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Cranberry fruit are a rich source of bioactive compounds that may function as constitutive or inducible barriers against rot-inducing fungi. The content and composition of these compounds change as the season progresses. Several necrotrophic fungi cause cranberry fruit rot disease complex. These fungi remain mostly asymptomatic until the fruit begins to mature in late August. Temporal fluctuati...

UNLABELLED SUMMARY The rapid global re-emergence of Fusarium head blight disease of wheat and barley in the last decade along with contamination of grains with mycotoxins attributable to the disease have spurred basic research on the fungal causal agent. As a result, Fusarium graminearum quickly has become one of the most intensively studied fungal plant pathogens. This review briefly summarize...

The escalating populations in Africa contribute to the already existing challenge of food insecurity, which is further exacerbated by emergence and resurgence pests diseases, resulting substantial annual yield losses. Maize, a vital staple crop sub-Saharan Africa, serves as crucial source, animal fodder, raw material for industries. Nonetheless, its vulnerability diseases puts significant press...

Maize (Zea mays L.) is an important crop in sub-Sahara Africa for both human consumption and livestock feed. use often limited by ear-rotting fungi, some of which produce deleterious secondary metabolites. The aim this study was to determine the inheritance resistance Fusarium verticillioides as indirect way selecting metabolites such mycotoxin fumonisin that produced fungus, under artificial i...

Abstract In this work, following the discrete de Rham approach, we develop a counterpart of two-dimensional complex with enhanced regularity. The proposed construction supports general polygonal meshes and arbitrary approximation orders. We establish exactness on contractible domain for both versions without boundary conditions and, former, prove complete set Poincaré-type inequalities. is then...