Plants recognize invading pathogens and respond biochemically to prevent invasion or inhibit colonization in plant cells. Enhancing this response in crop plants could improve sustainable methods to manage plant diseases. To enhance disease resistance in soybean, the soybean phytoalexin glyceollin was assessed in soybean hairy roots of two soybean genotypes, Spencer and PI 567374, transformed wi...

Macrophomina phaseolina has a wide host range and is responsible for causing losses on m cultivated and wild plant species. So far in Pakistan it has been reported to cause disease on hosts including field crops, pulses, flowers and vegetable have been reported. Infection on s first reported from Sri Lanka in 1927 and in 1982 it was reported from sunflower field in fungus is reported to be soil...

BACKGROUND Heterologous protein expression in microorganisms may contribute to identify and demonstrate antifungal activity of novel proteins. The Solanum nigrum osmotin-like protein (SnOLP) gene encodes a member of pathogenesis-related (PR) proteins, from the PR-5 sub-group, the last comprising several proteins with different functions, including antifungal activity. Based on deduced amino aci...

ABSTRACT The biochemical defense mechanisms of amphibians involve cutaneous secretions bioactive molecules with antimicrobial activity. This study evaluated the in vitro activity methanolic extracts from two amphibian species Bufonidae family, Rhaebo guttatus and Rhinella marina, control phytopathogens Fusarium udum, solani, Colletotrichum truncatum, Aspergillus flavus, Rhizoctonia Macrophomina...