The plant microbiomes play important role in plant growth promotion and soil fertility for
sustainable agriculture. Plant and soil are valuable natural resource harbouring hotspots of …

Plants have developed a complex defense system against diverse pests and pathogens.
Once pathogens overcome mechanical barriers to infection, plant receptors initiate signaling …

Fusarium head blight (FHB), or scab, for its devastating nature to wheat production and food
security, has stimulated worldwide attention. Multidisciplinary efforts have been made to fight …

The phyllosphere referred to the total aerial plant surfaces (above-ground portions), as
habitat for microorganisms. Microorganisms establish compositionally complex communities …

Trichothecenes are sesquiterpenoid mycotoxins produced by fungi from the order
Hypocreales, including members of the Fusarium genus that infect cereal grain crops …

Wheat diseases present a constant and evolving threat to food security. We have little
understanding as to how increased atmospheric carbon dioxide levels will affect wheat …

Subtilisin‐like proteases (or subtilases) are a very diverse family of serine peptidases
present in many organisms, but mostly in plants. With a broad spectrum of biological …

Infection stages of charcoal rot fungus Macrophomina phaseolina in sesame revealed for
the first time a transition from biotrophy via BNS (biotrophy-to-necrotrophy switch) to …

The ascomycete fungal pathogen Fusarium graminearum causes the globally important
Fusarium head blight (FHB) disease on cereal hosts, such as wheat and barley. In addition …

Background Fusarium head blight (FHB) of wheat in North America is caused mostly by the
fungal pathogen Fusarium graminearum (Fg). Upon exposure to Fg, wheat initiates a series …