Detection and diagnosis of plant viruses has included serological laboratory tests since the
1960s. Relatively little work was done on serological detection of plant pathogenic bacteria …

Black foot disease of grapevine is a relatively new, and as yet poorly known disease
affecting vines in various countries where grapevines are cultivated. The causal organisms …

Decline symptoms in young vineyards have dramatically increased all over the world since
the early 1990s, when the wine industry entered a period of rapid expansion that was …

This book focuses on the taxonomy and pathology of Cylindrocladium and its allies. Aspects
relating to baiting and isolation, pathogenicity, diseases and symptoms, and disease control …

The importance of automatic seedling transplantation in plant-growing companies cannot be
overstated. The key step of intelligent transplanting is the effective and precise detection of …

Cylindrocarpon species are known to be a component of the pathogen/pest complex that
incites apple replant disease. In South Africa, no information is available on apple …

To gain insight into the nature of disease incidences and microbial community shift, the
dynamics of soil microbe population induced by continuous cucumber cropping was studied …

An assay was developed that can identify unknown isolates of Pythium or Phytophthora
species in a single hybridization. This reverse dot blot system is based on arrays of species …

The mycobionts of Piceirhiza bicolorata, a distinct ectomycorrhizal morphotype of conifers
and hardwoods, have been identified by internal transcribed spacer 1 (ITS1) nuclear …

The soilborne fungus Cylindrocarpon destructans (teleomorph: Neonectria radicicola)
causes root rot in a wide range of plant hosts; the disease is of particular concern in ginseng …