The necrotrophic fungus Ascochyta rabiei causes Ascochyta blight (AB) disease in chickpea.
A. rabiei infects all aerial parts of the plant, which results in severe yield loss. At present, AB …

Plants counter disease with an array of responses to styme pathogen ingress. In contrast to
this cacophony, plant pathogens orchestrate a finely tuned repertoire of virulence …

Background Brown rots are important fungal diseases of stone and pome fruits. They are
caused by several Monilinia species but M. fructicola, M. laxa and M. fructigena are the most …

Phytotoxins, secondary metabolites toxic to plants and produced by fungi, are believed to
play an important role in disease development by targeting host cellular machineries and/or …

Fungal phytotoxins can be defined as secondary metabolites toxic to host plants and are
believed to be involved in the symptoms developed of a number of plant diseases by …

Didymella macrostoma P2 was isolated from rapeseed (Brassica napus), and it is an
endophyte of rapeseed and an antagonist of three rapeseed pathogens, Botrytis cinerea …

Reproducibility, or a lack thereof, is an increasingly important topic across many research
fields. A key aspect of reproducibility is accurate reporting of both experiments and the …

Solanapyrones are metabolites bearing a 3, 4-dehydrodecalin moiety isolated from cultures
of different fungi that are associated with plant diseases. Research on solanapyrones …

Lentinula edodes (Shiitake) is one of the most heavily cultivated mushrooms in the world
with proven antioxidant and antibacterial properties, among others. Evidence indicates that …

Classic metabolomic methods have proven to be very useful to study functional biology and
variation in the chemical composition of different tissues. However, they do not provide any …