Complete and balanced nutrition has always been the first line of plant defense due to the
direct involvement of mineral elements in plant protection. Mineral elements affect plant …

Looking forward includes looking back every now and then. In 2007, David Weller looked
back at 30 years of biocontrol of soil-borne pathogens by Pseudomonas and signified that …

Soil-borne plant diseases are increasingly causing devastating losses in agricultural
production. The development of a more refined model for disease prediction can aid in …

▪ Abstract Agricultural soils suppressive to soilborne plant pathogens occur worldwide, and
for several of these soils the biological basis of suppressiveness has been described. Two …

Plant diseases caused by soil-borne pathogens have been recognized as a critical factor
worldwide for plant health and productivity overall in intensive cropping systems …

Soil microbiota plays a key role in suppressing soil-borne plant pathogens improving the
natural soil suppressiveness. Microbiome disturbance triggers specific perturbation to …

It has been reported that plant growth media amended with composted bark suppress
Fusarium wilts whereas media amended with composted municipal sludge aggravate this …

Canonical plant stress biology research has focused mainly on the dynamic regulation of
internal genetic pathways in stress responses. Increasingly more studies suggest that plant …

"… 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 …

Disease-suppressive soils are soils in which specific soil-borne plant pathogens cause only
limited disease although the pathogen and susceptible host plants are both present …