Plants are susceptible to phytopathogens, including bacteria, fungi, and viruses, which
cause colossal financial shortfalls (pre-and post-harvest) and threaten global food safety. To …

The aerial surface of higher plants is covered by a hydrophobic layer of cuticular waxes to
protect plant tissues against enormous environmental challenges including the infection of …

The plant secretome is usually considered in the frame of proteomics, aiming at
characterizing extracellular proteins, their biological roles and the mechanisms accounting …

Rhizoctonia solani is an important phytopathogenic fungus with a wide host range and
worldwide distribution. The anastomosis group AG1 IA of R. solani has been identified as …

Pathogen infections seriously threaten plant health and global crop production. Epigenetic
processes such as DNA methylation, histone post-translational modifications, chromatin …

Plant diseases caused by pathogenic bacteria and fungi are major threats to both wild plants
and crops. To counteract these threats, plants have evolved various defense mechanisms …

Background In recent years, major advance in molecular biology and genomic technologies
have led to an exponential growth in biological information. As the deluge of genomic …

Fungal diseases pose a major threat to ornamental plants, with an increasing percentage of
pathogen-driven host losses. In ornamental plants, management of the majority of fungal …

The growth of the global population poses a huge challenge to food security. The
continuous application of crop protection products has many negative effects including …

Plant diseases generally tend to be more serious under conditions of high temperature and
high humidity (HTHH) than under ambient temperature, but plant immunity against pathogen …