To reduce the impact of chemical pesticides on the environment, there are relevant efforts to
enhance the possibility of controlling plant diseases using environmentally friendly …

Late blight caused by Phytophthora infestans is an economically important disease of potato
and tomato worldwide. In Canada, an increase in late blight incidence and severity …

Long-term site-specific studies describing changes in the phenotypic variability of
Phytophthora infestans populations allow quantitative predictions of pathogen spread and …

To better understand the evolution of virulence we are interested in identifying the genetic
basis of this trait in pathogenic fungi and in developing tools for the rapid characterization of …

Invasive, exotic plant pathogens pose a major threat to native and agricultural ecosystems.
Phytophthora× cambivora is an invasive, destructive pathogen of forest and fruit trees …

There is limited understanding of the genetic variability in Phytophthora infestans in the
major potato cultivation region of north-western Russia, where potato is grown primarily by …

Obligately biotrophic plant pathogens pose challenges in population genetic studies due to
their genomic complexities and elaborate culturing requirements with limited biomass. Hop …

Knowledge of a pathogen's genetic variability and population structure is of great
importance to effective disease management. In this study, 193 isolates of Phytophthora …

Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lactucae race 4 causes vascular necrosis and wilting of lettuce.
First observed in Belgium in 2015, the lack of disease resistance in commercial cultivars …

The oomycete Phytophthora infestans is an important plant pathogen on potato and tomato
crops. We examined the genetic structure of extant 20th and 21st century US lineages of P …