Soilborne plant pathogenic species in the fungal genus Verticillium cause destructive
Verticillium wilt disease on economically important crops worldwide. Since R gene-mediated …

Steroids are a pivotal class of hormones with a key role in growth modulation and signal
transduction in multicellular organisms. Synthetic steroids are widely used to cure large …

Sugar unloading in grape berries is a crucial step in the long-distance transport of
carbohydrates from grapevine leaves to berries. Brassinosteroids (BRs) mediate many …

Natural infections of Verticillium spp.(Fungi, Ascomycota) on Ailanthus altissima have
suggested to consider the biological control as a promising strategy to counteract this …

Citrullus lanatus (watermelon) is susceptible to Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. niveum (FON)
infection, which causes wilt disease. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus (AMF) colonization can …

In plants, brassinosteroids (BRs) are a class of steroidal hormones that are involved in
numerous physiological responses. However, the function of BRs in cold tolerance in cotton …

Heavy metals have become part and parcel of environmental contamination because of
rapid industrialization and urbanization. The increasing levels of heavy metals in the …

Brassinosteroids are well known to mitigate biotic stresses; however, their role to induce
tolerance against Verticillium dahliae is unknown. The current study employed V. dahliae …

Plants in their lifetime interact with a wide variety of microbes that can be pathogenic or
beneficial. While beneficial microbes can be either endophytes or rhizospheric, pathogenic …

Vascular wilt caused by Fusarium oxysporum is the most limiting disease that affects cape
gooseberry (Physalis peruviana L.) crops in Colombia. The use of synthetic elicitors for …