The fungal pathogen Phoma clematidina is used as a biological agent to control the invasive plant species Clematis vitalba in New Zealand. Research conducted on P. clematidina as a potential biocontrol agent against C. vitalba, led to the discovery of two perithecial-forming strains. To assess the diversity of P. clematidina and to clarify the teleomorph-anamorph relationship, phylogenetic anal...

Localized cell death, known as the hypersensitive response (HR), is an important defense mechanism for neutralizing phytopathogens. The hallmark of the HR is an oxidative burst produced by the host plant. We aimed to identify genes of the necrotrophic chickpea blight fungus Ascochyta rabiei that are involved in counteracting oxidative stress. A subtractive cDNA library was constructed after men...

Abstract — A new hybrid opto-electronic WDM architecture to extend electronic ADC performance is analyzed and simulated. Mode-locked optical pulses are amplitude modulated by a RF signal and optically demultiplexed into a number of parallel channels. The signal in each channel is converted to an electrical signal and then passed through a simple low-pass filter. The effect of low-pass filter re...

Ascochyta blight (caused by rabiei) is an important disease of chickpea. Mating type distribution, genetic diversity and population structure A. rabiei isolates from western Iran, using specific matting primers, ISSR SSR molecular markers. Two mating types were identified, with the 57% belonging to MAT1-1. Ten markers produced 78 polymorphic bands average polymorphism information content (PIC) ...