The invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has caused a revolution in molecular
biology, giving access to a method of amplifying deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) molecules …

Brassicaceae plants cover a large number of species with great economic and nutritional
importance around the world. The production of Brassica spp. is limited due to …

The genus Armillaria includes at least 38 species, most of which are facultative necrotrophs
(Gregory and Rishbeth 1991). Pathogenicity of these organisms can result in Armillaria root …

Ornamental plant production constitutes an important sector of the horticultural industry
worldwide and fungal infections, that dramatically affect the aesthetic quality of plants, can …

Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, causal agent of white mould, is the most destructive and widely
distributed soilborne pathogen of common bean during the autumn–winter season in B razil …

Sclerotinia stem rot of spring oilseed rape (B rassica napus) is caused by S clerotinia
sclerotiorum. In S weden, the disease leads to severe crop damage that varies from year to …

Methods for the diagnostics and detection of plant pathogens need to be quick, simple,
reliable, and cost effective. In the present study, inter-priming binding sites (iPBS) …

In this study, we have introduced a facile room-temperature strategy for irreversibly sealing
polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) elastomers to various thermoplastics using (3-aminopropyl) …

White mold, caused by the fungal pathogen Sclerotinia sclerotiorum (Lib.) de Bary, is a
significant biotic stress impacting horticultural and field crops worldwide. This disease …

Symptoms of clover rot caused by Sclerotinia trifoliorum or S. sclerotiorum are identical,
making differentiation and identification of the causal species difficult and time consuming …