Plant diseases caused by Phytophthora species will remain an ever increasing threat to
agriculture and natural ecosystems. Phytophthora literally means plant destroyer, a name …

High‐throughput identification technologies provide efficient tools for understanding the
ecology and functioning of microorganisms. Yet, these methods have been only rarely used …

Phytophthora, with 203 species, is a genus of high importance in agriculture worldwide.
Here, we present the online resource “IDphy”, developed to facilitate the correct …

Because less than one-third of clinically relevant fusaria can be accurately identified to
species level using phenotypic data (ie, morphological species recognition), we constructed …

We constructed a two-locus database, comprising partial translation elongation factor (EF-
1α) gene sequences and nearly full-length sequences of the nuclear ribosomal intergenic …

The most recent phylogenetic analysis of the genus Phytophthora was completed in 2008
(Blair et al., 2008) and utilized 8.1 kb of sequence data from seven nuclear loci. Given the …

We constructed several multilocus DNA sequence datasets to assess the phylogenetic
diversity of insecticolous fusaria, especially focusing on those housed at the Agricultural …

Plant pathogenic fungi are the causal agents of the most detrimental diseases in plants,
including economically important crops, provoking considerable yield losses worldwide …

Root rot diseases remain a major global threat to the productivity of agricultural crops. They
are usually caused by more than one type of pathogen and are thus often referred to as a …

Background Fungi secrete various proteins that have diverse functions. Prediction of
secretory proteins using only one program is unsatisfactory. To enhance prediction …