Citrus production is declining worldwide due to several biotic and abiotic factors. The diseases caused by Phytophthora spp. present major economic risks since they are soil-borne spread quickly if environmental conditions favorable, or irrigation poorly managed. species in all citrus-producing areas around the world causing significant losses crop yield affecting tree health. Bark infection, d...

The high incidence of various soil-borne diseases in the monoculture field of peanut is a major production constraint in the red soil regions of southern China. The peanut root exudates are generally thought to play an important role in regulating soil-borne pathogens. The responses of the soil-borne pathogens, Fusarium oxysporum and F. solani to the peanut root exudates were studied using one ...

Predicted increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) are widely anticipated to increase biomass accumulation by accelerating rates of photosynthesis in many plant taxa. Little, however, is known about how soil-borne plant antagonists might modify the effects of elevated CO2 (eCO2), with root-feeding insects being particularly understudied. Root damage by insects often reduces rates of photos...

Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) is an important oilseed crop and the economic production of groundnut constrained by soil-borne diseases. Stem rot, caused necrotrophic fungus Sclerotium rolfsii, was most common disease in groundnut. A roving survey conducted major growing areas Telangana during kharif 2019 rabi 2019-20 to collect a preliminary data incidence level pattern prevalence stem rot di...

Food-borne diseases constitute a major public health problem. Due to increased morbidity and mortality leading to time loss in the work place and reduced productivity, food-borne diseases across the world cost billions of dollars annually1. The Clostridium group of bacteria is commonly found in soil everywhere in the world, and some of its species live harmlessly in our intestines. Clostridium ...

Bacterial endophytes are ubiquitous to virtually all terrestrial plants. With the increasing appreciation of studies that unravel the mutualistic interactions between plant and microbes, we increasingly value the beneficial functions of endophytes that improve plant growth and development. However, still little is known on the source of established endophytes as well as on how plants select spe...