Abstract Background The plant microbiome plays a vital role in determining host health and productivity. However, we lack real-world comparative understanding of the factors which shape assembly its diverse biota, crucially relationships between microbiota composition health. Here investigated landscape scale rhizosphere microbial processes oilseed rape (OSR), UK’s third most cultivated crop by...

SLYKHUIS, J. T., and D. J. S. BARR. 1978. Confirmation of Polymyxa graminis as a vector of wheat spindle streak mosaic virus. Phytopathology 68: 639-643. Wheat spindle streak mosaic virus was transmitted via isolates of each of the zoosporic fungi were cultured on wheat water from soil-free roots of wheat plants infected by growing infected with the virus by sap inoculation of leaves, the virus...

During surveys undertaken from 1998 to 2003 in the major vegetable growing areas of the city of São Paulo green belt, lettuce (Lactuca sativa) and endive (Cichorium endivia) plants were observed, which showed chlorotic thickening of foliar veins, defective growth and, in some cases, failure to form complete heads. Biological and serological [DAS-Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (Elisa)] tests ...