Priority effects - the impact of a species' arrival on subsequent community development - have been shown to influence species composition in many organisms. Whether priority effects among arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) structure fungal root communities is not well understood. Here, we investigated whether priority effects influence the success of two closely related AMF species (Rhizophagu...

Macrophomina phaseolina (Tassi) Goid. is a soil- and seed-borne pathogen that causes charcoal rot various rots blights of more than 500 crop species. Dry root (DRR) also called as which yield loss ranged from 25-48 per cent. The necrotroph infects wide range crops. It observed mycelium M. in cotyledons, plumule radicle, the naturally infected seeds mungbean cowpea. disease symptoms are clearly ...

Abstract Background The increasing demand of food causes an excessive exploitation agricultural lands, often inducing phenomena soil sickness accompanied by the development soilborne diseases. use residual biomasses together with inorganic fertilizers can be considered a good practice for controlling inoculum density phytopathogens since conditioners release nitrogen, polyphenols and fatty acid...

A study of saprobic fungi occurring on the fynbos of the Western Cape Province of South Africa yielded four unknown Anthostomella species. A. proteae from Protea nitida, A. cynaroides from P. cynaroides, A. leucospermi from Leucospermum oleifolium, and A. brabeji from Brabejum stellatifolium are described as new. New records for South Africa include A. conorum from Leucadendron sp., Protea magn...

Drosophila suzukii populations remain low in the UK. To date, there have been no reports of widespread damage. Previous research demonstrated that various species of entomopathogenic fungi and nematodes could potentially suppress D. suzukii population development under laboratory trials. However, none of the given species was concluded to be specifically efficient in suppressing D. suzukii. The...