phytoplasmal big bud is one of the important diseases of tomato (lycopersicon esculentum) in the world. the disease has been reported from iranian provinces of bushehr, isfahan, fars, khorasane razavi and ardabil. during a summer surrvey in 2010, symptoms of big bud disease was observed in tomato fields of dorood area in lorestan province. characteristic symptoms of the disease were small thick...

Plants are subject to diseases caused by pathogens, many of which are transmitted by herbivorous arthropod vectors. To understand plant disease dynamics, we studied a minimum hybrid model combining consumer-resource (herbivore-plant) and susceptible-infected models, in which the disease is transmitted bi-directionally between the consumer and the resource from the infected to susceptible classe...

The effect of biodiversity on the ability of parasites to infect their host and cause disease (i.e. disease risk) is a major question in pathology, which is central to understand the emergence of infectious diseases, and to develop strategies for their management. Two hypotheses, which can be considered as extremes of a continuum, relate biodiversity to disease risk: One states that biodiversit...

Auxin is a pivotal plant hormone that regulates many aspects of plant growth and development. Auxin signaling is also known to promote plant disease caused by plant pathogens. However, the mechanism by which this hormone confers susceptibility to pathogens is not well understood. Here, we present evidence that fungal and bacterial plant pathogens hijack the host auxin metabolism in Arabidopsis ...

Fungal disease has important effects in natural and agricultural plant populations; however, we are still uncovering factors that influence severity in these systems. Understanding these factors is especially important because it has been predicted that climate change will increase fungal disease widely as a result of changes in precipitation. Here, we investigate the role of water availability...

background & aim: ethnoveterinary medicinal plants of iran are not scientifically well known, but they have been using traditionally especially in rural areas.this study was carried out to identify the folk herbal veterinary medicines (fhvm) of zilberchay watershed in east azerbaijan province in northwest of iran. experimental: fhvm plants were identified by collecting plant species from th...

Phytohormones signal and combine to maintain the physiological equilibrium in the plant. Pathogens enhance host susceptibility by modulating the hormonal balance of the plant cell. Unlike other plant hormones, the detailed role of cytokinin in plant immunity remains to be fully elucidated. Here, extensive data mining, including of pathogenicity factors, host regulatory proteins, enzymes of horm...