Plant leaves are inhabited by a diverse group of microorganisms that are important contributors to optimal growth. Biotic and abiotic effects on plant growth are usually studied in controlled settings examining response to variation in single factors and in field settings with large numbers of variables. Multi-factor experiments with combinations of stresses bridge this gap, increasing our unde...

Résumé Research Application Summary Introgressing resistance to Turcicum leaf blight and mapping of associated quantitative trait loci in sorghum Mayada Mamoun Beshir1, 2, Okori, P.1, Abdelbagi Ali, M.2 & Gibson, P.1, 3 1Department of Crop Science, Makerere University, P .O. Box 7062, Kampala, Uganda 2Agricultural Research Corporation, P. O. Box 126, Wad Medani, Sudan 3Department of Plants, Soi...

Potato late blight is one the most important crop diseases worldwide. Even though potato has been studied for many years, the potato disease late blight still has a vast negative effect on the potato production [1], [2], [3]. Late blight is caused by the pathogen Phytophthora infestans (P. infestans), which initiates infection through leaves. However, the biological activities during different ...

Two sesame cultivars (Sesamum indicum L.) were evaluated using various 3 different sowing dates (20 th June, 10 th and 30 th July) and four nitrogen levels (0, 40, 80 and 120 kg N ha -1 ) at the New Developmental Farm of The University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Pakistan during summer 2012. The experiment was laid out in randomized complete block design (RCBD) with split plot arrangement using f...

ABSTRACT The effect of elevated atmospheric CO(2) concentration on rice blast and sheath blight disease severity was studied in the field in northern Japan for 3 years. With free-air CO(2) enrichment (FACE), rice plants were grown in ambient and elevated ( approximately 200 to 280 mumol mol(-1) above ambient) CO(2) concentrations, and were artificially inoculated with consist of Magnaporthe ory...

Leaf blight caused by Stemphylium solani is a major fungal disease of garlic (Allium sativum) in central China where it has caused severe crop losses during the winter growing season from the end of autumn to the middle of spring. Epidemiology, cultivar resistance, and chemical controls were investigated during the 2006 to 2008 growing seasons in Dangyang County to improve disease control metho...

Cotton leaf diseases have occurred all over the world including India. They have significant impact on quality and yield of cotton. This paper select bacterial leaf blight, myrothecium and grey mildew as study object. The testing samples of the images are gathered from CICR Nagpur. The image enhancement techniques used include histogram equalization, decorelation stretching, linear contrast str...

abstract bacterial blight of rice, causes by xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae , is one of the most devastating disease of rice after blast disease. during the spring and summer of 2005-2006 different paddy fields in guilan province (roodsar, langrud, lahijan, rasht, anzali, fooman, soomeesara and roodbar) were surveyed and samples were collected from rices showing blight and yellowing in leaves. t...

In this study, sulfone derivatives containing 1,3,4-oxadiazole moieties indicated good antibacterial activities against rice bacterial leaf blight caused by the pathogen Xanthomonas oryzaepv. pv. oryzae (Xoo). In particular, 2-(methylsulfonyl)-5-(4-fluorobenzyl)-1,3,4-oxadiazole revealed the best antibacterial activity against Xoo, with a half-maximal effective concentration (EC50) of 9.89 μg/m...

Fungal spores are continuously deposited on the leaf surfaces by wind impaction, sedimentation and rain wash-out from the atmosphere and splash-dispersal. They reside and act as asymptomatic mutualists, benign commensals or latent pathogens. A slight imbalance in this relation can lead to pathogenic phase of the fungi, resulting in a variety of symptoms on leaves viz. discoloration, blight, soo...