We report here the draft genome sequence of tombunodavirus UC1 assembled from metagenomic sequencing of organisms in San Francisco wastewater. This virus shares hallmarks of members of the Tombusviridae and the nodavirus-like Plasmopara halstedii and Sclerophthora macrospora viruses.

The obligate biotroph oomycete Plasmopara halstedii causes downy mildew on sunflower crop, Helianthus annuus. The breakdown of several Pl resistance genes used in sunflower hybrids over the last 25 years came along with the appearance of new Pl. halstedii isolates showing modified virulence profiles. In oomycetes, two classes of effector proteins, key players of pathogen virulence, are transloc...

Plasmopara halstedii is an obligate biotrophic oomycete causing downy mildew disease on sunflower, Helianthus annuus, an economically important oil crop. Severe symptoms of the disease (e.g., plant dwarfism, leaf bleaching, sporulation and production of infertile flower) strongly impair seed yield. Pl resistance genes conferring resistance to specific P. halstedii pathotypes were located on sun...

The first report of Plasmopara halstedii race 337 in the Russian Federation | Maria Iwebor, Tatiana Antonova, Nina Araslanova, Svetlana Saukova, Yulia Pitinova, Ksenia Eliseeva, Aleksey Belorutskiy Agricultural Journals

Methanolic extracts of eight medicinal plants were screened for their anti-mildew activity against Plasmopara halstedii, incitant of downy mildew of sunflower. Extracts of Morinda citrifolia, Zingiber officinale, and Tinospora cordifollia were found to be best in reducing the sporulation of P. halstedii in both the whole leaf and leaf disc method. Further; the phytochemical analysis of these ex...

A total of 82 isolates of Plasmopara halstedii, collected from all production areas of Hungary between 1976 and 1993, were assessed for their virulence pattern on a standard set of sunfiower differentials under glasshouse conditions. The isolates were classified into six pathogenic races each representing a particular virulence phenotyjje. From 1976 until 1988 all the isolates were found to be ...

Components of quantitative resistance in sunflower (Helianthus annuus) to Plasmopara halstedii, the pathogen causing downy mildew, were investigated. Percentage infection, latent period, sporulation density and reduction of hypocotyl length were compared on two sunflower lines showing different levels of quantitative resistance in the field infected with different P. halstedii strains of races ...