Theobroma cacao, the source of chocolate, is affected by destructive diseases wherever it is
grown. Some diseases are endemic; however, as cacao was disseminated from the Amazon …

Viruses that infect fungi are known as mycoviruses and are characterized by the lack of an
extracellular phase. In recent years, the advances on nucleic acids sequencing technologies …

The Basidiomycota constitutes a major phylum of the kingdom Fungi and is second in
species numbers to the Ascomycota. The present work provides an overview of all validly …

Significant scientific advances to elucidate the Moniliophthora perniciosa pathosystem have
been achieved in recent years, but the molecular biology of this pathogen-host interaction is …

Bamboo witches' broom disease (WBD), caused by Aciculosporium take Miyake, devastates
bamboo forests. Understanding the genome and pathogenic factors of pathogen is crucial …

The genus Ceratocystis includes many phytopathogenic fungi that affect different plant
species. One of these is Ceratocystis cacaofunesta, which is pathogenic to the cocoa tree …

The basidiomycete Moniliophthora roreri causes frosty pod rot of cacao (Theobroma cacao)
in the western hemisphere. Moniliophthora roreri is considered asexual and haploid …

Background Witches' broom disease (WBD) of cacao (Theobroma cacao L.), caused by
Moniliophthora perniciosa, is the most important limiting factor for the cacao production in …

Introducción. Las especies de Moniliophthora spp. son endémicas de Sudamérica e
infectan los cultivos de cacao de América. Objetivo. El objetivo del estudio fue analizar la …

The fungus Moniliophthora perniciosa secretes protein effectors that manipulate the
physiology of the host plant, but few effectors of this fungus have had their functions …