Pathogenicity factors are important aspects of the arsenal of fungal agents, allowing them to
infect a broad range of hosts or to specifically target a crop by being capable of evading host …

Botryosphaeriaceae are a family of fungi associated with the decay of a large number of
woody plants with economic importance and causing particularly great losses in viticulture …

Fungi and oomycetes are filamentous microorganisms that include a diversity of highly
developed pathogens of plants. These are sophisticated modulators of plant processes that …

Grapevine is a major and highly valuable fruit crop with roughly 2.25 mil ha grown
worldwide in 2007 (source: US Food and Agriculture Organization). Unfortunately, most of …

Downy mildew, powdery mildew, grey mould, black rot, and grapevine trunk diseases are
among the most important fungal or oomycete diseases affecting grapevine, with a high …

It is hypothesized that the virulence of phytopathogenic fungi is mediated through the
secretion of small effector proteins that interfere with the defence responses of the host plant …

Grapevine trunk diseases (Eutypa dieback, esca and Botryosphaeria dieback) are caused
by a complex of xylem-inhabiting fungi, which severely reduce yields in vineyards …

Fungi are the most important group of pathogens on plants from an economic point of view.
This results in part from the fact that fungi are extremely varied in the ways they attack plants …

Traditional cultivated grapevine (Vitis vinifera) is susceptible to many fungal and oomycete
pathogens causing devastating diseases including powdery mildew, downy mildew, grey …

Fruit losses during postharvest storage and handling due to pathogen infections are one of
the major problems in the global food chain supply. The application of chemical fungicides …