Background Grapevine is a woody, perennial plant of high economic importance worldwide.
Like other plants, it lives in close association with large numbers of microorganisms …

Microorganisms have a long track record as important sources of novel bioactive natural
products, particularly in the field of drug discovery. While microbes have been shown to …

Species in the Botryosphaeriaceae have a cosmopolitan distribution, and occur on a wide
range of annual and perennial hosts including grapevines. To date, morphological and …

The genus Diaporthe comprises pathogenic, endophytic and saprobic species with both
temperate and tropical distributions. Cryptic diversification, phenotypic plasticity and …

Esca disease, which attacks the wood of grapevine, has become increasingly devastating
during the past three decades and represents today a major concern in all wine-producing …

This study is unique as it compares traditional and high-resolution culture-independent
approaches using the same set of samples to study the saprotrophic fungi on Vitis vinifera …

Grapevine trunk diseases (GTDs) are major biotic factors reducing yields and limiting
vineyard economic life spans. Fungi in the GTD complex cause a range of symptoms in host …

This study investigates the diversity of fungal endophytes associated with several varieties of
grapevines with differing modes of cultivation in the Madrid region (central Spain). Our goal …

We studied the distribution of fungal endophytes of grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) plants in a
subalpine area of northern Italy, where viticulture is of high economic relevance. We …

Esca is a disease complex belonging to the grapevine trunk diseases cluster. It comprises
five syndromes, three main fungal pathogenic agents and several symptoms, both internal …