Verticillium wilt caused by Verticillium dahliae is a common soil-borne disease worldwide,
affecting many economically important crop species. Soil microbes can influence plant …

Background: Candida auris is an emerging, multidrug-resistant yeast causing hospital
outbreaks. This study describes the first 24 months of the ongoing C. auris outbreak in our …

High-throughput sequencing of a targeted genetic marker is being widely used to analyze
biodiversity across taxa and environments. Amid a multitude of exciting findings, scientists …

Phylogenetic and taxonomic studies on the brown-rot fungi Postia and related genera, are
carried out. Phylogenies of these fungi are reconstructed with multiple loci DNA sequences …

Thirteen new species are formally described: Cortinarius brunneocarpus from Pakistan, C.
lilacinoarmillatus from India, Curvularia khuzestanica on Atriplex lentiformis from Iran …

Significant interest exists in engineering the soil microbiome to attain suppression of soil-
borne plant diseases. Anaerobic soil disinfestation (ASD) has potential as a biologically …

The fungicides used to control plant pathogenic fungi not only kill the fungi but also affect
other flora and fauna in the field. To preserve beneficial flora, novel strategies and …

We studied mycobionts from advanced seedlings and adult mycorrhizal roots of the
terrestrial orchid Arundina graminifolia. Fungi were isolated, identified by ITS sequencing …

Seven isolates of Trichoderma spp.(T1 to T7) from Egypt were evaluated in vitro by bioassay
for their potential to antagonize Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici (FOL, the causal …

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) of amplicons is used in a wide variety of contexts. In
many cases, NGS amplicon sequencing remains overly expensive and inflexible, with library …