Fruit losses during postharvest storage and handling due to pathogen infections are one of
the major problems in the global food chain supply. The application of chemical fungicides …

Strawberry, a small fruit crop of great importance throughout the world, has been considered
a model plant system for Rosaceae, and is susceptible to a large variety of phytopathogenic …

Abstract Background and Aims Various biochars added to soil have been shown to improve
plant performance. Moreover, a wood biochar was found to induce tomato and pepper plant …

Plants have several l-ascorbic acid (AsA) biosynthetic pathways, but the contribution of each
one to the synthesis of AsA varyies between different species, organs, and developmental …

Abstract Knowledge of the molecular basis of plant resistance to pathogens in species other
than Arabidopsis is limited. The function of Fa WRKY1, the first WRKY gene isolated from …

Strawberry (Fragaria spp) is an emerging model for the development of basic genomics and
recombinant DNA studies among rosaceous crops. Functional genomic and molecular …

Microscopic investigations were conducted into the interaction of Colletotrichum acutatum
on white and red strawberry (Fragaria× ananassa) fruit surfaces. The results showed that …

UV-C treatment applied during postharvest to control fruit decay has been shown to interfere
with several aspects of fruit quality. In this study, strawberry fruit (Fragaria× ananassa Duch …

Background Cultivated strawberry is a hybrid octoploid species (Fragaria xananassa
Duchesne ex. Rozier) whose fruit is highly appreciated due to its organoleptic properties …

Understanding the nature of pathogen host interaction may help improve strawberry
(Fragaria× ananassa) cultivars. Plant resistance to pathogenic agents usually operates …