Ascochyta rabiei is the causal agent of blight of chickpea, an important food legume crop for human populations in Developing Countries. All reliably identified isolates of the fungus produce toxins in culture, known as the solanapyrones, of which solanapyrone A is the most frequently found and also the most toxic. The principal aim of the project was to determine the role of this toxin in the ...

The WRKY genes have been identified as important transcriptional modulators predominantly during the environmental stresses, but they also play critical role at various stages of plant life cycle. We report the identification of WRKY domain (WD)-encoding genes from galegoid clade legumes chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) and barrel medic (Medicago truncatula). In total, 78 and 98 WD-encoding genes ...

The population structure of Ascochyta rabiei (teleomorph: Didymella rabiei ) in Tunisia was estimated among five populations sampled from the main chickpea growing regions using simple sequence repeat markers (SSR) and a mating type ( MAT ) marker. Mating type 2 isolates ( MAT1-2 ) had reduced genetic and genotypic diversity relative to mating type 1 isolates ( MAT1-1 ). This result, coupled wi...

From 2017 to 2019, 51 A. rabiei isolates were isolated from 259 chickpea fields across IKR. On different media, 32 showed significant differences in morphological characteristics. The divided into six groups based on colony color, five mycelium color and three pycnidia color. CSMDA was the best media for mycelial growth. AS-28 significantly surpassed all other diameter despite type. growth vari...

Abstract Ascochyta blight caused by rabiei is a globally important chickpea disease. Host resistance to considered the most practical and effective means of control, but breeding has been hindered lack sources, time‐consuming, labour‐intensive traditional methods screen level genotypes. This paper evaluated progression pathogen infection disease reaction genotypes molecular methods. The 84 was ...