Plants maintain cellular proteostasis during different phases of growth and development
despite a barrage of biotic and abiotic stressors in an ever-changing environment. This …

Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) downy mildew, caused by the obligate oomycete pathogen
Pseudoperonospora cubensis (Berk. and Curt.) Rostov., is the primary factor limiting …

High temperature is one of the major abiotic stresses that affect cucumber growth and
development. Heat stress often leads to metabolic malfunction, dehydration, wilting and …

Sweet basil (Ocimum basilicum) is an annual herb crop grown in polyethylene‐covered
structures in Israel. It is Israel's leading herb crop, grown in warm regions of the country …

Limitations in our understanding about the mechanisms that underlie source‐sink assimilate
partitioning are increasingly becoming a major hurdle for crop yield enhancement via …

Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) is an important crop distributed in many countries. Downy
mildew (DM) caused by the obligate oomycete Pseudoperonospora cubensis is especially …

Abiotic stresses adversely affect the growth and productivity and elicit a series of
morphological, physiological, biochemical, and molecular changes in plants. Drought …

Blast disease is one of the major rice diseases, and causes nearly 30% annual yield loss
worldwide. Resistance genes that have been cloned, however, are effective only against …

High temperature-caused heat stress has become a main limiting factor for production of
cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) in summer. Heat stress not only leads to early senescence of …

Pseudoperonospora cubensis and Phytophthora capsici are plant pathogenic oomycetes
that are severe threats to cucurbit cultivation because of the their global distribution, their …