Vinte amostras de espécies de fungos, agentes da helmintosporiose em cereais, foram obtidas de diferentes regiões geográficas, sendo nove constituídas de Bipolaris oryzae, isoladas de cultura do arroz (Oryza sativa), sete de B. sorokiniana coletadas de trigo (Triticum aestivum), duas de B. maydis e duas de Exserohilum turcicum provenientes de milho (Zea mays). As amostras foram analisadas atrav...

A web-based model was used to simulate the impact of aeration on population growth of the lesser grain borer, Rhyzopertha dominica (F.), and the rice weevil, Sitophilus oryzae (L.), in stored rough rice, Oryza sativa L., at Beaumont, TX. Simulations were run for each of 10 yr with 1 August as the start date; 31 December as the end date; beginning populations of 2.5 adults per metric ton (1000 k...

In this issue of Applied and Environmental Microbiology (AEM), we publish a paper by Fenghuan Yang, Fang Tian, Huamin Chen, William Hutchins, Ching-Hong Yang, and Chenyang He from the State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee, reporting on ...

Plant disease management is key to sustainable production of staple food crops. Calcium (Ca2+) signal and phytohormones play critical roles in regulating plant defense responses against pathogens. The Ca2+ signals are sensed, decoded transduced by calmodulin other -binding proteins, followed interaction with modulation activities target proteins such as calmodulin-binding (CBPs). Members the Ar...

Rice, as a widely and intensively cultivated crop, should be a target for parasite host shifts and a source for shifts to co-occurring weeds. Magnaporthe oryzae, of the M. grisea species complex, is the most important fungal pathogen of rice, with a high degree of host specificity. On the basis of 10 loci from six of its seven linkage groups, 37 multilocus haplotypes among 497 isolates of M. or...