Potential biocontrol efficiency of Trichoderma species against oomycete pathogens by Yinglong Liu, Pengbo He, Pengfei He, Shahzad Munir, Ayesha Ahmed, Yixin Wu, Yuling Yang, Junping Lu, Jiansong Wang, Jizhou Yang, Xinlong Pan, Yangyang Tian, Yueqiu He

“…In this regard, 86 isolates of Trichoderma spp. were assessed against Phytophthora nicotianae, P. capsici, Pythium vexans, P. ultimum, and P. dissotocum through dual culture assay. …”
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A plant cell death-inducing protein from litchi interacts with Peronophythora litchii pectate lyase and enhances plant resistance by Wen Li, Peng Li, Yizhen Deng, Junjian Situ, Zhuoyuan He, Wenzhe Zhou, Minhui Li, Pinggen Xi, Xiangxiu Liang, Guanghui Kong, Zide Jiang

“…However, LcPIP1, a plant immune regulator secreted by litchi, binds to PlPeL1/PlPeL1-like, and attenuates PlPeL1/PlPeL1-like induced plant susceptibility to Phytophthora capsici. LcPIP1 also induces cell death and various immune responses in Nicotiana benthamiana. …”
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Biocontrol potential of Bacillus velezensis EM-1 associated with suppressive rhizosphere soil microbes against tobacco bacterial wilt by Xiaona Sui, Xiaobin Han, Jianmin Cao, Yiqiang Li, Yuan Yuan, Jianyu Gou, Yanfen Zheng, Chen Meng, Chengsheng Zhang

“…In addition, strain EM-1 also showed a strong inhibitory effect on other phytopathogens, such as Alternaria alternata and Phytophthora nicotianae, indicating a wide antagonistic spectrum. …”
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A New Oomycete Metabarcoding Method Using the rps10 Gene by Zachary S. L. Foster, Felipe E. Albornoz, Valerie J. Fieland, Meredith M. Larsen, F. Andrew Jones, Brett M. Tyler, Hai D. T. Nguyen, Treena I. Burgess, Carolyn Riddell, Hermann Voglmayr, Frank N. Martin, Niklaus J. Grünwald

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LysM protein BdLM1 of Botryosphaeria dothidea plays an important role in full virulence and inhibits plant immunity by binding chitin and protecting hyphae from hydrolysis by He Zhang, Sheng-hui Wen, Pei-hang Li, Liu-yi Lu, Xu Yang, Chuan-jie Zhang, Li-yun Guo, Dongli Wang, Xiao-qiong Zhu, Xiao-qiong Zhu

“…BdLM1 suppressed programmed cell death caused by the mouse protein BAX through Agrobacterium-mediated transient expression in Nicotiana benthamiana, reduced H2O2 accumulation and callose deposition, downregulated resistance gene expression, and promoted Phytophthora nicotianae infection in N. benthamiana. …”
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Induction of Isochromanones by Co-Cultivation of the Marine Fungus <i>Cosmospora</i> sp. and the Phytopathogen <i>Magnaporthe</i> <i>oryzae</i> by Ernest Oppong-Danquah, Martina Blümel, Silvia Scarpato, Alfonso Mangoni, Deniz Tasdemir

“…Bioactivity assays revealed antimicrobial activity of compounds <b>2</b> and <b>3</b> against the phytopathogens <i>M. oryzae</i> and <i>Phytophthora infestans</i>, while pseudoanguillosporin A (<b>6</b>) showed the broadest and strongest anti-phytopathogenic activity against <i>Pseudomonas syringae</i>, <i>Xanthomonas campestris</i>, <i>M. oryzae</i> and <i>P. infestans</i>. …”
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Characterization of the microbiota dynamics associated with Moniliophthora roreri, causal agent of cocoa frosty pod rot disease, reveals new viral species by Brayan Maudiel Diaz Reyes, Paula Luize Camargos Fonseca, Paula Luize Camargos Fonseca, Neander Marcel Heming, Lucas Barbosa de Amorim Conceição, Katiucia Ticila de Souza Nascimento, Karina Peres Gramacho, Enrique Arevalo-Gardini, Enrique Arevalo-Gardini, Carlos Priminho Pirovani, Eric Roberto Guimarães Rocha Aguiar

“…IntroductionTheobroma cacao, the cocoa tree, is a target for pathogens, such as fungi from the genera Phytophthora, Moniliophthora, Colletotrichum, Ceratocystis, among others. …”
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Finding RB/Rpi-blb1/Rpi-sto1-like sequences in conventionally bred potato varieties by O. Y. Antonova, N. S. Klimenko, Z. Z. Evdokimova, L. I. Kostina, T. A. Gavrilenko

“…Among them, the late blight caused by the Phytophthora infestans oomycete is one of the most destructive potato diseases both in Russia and worldwide. …”
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Characterization of Soybean Events with Enhanced Expression of the Microtubule-Associated Protein 65-1 (MAP65-1) by Panya Kim, Samira Mahboob, Hanh T. Nguyen, Samuel Eastman, Olivia Fiala, Matthew Sousek, Roch E. Gaussoin, Jae L. Brungardt, Tamra A. Jackson-Ziems, Rebecca Roston, James R. Alfano, Tom Elmo Clemente, Ming Guo

“…Both AtMAP65-1 and GmMAP65-1 transgenic soybeans are more resistant to challenges by the soybean bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. glycinea and the oomycete pathogen Phytophthora sojae, but not the soybean cyst nematode, Heterodera glycines. …”
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Genome-Wide Identification, and In-Silico Expression Analysis of YABBY Gene Family in Response to Biotic and Abiotic Stresses in Potato (<i>Solanum tuberosum</i>) by Hafiz Sabah-Ud-Din Mazhar, Muhammad Shafiq, Haider Ali, Muhammad Ashfaq, Alia Anwar, Javaria Tabassum, Qurban Ali, Ghulam Jilani, Muhammad Awais, Ravi Sahu, Muhammad Arshad Javed

“…Moreover, during the attack of <i>Phytophthora infestans</i> on a potato plant <i>StYAB3</i>, <i>StYAB5</i>, <i>StYAB6</i>, and <i>StYAB7</i> showed high expression. …”
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Detection of oak decline using radiative transfer modelling and machine learning from multispectral and thermal RPAS imagery by A. Hornero, P.J. Zarco-Tejada, I. Marengo, N. Faria, R. Hernández-Clemente

“…In this work, we evaluated the use of airborne multispectral and thermal imagery coupled with a 3-D radiative transfer modelling and machine learning approach for detecting Phytophthora-infected holm oak and cork oak trees. The field study included 2299 trees classified into disease severity classes with a gradient in levels of disease incidence located in Portugal (Ourique and Avis) and Spain (Huelva and Alcuéscar). …”
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Pan-genome analysis identifies intersecting roles for Pseudomonas specialized metabolites in potato pathogen inhibition by Alba Pacheco-Moreno, Francesca L Stefanato, Jonathan J Ford, Christine Trippel, Simon Uszkoreit, Laura Ferrafiat, Lucia Grenga, Ruth Dickens, Nathan Kelly, Alexander DH Kingdon, Liana Ambrosetti, Sergey A Nepogodiev, Kim C Findlay, Jitender Cheema, Martin Trick, Govind Chandra, Graham Tomalin, Jacob G Malone, Andrew W Truman

“…Here, we genetically and phenotypically characterize the Pseudomonas fluorescens population in a commercial potato field, where we identify strong correlations between specialized metabolite biosynthesis and antagonism of the potato pathogens Streptomyces scabies and Phytophthora infestans. Genetic and chemical analyses identified hydrogen cyanide and cyclic lipopeptides as key specialized metabolites associated with S. scabies inhibition, which was supported by in planta biocontrol experiments. …”
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Developing the plant disease model to manage the cocoa black pod disease by Ling, Albert Sheng Chang

“…The measurements for disease severity was made daily for a duration of six days after inoculated with Phytophthora palmivora. The results of study has identified Gompertz model as the best fitted nonlinear model with the smallest values of the Akaike Information Criterion test and the Bayesian Information Criterion test. …”
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Detection of Fungi and Oomycetes by Volatiles Using E-Nose and SPME-GC/MS Platforms by Jérémie Loulier, François Lefort, Marcin Stocki, Monika Asztemborska, Rafał Szmigielski, Krzysztof Siwek, Tomasz Grzywacz, Tom Hsiang, Sławomir Ślusarski, Tomasz Oszako, Marcin Klisz, Rafał Tarakowski, Justyna Anna Nowakowska

“…To this end, cultures of eight fungi (<i>Armillaria gallica</i>, <i>Armillaria ostoyae</i>, <i>Fusarium avenaceum</i>, <i>Fusarium culmorum</i>, <i>Fusarium oxysporum</i>, <i>Fusarium poae</i>, <i>Rhizoctonia solani</i>, <i>Trichoderma asperellum</i>) and four oomycetes (<i>Phytophthora cactorum</i>, <i>P. cinnamomi</i>, <i>P. plurivora</i>, <i>P. ramorum</i>) were tested with the e-nose system and investigated by means of SPME-GC/MS. …”
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Valorization of <i>Quercus suber</i> L. Bark as a Source of Phytochemicals with Antimicrobial Activity against Apple Tree Diseases by Eva Sánchez-Hernández, Vicente González-García, José Casanova-Gascón, Juan J. Barriuso-Vargas, Joaquín Balduque-Gil, Belén Lorenzo-Vidal, Jesús Martín-Gil, Pablo Martín-Ramos

“…<i>Monilinia fructigena</i> and <i>M. laxa</i> (brown rot), <i>Neofussicoccum parvum</i> (dieback), and <i>Phytophthora cactorum</i> (collar and root rot), and two bacteria, viz. …”
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Neogrisphenol A, a Potential Ovarian Cancer Inhibitor from a New Record Fungus <i>Neohelicosporium griseum</i> by Li-Juan Zhang, Ming-Fei Yang, Jian Ma, Xing-Juan Xiao, Xiao-Yan Ma, De-Ge Zheng, Mei-Yan Han, Ming-Lei Xia, Ruvishika S. Jayawardena, Ausana Mapook, Yuan-Pin Xiao, Ji-Chuan Kang, Yong-Zhong Lu

“…In addition, compound <b>5</b> showed antifungal activity against <i>Sclerotinia sclerotiorum</i> and <i>Phytophthora nicotianae var. nicotianae</i>, with respective IC₅₀ values of 88.14 ± 2.21 µg/mL and 52.36 ± 1.38 µg/mL. …”
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Construction of Eicosatetraenoic Acid Producing Cell Factory by Genetic Engineering of <i>Mucor circinelloides</i> by Chen Wu, Junhuan Yang, Shaoqi Li, Wenyue Shi, Futing Xue, Qing Liu, Tahira Naz, Hassan Mohamed, Yuanda Song

“…Therefore, in this study, delta-17 desaturase (<i>PpD17</i> and <i>PaD17</i>) genes from <i>Phytophthora parasitica</i> and <i>Pythium aphanidermatum</i>, respectively, were introduced into <i>M. circinelloides</i> to construct an ETA-producing cell factory. …”
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Discovery of novel piperidine-containing thymol derivatives as potent antifungal agents for crop protection by Yang, Xiaoqun, Jiang, Shichun, Zhang, Meng, Li, Tingting, Jin, Zhichao, Wu, Xingxing, Chi, Robin Yonggui

“…The bioassay results underscored the remarkable in vitro antifungal activity of compounds 5m and 5t against Phytophthora capsici (P. capsici), with EC50 values of 8.420 and 8.414 μg/mL, respectively. …”
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Pathotypes of Pseudoperonospora Cubensis (Berk. et Curt.) Rostow, Causal Agent of Downy Mildew and Induced Defense Responses in the Host by Salati, Mansour

“…However, no PCR products were obtained for the new designed sets when the primers were tested against different isolates of fungi as negative control including Fusarium solani, Phomopsis langicola, Lasiodiplodia theobromae, Fusarium oxysporum, Pythium sp., Phytophthora sp., Pyricularia oryzae, Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus niger. …”
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Phytochemical compound determination of Entada rheedei Spreng and its antifungal activity on selected soilborne fungal phytopathogens by Che Mohd Ramli, Neni Kartini

“…The gained crude extracts were then screened via in vitro assays for their antifungal activity, using well diffusion method, against five selected soilborne fungal pathogens Rhizoctonia solani, Fusarium commune, Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense (FOC), Pythium ultimum and Phytophthora palmivora. The petroleum ether and chloroform extracts of stems, seeds and leaves of E. rheedei failed to inhibit the growth of all tested soilborne fungal phytopathogens. …”
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