Omics technologies, namely genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and
phenomics, are becoming an integral part of virtually every commercial cereal crop breeding …

Introduction: Plants do not grow in isolation, rather they are hosts to a variety of microbes in
their natural environments. While, few thrive in the plants for their own benefit, others may …

Red rot of sugarcane was recorded more than 100 years before in Java, India, Argentina,
USA and other countries, and it is one of the most devastating diseases of sugarcane. Since …

While global climate change poses a significant environmental threat to agriculture, the
increasing population is another big challenge to food security. To address this, developing …

Fungi are among the most successful eukaryotes on Earth: they have evolved strategies to
survive in the most diverse environments and stressful conditions and have been selected …

Sclerotinia stem rot is one of the utmost important disease of mustard, causing considerable
losses in seed yield and oil quality. The study of the genetic and proteomic basis of …

Colletotrichum falcatum, an intriguing hemibiotrophic fungal pathogen causes red rot, a
devastating disease of sugarcane. Repeated in vitro subculturing of C. falcatum under dark …

Monilinia laxa is a necrotrophic plant pathogen able to infect and produce substantial losses
on stone fruit. Three different isolates of M. laxa were characterized according to their …

Colletotrichum falcatum, a hemibiotrophic fungal pathogen, causes one of the major
devastating diseases of sugarcane—red rot. C. falcatum secretes a plethora of molecular …

Pathogens and plants are in a constant battle with one another, the result of which is either
the restriction of pathogen growth via constitutive or induced plant defense responses or the …