitol was improved. 2. Both compounds are competitive inhibitors of Monilinia fructigena alpha-L-arabinofuranosidase III, the additional hydroxymethyl group in the arabinitol contributing about 17.8 kj/mol (4.25 kcal/mol) to the Gibbs free energy of binding. 3. The affinities (1/Ki) of both com...