A 50 years old lady presented with fever, productive cough and occasional haemoptysis for two weeks. She also had generalized weakness and shortness of breath for same duration. She had chronic bronchitis with recurrent cough and expectoration for last 20 years. She was non-diabetic. She had no past history of tuberculosis. Her respiratory rate was 24 / min. BP was 118/78 mmHg. Pulse 110/min, r...

Botrytis cinerea is a widespread necrotrophic plant pathogen that causes diseases on >1000 species, including vegetables and ornamental greenhouse crops. On cannabis ( Cannabis sativ L.), the responsible for causing “bud rot”, major disease affecting inflorescences (compound flowers), as well seedling damping-off leaf blight under certain conditions. During cultivation, can destroy rapidly o...

Sleeping blight was observed on soybean plants grown in Yanggu, Suwon and Geumsan from 2005 to 2011. Symptoms developed on stems and pods of affected soybean plants. Five fungal isolates were obtained from the diseased plants and identified as Septogloeum sojae based on their morphological, cultural and molecular characteristics. Pathogenicity of the fungus was confirmed on soybean plants by ar...

Dog rose (Rosa canina) has been using as a rootstock for ornamental roses also it is one of the medicinal plants. It can be propagated under in vitro conditions. After removing chilling requirement of buds, axillary wood buds of dog rose were cut in three nodal positions (lower, middle and terminal) on the stem and then explants after decontamination, cultured on Murashige and Skoog medium (MS ...

A newly recognized, late-season leaf disease of Quercus macrocarpa (bur oak) has become increasingly severe across Iowa and in neighboring states since the 1990s. Vein necrosis and leaf death may occur over the whole crown or only on the lower branches. Symptoms typically intensify year-to-year in individual trees, and there appears to be substantial variation in susceptibility. Distinctive con...

AIMS This study was performed to identify bacterial strains isolated simultaneously with Pantoea species from Eucalyptus trees showing symptoms of bacterial blight and dieback in Uruguay. METHODS AND RESULTS Several molecular techniques including 16S rRNA and rpoB gene sequencing and DNA-DNA hybridization were used to characterize the gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, slime-producing ba...

Red raspberry, Rubus idaeus, is known to be infested by at least six species of eriophyid mites. Among them, the raspberry leaf and bud mite, Phyllocoptes gracilis, (Figure 1, A–B) only vector a virus, namely blotch virus (RLBV) (Dong et al. 2016; McGavin 2012; Tan 2022). Raspberry C), disorder displaying as chlorosis, distortion patchy necrosis, yellowing thinning on lateral branches, has been...