Biological control has received increasing interest in recent decades as one of the
alternatives to chemical pesticides in the field of plant disease control, especially after the …

Seed potato degeneration, the reduction in yield or quality caused by an accumulation of
pathogens and pests in planting material due to successive cycles of vegetative …

The Solanaceae family is generally known to be the third most economically important plant
taxon, but also harbors a host of plant pathogens. Diseases like wilt and fruit rot of …

Most previous studies on soil microbial communities have been focused on species
abundance and diversity, but not the interactions among species. In present study, the …

Plant health is essential for food security, and constitutes a major predictor to safe and
sustainable food systems. Over 40% of the global crops' productions are lost to pests …

Potato dry rot disease caused by Fusarium species is a major threat to global potato
production. The soil and seed-borne diseases influence the crop stand by inhibiting the …

The ability of a rhizosphere-derived microbial product (composed of a consortium of a strain
of Bacillus subtilis and a strain of Trichoderma harzianum) to suppress common scab …

The genome of Streptomyces scabies, the predominant causal agent of potato common
scab, encodes a potential cutinase, the protein Sub1, which was previously shown to be …

This work was aimed to evaluate the efficacy of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and the
endophytic fungal strain Epicoccum nigrum ASU11 (Epi) to control potato blackleg caused …

Background Previous studies have focused on linking soil community structure, diversity, or
specific taxa to disturbances. Relatively little attention has been directed to crop monoculture …