Diagnostic technologies for the detection of plant pathogens with point-of-care capability
and high multiplexing ability are an essential tool in the fight to reduce the large agricultural …

Phytopathogenic fungal species can cause enormous losses in quantity and quality of crop
yields and this is a major economic issue in the global agricultural sector. Precise and rapid …

The success of sustainable agricultural practices has now become heavily dependent on the
interactions between crop plants and their associated microbiome. Continuous …

The majority of plant pathogens are fungi and many of these adversely affect food security.
This minireview aims to provide an analysis of the plant pathogenic fungi for which genome …

Pseudoperonospora cubensis is an obligate oomycete and cause of cucurbit downy mildew
(CDM), the most destructive foliar disease affecting cucurbit hosts. Annual epidemics …

Saffron (Crocus sativus L.) is the most expensive spice plant and is distributed widely
around the world. However, its production is limited by corm rot, a disastrous disease …

Downy mildew on spinach is caused by Peronospora effusa, an oomycete pathogen that
poses a challenge to spinach production worldwide, especially in organic production …

Downy mildews are plant pathogens that damage crop quality and yield worldwide. Among
the most severe and notorious crop epidemics of downy mildew occurred on grapes in the …

Pseudoperonospora cubensis, the causal agent of cucurbit downy mildew, is an airborne,
obligate oomycete pathogen that re-emerged in 2004 and causes foliar disease and yield …

Plant-microbe interactions are both symbiotic and antagonistic, and the knowledge of both
these interactions is equally important for the progress of agricultural practice and produce …