Food losses, defined as a reduction in the quantity and quality of food during production storage, impact safety security. Losses caused by plant pathogens are among most significant. Chemical pesticides have been extensively used to prevent microbial diseases. Their toxicity reduced efficacy, however, encouraged investigators develop alternatives. Alternatives based on biopesticides tend be sa...

Increasing public concerns about fungicide residues have prompted interests in biological control especially use of herb extracts derived from several medicinal plants as an alternative strategy for disease management. Recently tomato leaf spot disease caused by Alternaria alternata has become epidemic in almost areas of Iran. This study was conducted for the identification of the effect of ant...

A plant disease is defined as anything that prevents a plant from performing to its maximal potential. A plant disease has impacted society and world olden times. Plant diseases have caused enormous economic losses in each one the countries. Diagnosis of diseases in plant is the fortitude of the grounds of a disease in plant, and detection refers to the identification of microorganisms. Failure...

Plant breeders have used disease resistance genes (R genes) to control plant disease since the turn of the century. Molecular cloning of R genes that enable plants to resist a diverse range of pathogens has revealed that the proteins encoded by these genes have several features in common. These findings suggest that plants may have evolved common signal transduction mechanisms for the expressio...

Actually, with the objective to find new technologies, ecologically or environmentally safer, for the control of plant diseases, mainly in organic growth, alternative methods for the control of phytopathogens are been development. This kind of alternative methods are been investigated in our ‘Biological and Alternative Control of Plant Diseases’ research group. An overview of the our researches...