Sclerotinia stem rot caused by Sclerotinia sclerotiorum affects canola production worldwide. Emerging evidence suggests that long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) play important roles in the regulation of gene expression in plants, in response to both abiotic and biotic stress. So far, identification of lncRNAs has been limited to a few model plant species, and their roles in mediating responses to bi...

In sunflower, molecular markers for simple traits as, e.g., fertility restoration, high oleic acid content, herbicide tolerance or resistances to Plasmopara halstedii, Puccinia helianthi, or Orobanche cumana have been successfully used in marker-assisted breeding programs for years. However, agronomically important complex quantitative traits like yield, heterosis, drought tolerance, oil conten...

Peanut is vulnerable to a range of foliar diseases such as spotted wilt caused by Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV), early (Cercospora arachidicola) and late (Cercosporidium personatum) leaf spots, southern stem rot (Sclerotium rolfsii), and sclerotinia blight (Sclerotinia minor). In this study, we report the generation of 17,376 peanut expressed sequence tags (ESTs) from leaf tissues of a peanu...

sclerotinia stem rot (ssr), caused by sclerotinia sclerotiorum, is believed as the most important disease of canola (brassica napus) in iran. temporal analysis of the disease epidemics was carried out by evaluating ssr in 80 fields in four locations of: gorgan, aliabad, kalaleh and gonbad in golestan province during 2006 and 2007. scouting of the fields to record disease incidence (i) and disea...

Submerged culture conditions for polygalacturonase production by Sclerotinia sclerotiorum (MR5) were optimized by Taguchi orthogonal array experimental design methodology. This approach facilitates the study of interaction of a large number of variables spanned by factors and their settings with a small number of experiments leading to considerable saving in time and cost for the process optimi...