In 2018, work began on the project: Alternative protection of interregional plant production in Pyrenees (PALVIP). A project whose main objective was study compounds biological origin for control pests and diseases vineyards fruit trees. Participants Chambre d'agriculture Pyrénées orientales, INCAVI, University Girona, Autonomous Barcelona, Perpinyà, companies Akinao Futureco Bioscience. INCAVI...

Rhizoctonia solani, Fusarium solani, F. oxysporum, and Macrophomina phaseolina were found to be associated with root rott and wilt symptoms of faba bean plants collected from different fieldes in New Valley governorate, Egypt. All the obtained isolates were able to attack faba bean plants (cv. Giza 40) causing damping-off and root rot/wilt diseases. R. solani isolates 2 and 5, F. solani isolate...

method for further utilization and to provide principles and strategies for drought-resistant vegetation restoration. Rainwater gathering has been applied in agricultural production in arid areas. Rainwater harvesting based on the collection and concentration of surface runoff for cultivation has been practiced in different parts of the world. For example, supplemental irrigation with water col...

In a recent article in TREE [1], Pearson and Callaway consider how indirect effects can lead to even host-specific biological control agents impacting on nontarget species. Although the authors raise some interesting points, we feel that the indirect effects that they explore might not be as generally applicable to biological control as they contend. The first indirect effect considered is ‘eco...

Background: Random induced mutation by gamma radiation is one of the genetic manipulation strategies to improve the antagonistic ability of biocontrol agents. Objectives: This study aimed to induce mutants with more sporulation, colonization rate leading to enhanced antagonistic ability (in vitro assay) comparing to wild type (WT) and the assessment of genetic differences (in situ evaluat...

Striga hermonthica (witchweed) is a parasitic weed that attacks and significantly reduces the yields of maize, sorghum, millet, and sugarcane throughout sub-Saharan Africa. Low cost management methods such as hand weeding, short crop rotations, trap cropping, or conventional biocontrol have not been effective. Likewise, Striga-tolerant or herbicide-resistant maize cultivars are higher yielding,...

background and purpose: fusarium species are avid producers of secondary toxic and carcinogenic metabolites such as fumonisin. contamination of food and feed products with fumonisin can be hazardous to the health of humans and animals and may lead to agricultural loss. accordingly, in this study, we aimed to evaluate the effects of candida parapsilosis on the growth and fumonisin production of ...

background: considering to the high distribution of cockroaches as urban pests, the efficacy of different formula­tions of metarhizium anisopliae strain iran 437c were assessed against the brown-banded cockroach, supella longi­palpa f. under laboratory and field conditions. methods: metarhizium anisopliae isolates were screened with immersing adults of the brown-banded cockroachs in aqueous sus...

background: aflatoxin contamination of food and feed stuff is a serious health problem and significant economic concerns. in the present study, the inhibitory effect of candida parapsilosis ip1698 on mycelial growth and aflatoxin production in aflatoxigenic strains of aspergillus species was investigated. methods: mycelial growth inhibitions of nine strains of aflatoxigenic and non-aflatoxigeni...