Abstract Ascochyta blight (caused by Didymella rabiei ) is one of the most important diseases affecting chickpea production and productivity. The distribution, incidence severity disease, association agronomic practices environmental factors on intensity disease mainly remained undermined. Chickpea field surveys were conducted in two main growing regions central Ethiopia during 2020 2021 croppi...

The response of pea (Pisum sativum) genotypes to ascochyta blight disease and the effect of disease severity on yield components were evaluated in a 4-year trial under field conditions. Peas were inoculated with Ascochyta pinodes, the anamorph of Mycosphaerella pinodes, or with Phoma pinodella separately and with a mixture of both species. Mean infection ratings of all inoculation treatments we...

Ascochyta blight, an infection caused by a complex of Ascochyta pinodes, Ascochyta pinodella, Ascochyta pisi, and/or Phoma koolunga, is a destructive disease in many field peas (Pisum sativum L.)-growing regions, and it causes significant losses in grain yield. To understand the composition of fungi associated with this disease in Zhejiang Province, China, a total of 65 single-pycnidiospore fun...

In response to the exogenous application of elicitors and attempted invasion by pathogens, plants exhibit a wide range of defense reactions. To understand the defense mechanisms at the level of gene activation and deactivation, differential screenings were performed to isolate cDNA clones which are differentially expressed in pathogen-inoculated resistant chickpea plants and elicitor-treated ce...

H. Ozkilinc, O. Frenkel, S. Abbo, R. Eshed, A. Sherman, D. Shtienberg*, R. Ophir and C. Can Department of Biology, University of Gaziantep, 27310, Turkey; The Levi Eshkol School of Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot 76100; Genomics Department, The Volcani Center, Agricultural Research Organization, Bet-Dagan, 50250; and Department of Plant Pathology and Weed Research, the ...

The anamorphic pycnidial fungus Ascochyta pisi is one member of a species complex that causes Ascochyta blight of pea, a potentially devastating disease. The teleomorphic state of this fungus was induced under laboratory conditions. Using morphological and molecular characters, we placed the teleomorph within the genus Didymella as D. pisi and describe a heterothallic mating system using a PCR-...