A review of the most common and economically important diseases that undermine the cultivation of tomato crop in the mediterranean basin

S Panno, S Davino, AG Caruso, S Bertacca… - Agronomy, 2021 - mdpi.com
Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.), family Solanaceae, has become in the past fifty years
one of the most important and extensively grown horticultural crops in the Mediterranean …

Analysis and review of trichomes in plants

X Wang, C Shen, P Meng, G Tan, L Lv - BMC plant biology, 2021 - Springer
Background Trichomes play a key role in the development of plants and exist in a wide
variety of species. Results In this paper, it was reviewed that the structure and morphology …

Bidirectional cross-kingdom RNAi and fungal uptake of external RNAs confer plant protection

M Wang, A Weiberg, FM Lin, BPHJ Thomma… - Nature plants, 2016 - nature.com
Aggressive fungal pathogens such as Botrytis and Verticillium spp. cause severe crop
losses worldwide. We recently discovered that Botrytis cinerea delivers small RNAs (Bc …

Microbiome manipulation by a soil-borne fungal plant pathogen using effector proteins

NC Snelders, H Rovenich, GC Petti, M Rocafort… - Nature Plants, 2020 - nature.com
During colonization of their hosts, pathogens secrete effector proteins to promote disease
development through various mechanisms. Increasing evidence shows that the host …

Plant pathogenic fungi

G Doehlemann, B Ökmen, W Zhu… - The fungal …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Fungi have developed a plethora of strategies to colonize plants, and these interactions
result in a broad spectrum of outcomes ranging from beneficial interactions to death of the …

The xylem as battleground for plant hosts and vascular wilt pathogens

KA Yadeta, BPH J. Thomma - Frontiers in plant science, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Vascular wilts are among the most destructive plant diseases that occur in annual crops as
well as in woody perennials. These diseases are generally caused by soil-borne bacteria …

Transposons passively and actively contribute to evolution of the two-speed genome of a fungal pathogen

L Faino, MF Seidl, X Shi-Kunne, M Pauper… - Genome …, 2016 - genome.cshlp.org
Genomic plasticity enables adaptation to changing environments, which is especially
relevant for pathogens that engage in “arms races” with their hosts. In many pathogens …

Tomato immune receptor Ve1 recognizes effector of multiple fungal pathogens uncovered by genome and RNA sequencing

R De Jonge, H Peter van Esse… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Fungal plant pathogens secrete effector molecules to establish disease on their hosts, and
plants in turn use immune receptors to try to intercept these effectors. The tomato immune …

Diversity, pathogenicity, and management of Verticillium species

SJ Klosterman, ZK Atallah, GE Vallad… - Annual review of …, 2009 - annualreviews.org
The genus Verticillium encompasses phytopathogenic species that cause vascular wilts of
plants. In this review, we focus on Verticillium dahliae, placing emphasis on the controversy …

Lignin metabolism has a central role in the resistance of cotton to the wilt fungus Verticillium dahliae as revealed by RNA-Seq-dependent transcriptional analysis and …

L Xu, L Zhu, L Tu, L Liu, D Yuan, L Jin… - Journal of …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
The incompatible pathosystem between resistant cotton (Gossypium barbadense cv. 7124)
and Verticillium dahliae strain V991 was used to study the cotton transcriptome changes …