UV-C Light as a Tool to Manage Grape Powdery Mildew

Image Recognition of Grape Downy Mildew and Grape Powdery Mildew Based on Support Vector Machine

In order to realize automatic disease diagnosis and provide related information for disease prediction and control timely and accurately, the identification and diagnosis of grape downy mildew and grape powdery mildew was conducted based on image recognition technologies. The method based on K_means clustering algorithm was used to implement unsupervised segmentation of the disease images. Fift...

Powdery mildew of soybeans.

Phoma glomerata as a mycoparasite of powdery mildew.

Ampelomyces and Phoma species are frequently confused with each other. Isolates previously attributed to the genus Ampelomyces were shown to be Phoma isolates through studies of their morphology and life cycle and ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacer region 1 sequence analysis. Phoma glomerata can colonize and suppress development of powdery mildew on oak and may have utility as a mycopara...

Effects of Powdery Mildew of Grape on Carbon Assimilation Mechanisms of Potted ‘Chardonnay’ Grapevines

Potted grapevines (Vitis vinifera L. ‘Chardonnay’) were inoculated with conidial suspensions of the grapevine pathogen causing powdery mildew of grape (GPM) (Uncinula necator (Schw.) Burr.). Leaves of inoculated and noninoculated vines were studied for the effects of varying light (PAR) and CO2 concentrations on factors affecting carbon assimilation. GPM reduced carboxylation effi ciency (k), n...

Specific Isolation of RNA from the Grape Powdery Mildew Pathogen Erysiphe necator, an Epiphytic, Obligate Parasite

RNA expression profiling of obligately parasitic plant microbes is hampered by the requisite interaction of host and parasite. This can be especially problematic in the case of powdery mildews, such as Erysiphe necator (syn. Uncinula necator), which grow superficially but tightly adhere to the plant epidermis. We developed and refined a simple and efficient technique in which nail polish was us...