Phytophthora is a microbial genus that includes species causing many diseases (Erwin and Ribeiro, 1996). These species infect and kill nearly all species of deciduous fruit trees. Phytophthora crown and root rots, which are caused mainly by P. cactorum, P. megasperma, P. citrophthora, P. cinnamomi, P. cambivora, P. syringae and P. cryptogea (Sarejanni, 1935; Kouyeas, 1971; Kouyeas, 1977; Flores...

Onion (Allium cepa L.) bacterial diseases can cause catastrophic crop losses. Chemical and biological control products are not curative have mixed or limited efficacy at preventing onion diseases. Cultural management strategies, such as appropriate irrigation nitrogen (N) practices, reduce the risk for infection disease progression. This review synthesizes available literature on cultural strat...

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Pathogenic effects of 6 Fusarium spp., viz., F. equiseti, F. longipes, F. scirpi (Section Gibbosum), F. oxysporum (Section Elegans), F. pallidoroseum (Section Arthrosporiella) and F. solani (Section Martiella) were studied on sunflower plants. Symptoms produced by Fusarium spp., were root-, collar-, stemand seedling rots, damping-off, stunting, wilting, tip burning and reduction in growth. Wilt...

black meristematic fungi are cosmopolitan and able to adapt to extreme fluctuations of ultraviolet radiation, temperature, and moisture and grow in exposed habitats such as stone surfaces. in a survey on fungi associated with fruit rots, leaf spots, canker, gummosis, dieback and trunk diseases of grapevine and walnut trees in kurdistan province (iran), some black meristematic fungal isolates re...