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...

Abstract Background Microbes benefit plants by increasing nutrient availability, producing plant growth hormones, and protecting against pathogens. However, it is largely unknown how change root microbial communities. Results In this study, we used a multi-cycle selection system infection the soilborne fungal pathogen Rhizoctonia solani AG8 (hereafter AG8) to examine impact rhizosphere bacteria...

In biological control studies of plant-parasitic nematodes in field soil improved methods are needed for reducing or eliminating specific soil inhabiting microorganisms. Microwave heating of soil decreases soilborne fungi and bacteria, but not Pasteuria spp. Bacterial and fungal colony forming units were reduced to nondetectable levels in microwaved heated field soft (650 watts) at 5.2% moistur...

Bacillus cereus AR156 was originally isolated from the forest soil of Zhenjiang, a city in China. To shed new light on the molecular mechanisms underlying the biological control of soilborne pathogens, the whole genome of this strain was sequenced. Here, we report the draft genome sequence of this strain, consisting of a single circularized contig measuring 5.66 Mb, with an average GC content o...

Introduction Since the seventies, many horticultural crops heavily relied on methyl bromide (MB) to control soilborne pests, diseases and weeds in Italy. As one of the major consumer of MB, after its inclusion among substances that deplete the ozone layer, Italy was forced to invest many resources in the development and implementation of alternative strategies for soil disinfestation. Such acti...

Verticillium nonalfalfae, a soilborne vascular phytopathogenic fungus, causes wilt disease in several crop species. Of great concern are outbreaks of highly aggressive V. nonalfalfae strains, which cause a devastating wilt disease in European hops. We report here the genome sequence and annotation of V. nonalfalfae strain T2, providing genomic information that will allow better understanding of...

Abstract Pathogenic fungi are a leading cause of crop disease and primarily spread through microscopic, durable spores adapted differentially for both persistence dispersal via soil, animals, water, and/or the atmosphere. Computational Earth system models air pollution have been used to simulate atmospheric spore transport aerial-dispersal-adapted (airborne) rust diseases, but importance soil-d...