The study of the molecular basis of tree diseases is lately receiving a renewed attention, especially with the emerging perception that pathogens require specific pathogenicity and virulence factors to successfully colonize woody hosts. Pathosystems involving woody plants are notoriously difficult to study, although the use of model bacterial strains together with genetically homogeneous microp...

Acca sellowiana (Berg) Burret is a fruit species native to southern Brazil and Uruguay. Micropropagation techniques have been developed in order scale-up the mass propagation of new varieties. Micropropagated plants display anatomical, morphological physiological changes, which may negativelly affect their initial development acclimatization phase. The objective this work was compare morphometr...

Philodendron bipinnatifidum Schott ex Endl. is a popular ornamental plant that normally propagated by tissue culture methods. However, the growth and acclimatization of micropropagated plants are tarrying processes. Therefore, in present study we examined effect arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) Gigaspora albida G. marginata on success establishment, growth, development P. plantlets during pha...

The current nitrogen fertilization for sugarcane production in Guangxi, the major sugarcane-producing area in China, is very high. We aim to reduce nitrogen fertilization and improve sugarcane production in Guangxi with the help of indigenous sugarcane-associated nitrogen-fixing bacteria. We initially obtained 196 fast-growing bacterial isolates associated with the main sugarcane cultivar ROC22...

Six tetraploid Alstroemeria clones were micropropagated by rhizome multiplication, a system whereby the shoots were cut off from the rhizome and discarded. In a three-week subculture interval, the average rhizome multiplication rate for all genotypes was 2.3. In one selected genotype the discarded shoots were used to initiate another micropropagation system: the leafy explant micropropagation s...

Due to a mistake, the affiliation of Prof. Anna Maria Puglia was incorrectly reported in this article, published Italian Journal Agronomy 2022 (DOI: 10.4081/ija.2022.2006). The correct appears above. DOI: 10.4081/ija.2022.2150

The soil-borne pathogenic fungus Verticillium dahliae Kleb. causes economic losses in crops in temperate regions of the world and hence is the most studied species. Strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa Duch.) belongs to plant species susceptible to Verticillium dahliae, although the response to infection caused by this pathogen is varied and depends on the cultivar. Due to a lack of efficient method...