Climate change will have major impacts on crop production: not just increasing drought and
heat stress, but also increasing insect and disease loads and the chance of extreme weather …

Brassica juncea is a major oilseed crop in tropical and subtropical countries, especially in
south-east Asia like India, China, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. The widespread cultivation of …

Key message BjuWRR1, a CNL-type R gene, was identified from an east European gene
pool line of Brassica juncea and validated for conferring resistance to white rust by genetic …

Background Albugo candida is a biotrophic oomycete that parasitizes various species of
Brassicaceae, causing a disease (white blister rust) with remarkable convergence in …

Oils extracted from plants have been used predominantly as edible oil. Soybean, peanut,
rapeseed mustard, sunflower, safflower, Sesamum, linseed, castor and cotton seed are …

Brassica juncea (Indian mustard) is an economically important cultivated annual crop
worldwide. However, there are a number of important diseases affecting B. juncea, including …

White rust, causal agent oomycete Albugo candida, is a significant disease of the cultivated
Brassica species. The Indian gene pool lines of oilseed mustard, Brassica juncea, are highly …

White rust [Albugo candida (Pers. Ex. Lev) Kuntze] is an important oomycetes disease of
Indian mustard [Brassica juncea (L.) Czern & Coss] that causes a drastic reduction in seed …

Background Brassica juncea (AABB) is an allotetraploid species containing genomes of B.
rapa (AA) and B. nigra (BB). It is a major oilseed crop in South Asia, and grown on …

Diseases of Edible Oilseed Crops presents an unprecedentedly thorough collection of
information on the diseases of cultivated annual oilseed crops, including peanut, rapeseed …