Fungal diseases in commercially important plants results in a significant reduction in both
quality and yield, often leading to the loss of an entire plant. In order to minimize the losses …

Potato crop is the fourth main food crop in the world and it will certainly feed a big part of the
global population in the next years. The economical outlets for this crop are great; however …

"… a number of chapters provide excellent summaries of the modern methods available for
studying fungal ecology, along with those more traditional methods that are still extremely …

Real-time PCR technologies open increasing opportunities to detect and study
phytopathogenic and antagonistic fungi. They combine the sensitivity of conventional PCR …

This review examines how real-time PCR can be used to determine copy number and
zygosity in transgenic plants. Distinguishing between plants that harbor one and two copies …

▪ Abstract Awareness of crop biosecurity and phytosanitation has been heightened since
9/11 and the unresolved anthrax releases in October 2001. Crops are highly vulnerable to …

Although a great deal of research on ornamental geophytes has been conducted since the
beginning of the 1990s, current information has not been comprehensively presented to …

A specific and sensitive PCR assay was developed for the detection and identification of
Rhizoctonia solani AG‐3, the main causal pathogen of stem canker and black scurf of …

This invaluable resource introduces the eleven types of organism that cause plant disease,
ranging from higher plants to viroids and describes examples of cash and staple crop …

Detection and quantification of genomic DNA from two ecologically different fungi, the plant
pathogen Fusarium solani f. sp. phaseoli and the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Glomus …