abstract some agricultural fields of razevi and north khorasan provinces were sampled for identification and resistance to metalaxyl of pythium ultimum species isolates. isolation was done between years of 2007 to 2009. van der plaats- niterink key to species of pythium and specific its region of rdna were used for morphological and molecular identification respectively. micrometric characteris...

Composts are known for their suppressive properties toward many different seed- and root-infecting pathogens and diseases. Although disease and pathogen suppression induced by composts is believed to be mediated by microbial activities, the nature of the microbial species and processes responsible for suppressiveness remain unknown. We demonstrated previously that seed-colonizing microbial cons...

ABSTRACT Compost tea is being used increasingly in agricultural production to control plant diseases. However, there has been limited investigation relating disease control efficacy to various compost tea production methods, particularly compost tea produced with active aeration and additives to increase microbial population densities in compost tea. Aerated compost tea (ACT) and nonaerated com...

The soilborne pathogens Rhizoctonia solani, Pythium ultimum, and Meloidogyne incognita can cause severe economic losses to fieldand greenhouse-grown cucumber. A collection of bacterial isolates and isolates GL3 and GL21 of Trichoderma virens were screened for suppression of diseases caused by these pathogens. T. virens isolates GL3 and GL21 provided the most effective suppression of damping-off...

1Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain, 17551, United Arab Emirates; 2Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, University of Ain Shams, Cairo, 11566, Egypt; 3School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Division of Science and Engineering, Murdoch University, Murdoch, W.A., 6150, Australia (e-mail: [email protected]); 4Soil Science an...

To help learn how phytopathogens feed from their hosts, genes for nutrient transporters from the hemibiotrophic potato and tomato pest Phytophthora infestans were annotated. This identified 453 genes from 19 families. Comparisons with a necrotrophic oomycete, Pythium ultimum var. ultimum, and a hemibiotrophic fungus, Magnaporthe oryzae, revealed diversity in the size of some families although a...