[HTML][HTML] Major biological control strategies for plant pathogens

MA Pandit, J Kumar, S Gulati, N Bhandari, P Mehta… - Pathogens, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
Food security has become a major concern worldwide in recent years due to ever increasing
population. Providing food for the growing billions without disturbing environmental balance …

Emerging microbial biocontrol strategies for plant pathogens

SFS Ab Rahman, E Singh, CMJ Pieterse, PM Schenk - Plant Science, 2018‏ - Elsevier
To address food security, agricultural yields must increase to match the growing human
population in the near future. There is now a strong push to develop low-input and more …

Cell-type-specific responses to fungal infection in plants revealed by single-cell transcriptomics

B Tang, L Feng, MT Hulin, P Ding, W Ma - Cell Host & Microbe, 2023‏ - cell.com
Pathogen infection is a dynamic process. Here, we employ single-cell transcriptomics to
investigate plant response heterogeneity. By generating an Arabidopsis thaliana leaf atlas …

The two-speed genomes of filamentous pathogens: waltz with plants

S Dong, S Raffaele, S Kamoun - Current opinion in genetics & …, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Fungi and oomycetes include deep and diverse lineages of eukaryotic plant pathogens. The
last 10 years have seen the sequencing of the genomes of a multitude of species of these so …

Impact of pesticide toxicity in aquatic environment

R Kumar, MS Sankhla, R Kumar… - Biointerface Research in …, 2021‏ - papers.ssrn.com
The intensified agricultural crop production for growing high yield varieties requires the
indiscriminate use of pesticides and fertilizers, which protect the crop from pests, thus helps …

The PTI to ETI Continuum in Phytophthora-Plant Interactions

ZA Naveed, X Wei, J Chen, H Mubeen… - Frontiers in plant …, 2020‏ - frontiersin.org
Phytophthora species are notorious pathogens of several economically important crop
plants. Several general elicitors, commonly referred to as Pathogen-Associated Molecular …

A paralogous decoy protects Phytophthora sojae apoplastic effector PsXEG1 from a host inhibitor

Z Ma, L Zhu, T Song, Y Wang, Q Zhang, Y **a, M Qiu… - Science, 2017‏ - science.org
The extracellular space (apoplast) of plant tissue represents a critical battleground between
plants and attacking microbes. Here we show that a pathogen-secreted apoplastic …

Metatranscriptomic census of active protists in soils

S Geisen, AT Tveit, IM Clark, A Richter… - The ISME …, 2015‏ - academic.oup.com
The high numbers and diversity of protists in soil systems have long been presumed, but
their true diversity and community composition have remained largely concealed. Traditional …

Introducing BASE: the Biomes of Australian Soil Environments soil microbial diversity database

A Bissett, A Fitzgerald, T Meintjes, PM Mele, F Reith… - GigaScience, 2016‏ - Springer
Background Microbial inhabitants of soils are important to ecosystem and planetary
functions, yet there are large gaps in our knowledge of their diversity and ecology. The …

Genome sequence of the necrotrophic plant pathogen Pythium ultimum reveals original pathogenicity mechanisms and effector repertoire

CA Lévesque, H Brouwer, L Cano, JP Hamilton, C Holt… - Genome biology, 2010‏ - Springer
Background Pythium ultimum is a ubiquitous oomycete plant pathogen responsible for a
variety of diseases on a broad range of crop and ornamental species. Results The P …