Abstract Background Brown spot disease is one of the most destructive foliar diseases rice. Biological control this considered more environmentally safe, but biological agents have limited availability. The fungus Trichoderma can be used as a biocontrol agent for various plant diseases, including brown spots. Indigenous species from West Timor were evaluated in study to reveal their effectivene...

fusarium head blight (fhb) caused by fusarium graminearum is a serious disease of wheat (triticum aestivum l.), through which grain quality losses are induced by fungal trichotecene mycotoxins such as deoxynivalenol (don). a class of plasma membrane localized abc transporter proteins related to the yeast pdr5 (pleiotropic drug resistance5) efflux pump seems to be responsible for partial resista...

in order to develop molecular markers based on expressed sequence tag (est) linked to fusarium head blight (fhb) resistance genes in wheat, the biological function of 8660 ests deposited in data bank were studied following which 260 ests with identified biological function were selected. in total, 62 primer combinations were designed based on conserved and non conserved sequences. linkage and q...

A total of 33 potato ( Solanum tuberosum L.) cultivars and breeding clones imported from the United States two local (Yunshu 401 Cooperation 88, CK) were planted evaluated. To determine their suitability for processing into French fries at five locations (e1-e5) in Yunnan Province, China, we developed a comprehensive evaluation system using analytical hierarchy process (AHP). Eleven indicators ...

Gray leaf spot [GLS, causal agent Cercospora zeae-maydis (Tehon and E. Y. Daniels)] is an important fungal disease of maize in the U.S. and worldwide. The IBM population, an advanced intercross recombinant inbred line population derived from a cross between the maize lines Mo17 (resistant) and B73 (susceptible), was evaluated in three environments (Andrews, NC in 2005, 2006, and 2007) for resis...