Invasive soilborne plant pathogens cause substantial damage to crops and natural populations, but our understanding of how to prevent their epidemics or reduce their damage is limited. A key and experimentally-tested concept in the epidemiology of soilborne plant diseases is that of a threshold spacing between hosts below which epidemics (invasive spread) can occur. We extend this paradigm by e...

trichoderma harzianum (t39), t.virens (dar74290), t.viride (mo), t. harzianum (m) and trichderminb a commercial formulation of t. harzianum(bi) were evaluated as potential biological agents for the control of charcoal stem rot in melon caused by macrophomina phaseolina. cell-free metabolites of t. harzianum(m), t. harzianum (t39) and t. virens (dar 74290) inhibited growth of m. phaseolina compl...

Weiland, J. E. 2014. Pythium species and isolate diversity influence inhibition by the biological control agent Streptomyces lydicus. Plant Dis. 98:653-659. Disease control of soilborne pathogens by biological control agents (BCAs) is often inconsistent under field conditions. This inconsistency may be partly influenced by pathogen diversity if there is a differential response among pathogen sp...

In many Arkansas cotton fields, factors such as inefficient tillage operations, extremely dry weather and traffic pressure may result in a compacted soil layer or hardpan. Soil compaction dramatically increases soil strength and can restrict cotton root penetration, leading to suppressed cotton height and lint yield (Taylor and Earl Burnett, 1963). This problem may be exacerbated by soilborne p...

Bacillus subtilis is a nonpathogenic bacterium that lives in soil and has long been used as biological control agent in agriculture. Here, we report the genome sequence of a B. subtilis strain isolated from rhizosphere of onion that shows strong biological activity against the soilborne fungal pathogen Setophoma terrestris.

Rhizoctonia stem canker and black scurf. Rhizoctonia diseases of potato are caused.Black scurf on a potato tuber caused by Rhizoctonia solani. Rhizoctonia potato disease is an important constraint to potato production. The disease.ISBN 978-952-10-5475-4 PDF http:ethesis.helsinki.fi. 2 Variation of biological traits in Rhizoctonia solani isolated from potato. Abstract Rhizoctonia solani is an im...

Fusarium culmorum is a soilborne fungal plant pathogen that causes foot and root rot and Fusarium head blight on small-grain cereals, in particular on wheat and barley. We report herein the draft genome sequence of a 1998 field strain called FcUK99 adapted to the temperate climate found in England.

Ceratocystis wilt, caused by Ceratocystis fimbriata, has become the most important disease in eucalyptus (Eucalyptus spp. and hybrids) plantations in Brazil. To further our understanding of the epidemiology of this disease, we surveyed eucalyptus plantations in the states of Minas Gerais and Bahia that were known to have Ceratocystis wilt or were thought to have been planted with infected roote...

ABSTRACT The spatial distribution and temporal development of tomato crown and root rot, caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. radicis-lycopersici, were studied in naturally infested fields in 1996 and 1997. Disease progression fit a logistic model better than a monomolecular one. Geostatistical analyses and semivariogram calculations revealed that the disease spreads from infected plants to a di...