Plant diseases cause significant decreases in yield and quality of crops and consequently
pose a very substantial threat to food security. In the continuous search for environmentally …

Sugar beet is a crop with high sucrose content, known for sugar production and recently
being considered as an emerging raw material for bioethanol production. This crop is also …

Key message This study establishes possibility of combinatorial silencing of more than one
functional gene for their efficacy against root-knot nematode, M. incognita. Abstract Root …

Root-knot nematode, Meloidogyne incognita, is a devastating sedentary endoparasite that
causes considerable damage to agricultural crops worldwide. Modern approaches targeting …

Simple Summary Rice root-knot nematode is a plant-parasitic nematode that infects the
roots of rice plants. It is also known as Meloidogyne graminicola, and is one of the most …

Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is one of the major staple food crops of the world. The productivity of
rice is considerably affected by the root-knot nematode, Meloidogyne graminicola. Modern …

Throughout the world Trichoderma spp. are majorly used as biocontrol agents for managing
the economically important plant-parasitic nematodes. We employed a novel strategy to …

BACKGROUND Occurrence of multiple biotic stresses on crop plants result in drastic yield
losses which may have severe impact on the food security. It is a challenge to design …

Key message The study demonstrates the successful management of Meloidogyne
incognita in eggplant using Mi-flp14 RNA interference, showing reduced nematode …

Key message This study demonstrates multi-gene silencing approach for simultaneous
silencing of several functional genes through a fusion gene strategy for protecting plants …