Browsing by Department "Plant Pathology and Microbiology"
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(2012-11-27)Xylella fastidiosa subspecies fastidiosa is the causative agent of Pierce’s disease of grape and has caused significant crop stress and loss in vineyards throughout Texas. While multiple techniques are available to identify ...
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(2015-06-22)Sheath blight (ShB) caused by Rhizoctonia solani AG1-IA, narrow brown leaf spot (NBLS) caused by Cercospora janseana and fertility are among the most important factors limiting rice production in the U.S. Greenhouse ...
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(2011-02-22)The soil-borne, rhizosphere-competent, filamentous fungus Trichoderma virens is a well-known biocontrol agent able to control pathogenic fungi through the production of antibiotics, the induction of systemic resistance ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-11-15)The interactions between Medicago truncatula and Phytophthora medicaginis were examined using skl, a mutant blocked in ethylene perception, and a range of wild accessions of this plant species. P. medicaginis infection ...
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(2012-07-16)Plant lipoxygenases (LOX) are non-heme iron containing dioxygenases that catalyze the hydroperoxidation of polyunsaturated fatty acids resulting in the synthesis of a large number of functionally diverse oxylipins. Although ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)The effect of fruit removal from cantaloupe was studied under field conditions in a soil naturally infested with Monosporascus cannonballus. Fruit removal resulted in greater sugar accumulation in the cantaloupe roots ...
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(2022-07-21)Landscapes vary across space and through time, impacting many biological processes. Landscape ecology provides an investigative framework through which landscapes themselves can be characterized, and complex organismal ...
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(2009-06-02)Abamectin is a blend of B1a and B1b avermectins that is being used as a seed treatment to control plant-parasitic nematodes on cotton. Data on the toxicity of abamectin and its effectiveness as a seed treatment to control ...
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(2017-02-21)ungi, which dominate many ecosystems as major decomposers and pathogens, generally colonize through the formation of long, tubular cells called hyphae. Understanding hyphal growth has been of interest to cell biologists ...
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(2019-04-03)Water is a major limiting resource in agriculture worldwide, restricting crop yields in approximately 70 percent of arable farmlands. My goal was to alleviate drought stress in grasses using plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria ...
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(2023-01-02)This research aims to address challenges in lignin renewable materials and advance the understanding of the lignin structure-properties relationship. Lignin, the second most abundant biopolymer on Earth, is a major byproduct ...
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Environmental and Developmental Aspects of Sorghum Downy Mildew with Particular Emphasis on Oospores (2016-04-15)Sorghum downy mildew (SDM), caused by Peronosclerospora sorghi, remains one of the primary constraints to sorghum production worldwide. Due to the fastidious nature of the pathogen, in particular the soilborne oospores, ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)Sorghum ergot, caused by Claviceps africana Frederickson, Mantle & de Milliano, is a disease that affects non-fertilized ovaries in sorghum male-sterile plants and infects hybrids if there is pollen sterility at flowering ...
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(2022-12-09)Vinca plants such as Cora XDR are known to have high levels of resistance to Phytophthora aerial blight, and the results of this work show variable susceptibility to Phytophthora nicotianae in varieties and cultivars of ...
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(2021-12-06)Infection of seed with two major ear rot pathogens of maize, Fusarium verticillioides and Aspergillus flavus, lead to high yield losses and detrimental health effects to humans and animals through the production of mycotoxins, ...
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(2019-05-15)Terpenes and terpenoids have a vast array of applications for human use as fuels, specialty chemicals, nutraceuticals, pharmaceuticals, and food and fragrance additives. In plants, terpene production is limited and highly ...
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(2013-08-06)The carboxylate biofuels platform (CBP) involves the conversion of cellulosic biomass into carboxylate salts by a mixed microbial community. Chemical engineering approaches to convert these salts to a variety of fuels ...
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(2023-05-04)Previously our lab described a 21-member gene family of the rice blast fungus Pyricularia oryzae that were named host-adapted genes (HAGs). Most AVR/effector genes of P. oryzae are either unique or have few paralogs. The ...
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(2011-10-21)The Pezizomycotina, commonly known as the filamentous fungi, are a diverse group of organisms that have a major impact on human life. The filamentous fungi diverged from a common ancestor approximately 200 – 700 million ...
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(2013-02-04)Fusarium verticillioides is a major pathogen of a broad range of field crops. Seeds infections lead to contamination by hazardous mycotoxins, such as fumonisin. Fumonisin is known to cause developmental defects in humans ...