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 …

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

Brassicaceae plants cover a large number of species with great economic and nutritional
importance around the world. The production of Brassica spp. is limited due to …

The causal agents of Alternaria brown spot of tangerines and tangerine hybrids, Alternaria
leaf spot of rough lemon and Alternaria black rot of citrus historically have been referred to …

Significant substratum damage can occur when plasticized PVC (pPVC) is colonized by
microorganisms. We investigated microbial colonization of pPVC in an in situ, longitudinal …

Correct morphological identification of Alternaria is important and demands a combination of
modern standardised methods and up-to-date literature. The production of secondary …

Crop straw is often incorporated into soil, but how agricultural practices affect straw
decomposition and the involved biological mechanisms are not fully understood. We …

The Alternaria and Ulocladium species reported from humans are studied taxonomically
using rDNA internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequence data. The ITS variability within the …

Alternaria alternata, A. radicina and A. dauci are important seed-borne fungi on carrot, with
the first two species having a high toxigenic potential, for which a specific and sensitive …

Alternaria brassicae is an important seedborne pathogenic fungus responsible for the black
spot disease of crucifers. Sanitary control of commercial seed is necessary to limit the …