Article
Microbiology
Andrea Pacetti, Samuele Moretti, Catia Pinto, Stephane Compant, Sibylle Farine, Christophe Bertsch, Laura Mugnai
Summary: Trunk surgery has emerged as an effective method for reducing foliar symptoms associated with Esca complex diseases, with the mechanical removal of decayed wood leading to lower symptom re-expression. Different changes in microbiota post-surgery were observed based on wood types, with a notable decrease in Fomitiporia mediterranea abundance. The reduction of LS symptoms after trunk surgery could be attributed to a shift in microbiota affecting a shared biochemical pathway involved in symptom expression.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Adrienn Geiger, Zoltan Karacsony, Jozsef Geml, Kalman Zoltan Vaczy
Summary: This study examined the capability of Clonostachys rosea isolates as a biological control agent against grapevine trunk diseases pathogens. The results showed that C. rosea exhibited efficient antagonism against Eutypa lata and Phaeomoniella chlamydospora, and mycoparasitic activity against Botryosphaeria dothidea and Diaporthespp. The isolate 19B/1 with high antagonistic capabilities and efficient conidia production was selected for in planta confrontation tests, which resulted in a significant decrease in necrotic lesions caused by E. lata and P. chlamydospora. Based on these findings, C. rosea is considered a promising biological control agent against grapevine trunk diseases.
Article
Polymer Science
Nasko Nachev, Mariya Spasova, Petya Tsekova, Nevena Manolova, Iliya Rashkov, Mladen Naydenov
Summary: This study prepared polymer composites with chemical fungicides to potentially control esca, a grapevine disease caused by fungal pathogens. The materials showed good antifungal activity and could inhibit the growth of the pathogens.
Article
Agronomy
Laura Martin, Agustin Millan, Francisco Javier Castano, Florence Fontaine
Summary: This study examines the effect of chitosan hydrochloride on the interaction between grapevines and Phaeomoniella chlamydospora, a fungus that causes trunk diseases. The results show that chitosan application reduces vascular necrosis and pathogen recovery, while increasing root development and the flavonoid index. However, foliar application does not significantly improve the foliar symptoms of Esca.
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Laura Martin, Blanca Garcia-Garcia, Maria del Mar Alguacil
Summary: Esca is a complex and devastating Grapevine Trunk Disease caused by various fungal pathogens. Our study found that Phaeomoniella chlamydospora was the most abundant pathogen, and Aureobasidiaceae could be a potential biocontrol agent for Esca.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
(2022)
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Nasko Nachev, Mariya Spasova, Nevena Manolova, Iliya Rashkov, Mladen Naydenov
Summary: In recent years, innovative technologies such as polymer electrospinning, electrospraying, and centrifugal electrospinning have attracted special interest in the field of fibrous materials. These electrokinetic methods allow for the creation of micro- or nanofibrous materials with high specific surface area, high porosity, and various designs for diverse applications. These techniques can be used to obtain fibrous materials from both synthetic and natural biocompatible and biodegradable polymers, which are environmentally friendly. Additionally, they enable the incorporation of low-molecular substances with biological activity and biocontrol agents. This review highlights the recent progress in the development of electrospun fungicidal dressings and their potential in modern agriculture.
Article
Plant Sciences
Fedon-Ioannis Gkikas, Alexandros Tako, Danai Gkizi, Christina Lagogianni, Emmanouil A. Markakis, Sotirios E. Tjamos
Summary: This study evaluated the effectiveness of two microbial strains against Phaeomoniella chlamydospora in grapevines, showing their potential as biocontrol agents.
Article
Plant Sciences
Florian Moret, Gael Delorme, Gilles Clement, Claire Grosjean, Christelle Lemaitre-Guillier, Sophie Trouvelot, Marielle Adrian, Florence Fontaine
Summary: Esca is a complex grapevine trunk disease caused by wood-rotting fungi, with inconsistent foliar symptoms influenced by environmental, physiological, and genetic factors. Clonal and year-dependent metabolic responses to the disease were observed, showing different metabolite fingerprints and symptom expression between Chardonnay and Trousseau clones. Possible relationship with rainfall and higher susceptibility of certain clones were also identified.
PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM
(2021)
Article
Agronomy
Maria del Pilar Martinez-Diz, Emilia Diaz-Losada, Angela Diaz-Fernandez, Yolanda Bouzas-Cid, David Gramaje
Summary: This study compared the efficacy of fungicide and biological control agents in preventing infection of grapevine pruning wounds by two pathogens. Fungicide formulations were found to be more effective in controlling both pathogens during two growing seasons, with pyraclostrobin + boscalid being the most effective treatment. Trichoderma-based treatments did not reduce infection compared to the untreated control.
Article
Plant Sciences
Hernan Villatoro-Moreno, Lislie Solis-Montero, Rebeca Gonzalez-Gomez, Susana Maza-Villalobos, Juan Cisneros-Hernandez, Alfredo Castillo-Vera
Summary: This study provides evidence of the presence of NEFs on rambutan leaflets, which have a different external morphology and location from that observed in domatia, producing a sweet nectar used as food by a large community of ants.
BOTANICAL SCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Horticulture
Arwa A. AL-Huqail, Rattan Singh, Ivan Siric, Pankaj Kumar, Sami Abou Fayssal, Vinod Kumar, Rakesh Kumar Bachheti, Zeljko Andabaka, Madhumita Goala, Ebrahem M. Eid
Summary: This study aimed to assess the occurrence of eight heavy metals in lychee fruit samples collected from orchards in Uttarakhand, India, and found that lychee fruit from urban and industrial areas had higher concentrations of heavy metals. However, all lychee fruit samples had levels below the safe limits, indicating that consumption of lychee fruit was safe. The study highlights the importance of regular monitoring of heavy metal levels in lychee and implementing sustainable agricultural and environmental practices.
Review
Microbiology
Giovanni Del Frari, Helena Oliveira, Ricardo Boavida Ferreira
Summary: Esca is a major grapevine trunk disease that affects vineyards in the Northern hemisphere, with disputed etiology and epidemiology due to various internal and external symptoms and wood pathogens. While the role of pathogenic fungi in wood symptoms is well assessed, their impact on leaf symptoms remains uncertain. Recent studies focus on the microbiological aspect of esca, particularly the involvement of Hymenochaetales, in vineyards. The presence of Hymenochaetales and tracheomycotic fungi is believed to be a prerequisite for leaf symptoms, but further investigation is needed to understand their relationship with grapevines and other factors.
Article
Plant Sciences
Hernan Villatoro-Moreno, Lislie Solis-Montero, Rebeca Gonzalez-Gomez, Susana Maza-Villalobos, Juan Cisneros Hernandez, Alfredo Castillo-Vera
Summary: This study presents evidence of the presence of EFNs on rambutan leaflets, which have an external morphology and location different from domatia. These EFNs produce a sweet nectar used as food by a large community of ants.
BOTANICAL SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Materials Science, Textiles
Nasko Nachev, Mariya Spasova, Nevena Manolova, Iliya Rashkov, Mladen Naydenov
Summary: Suitable conditions for preparing nano- and microstructured materials from cellulose acetate and cellulose acetate/ZnO by electrospinning/electrospraying were identified. The materials were characterized and shown to possess superhydrophobic properties and antifungal activity against Phaeomoniella chlamydospora. Fibrous materials decorated with ZnO nanoparticles have potential applications in agriculture for plant protection.
FIBRES & TEXTILES IN EASTERN EUROPE
(2021)
Article
Microbiology
Ana Romeo-Olivan, Justine Chervin, Coralie Breton, Thierry Lagravere, Jean Dayde, Bernard Dumas, Alban Jacques
Summary: Species of the Trichoderma genus have antifungal abilities and are of interest in agriculture. This study investigates the transcriptomic response of grapevine trunk to Vintec(R), a biocontrol agent. The results show differential modulation of gene expression involved in hormonal signaling and secondary metabolism, indicating that Vintec(R) induces wood responses that counteract disease development.
FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Microbiology
Sina M. Adl, David Bass, Christopher E. Lane, Julius Lukes, Conrad L. Schoch, Alexey Smirnov, Sabine Agatha, Cedric Berney, Matthew W. Brown, Fabien Burki, Paco Cardenas, Ivan Cepicka, Lyudmila Chistyakova, Javier del Campo, Micah Dunthorn, Bente Edvardsen, Yana Eglit, Laure Guillou, Vladimir Hampl, Aaron A. Heiss, Mona Hoppenrath, Timothy Y. James, Anna Karnkowska, Sergey Karpov, Eunsoo Kim, Martin Kolisko, Alexander Kudryavtsev, Daniel J. G. Lahr, Enrique Lara, Line Le Gall, Denis H. Lynn, David G. Mann, Ramon Massana, Edward A. D. Mitchell, Christine Morrow, Jong Soo Park, Jan W. Pawlowski, Martha J. Powell, Daniel J. Richter, Sonja Rueckert, Lora Shadwick, Satoshi Shimano, Frederick W. Spiegel, Guifre Torruella, Noha Youssef, Vasily Zlatogursky, Qianqian Zhang
JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY
(2019)
Article
Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Wieland Meyer, Laszlo Irinyi, Minh Thuy Vi Hoang, Vincent Robert, Dea Garcia-Hermoso, Marie Desnos-Ollivier, Chompoonek Yurayart, Chi-Ching Tsang, Chun-Yi Lee, Patrick C. Y. Woo, Ivan Mikhailovich Pchelin, Silke Uhrlass, Pietro Nenoff, Ariya Chindamporn, Sharon Chen, Paul D. N. Hebert, Tania C. Sorrell, Catriona Halliday, Ian Arthur, Maria Luiza Moretti, Celia Maria de Almeida Soares, Mauro de Medeiros Muniz, Rosely Maria Zancope-Oliveira, Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz, Analy Salles de Azevedo Melo, Arnaldo L. Colombo, Angela Satie Nishikaku, Marijke Hendrickx, Dirk Stubbe, Anne-Cecile Normand, Renaud Piarroux, Stephane Ranque, Francoise Dromer, Michael Arabatzis, Aristea Velegraki, Gianluigi Cardinali, Laura Rosio Castanon, Maria Lucia Taylor, Conchita Toriello, Sybren de Hoog, Celia Pais, Wilhelm de Beer, Marieka Gryzenhout, Josep Guarro, Jose F. Cano-Lira, Barbara Robbertse, Conrad Schoch
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Eric W. Sayers, Richa Agarwala, Evan E. Bolton, J. Rodney Brister, Kathi Canese, Karen Clark, Ryan Connor, Nicolas Fiorini, Kathryn Funk, Timothy Hefferon, J. Bradley Holmes, Sunghwan Kim, Avi Kimchi, Paul A. Kitts, Stacy Lathrop, Zhiyong Lu, Thomas L. Madden, Aron Marchler-Bauer, Lon Phan, Valerie A. Schneider, Conrad L. Schoch, Kim D. Pruitt, James Ostell
NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
(2019)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Eric W. Sayers, Mark Cavanaugh, Karen Clark, James Ostell, Kim D. Pruitt, Ilene Karsch-Mizrachi
NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
(2020)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Eric W. Sayers, Mark Cavanaugh, Karen Clark, Kim D. Pruitt, Conrad L. Schoch, Stephen T. Sherry, Ilene Karsch-Mizrachi
Summary: GenBank® is a comprehensive public database containing over 2.1 billion nucleotide sequences from 478,000 formally described species. Recent updates include new resources for data from the SARS-CoV-2 virus, updated submission portal and wizards, new taxonomy queries, and simplified submission processes for EST and GSS sequences.
NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
(2021)
Review
Microbiology
Robert Lucking, M. Catherine Aime, Barbara Robbertse, Andrew N. Miller, Takayuki Aoki, Hiran A. Ariyawansa, Gianluigi Cardinali, Pedro W. Crous, Irina S. Druzhinina, David M. Geiser, David L. Hawksworth, Kevin D. Hyde, Laszlo Irinyi, Rajesh Jeewon, Peter R. Johnston, Paul M. Kirk, Elaine Malosso, Tom W. May, Wieland Meyer, Henrik R. Nilsson, Maarja Opik, Vincent Robert, Marc Stadler, Marco Thines, Duong Vu, Andrey M. Yurkov, Ning Zhang, Conrad L. Schoch
Summary: Identifying and naming microfungi, especially plant, animal, and human pathogens, remains a challenge. Molecular identification is increasingly used, and environmental metabarcoding is generating a vast amount of sequence data to document global fungal diversity. Solutions for naming taxa known only from sequences are proposed based on bacterial taxonomy methods.
NATURE MICROBIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Biochemical Research Methods
Alejandro A. Schaffer, Richard McVeigh, Barbara Robbertse, Conrad L. Schoch, Anjanette Johnston, Beverly A. Underwood, Ilene Karsch-Mizrachi, Eric P. Nawrocki
Summary: The DNA sequences encoding ribosomal RNA genes are commonly used as markers to identify species. Ribovore is a software package developed to analyze the quality, origin, and loci boundaries of rRNA sequences. It combines single-sequence and profile-based methods to improve GenBank processing and analysis of rRNA sequences.
BMC BIOINFORMATICS
(2021)
Correction
Microbiology
Robert Lucking, M. Catherine Aime, Barbara Robbertse, Andrew N. Miller, Takayuki Aoki, Hiran A. Ariyawansa, Gianluigi Cardinali, Pedro W. Crous, Irina S. Druzhinina, David M. Geiser, David L. Hawksworth, Kevin D. Hyde, Laszlo Irinyi, Rajesh Jeewon, Peter R. Johnston, Paul M. Kirk, Elaine Malosso, Tom W. May, Wieland Meyer, Henrik R. Nilsson, Maarja Opik, Vincent Robert, Marc Stadler, Marco Thines, Duong Vu, Andrey M. Yurkov, Ning Zhang, Conrad L. Schoch
NATURE MICROBIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Eric W. Sayers, Mark Cavanaugh, Karen Clark, Ki M. D. Pruitt, Conrad L. Schoch, Stephen T. Sherry, Ilene Karsch-Mizrachi
Summary: GenBank is a comprehensive public database with over 2.5 billion nucleotide sequences totaling 15.3 trillion base pairs for 504,000 formally described species. Recent updates include resources for SARS-CoV-2 virus data, upcoming changes to GI identifiers, and advice for providing contextual metadata in submissions.
NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Plant Sciences
Aaron H. Kennedy, Conrad L. Schoch, Glorimar Marrero, Vyacheslav Brover, Barbara Robbertse
Summary: Publicly available and validated DNA reference sequences are important for phylogeny estimation and identification of fungal pathogens. This study provides a dataset of verified and curated name-type strain-sequence associations for all available Colletotrichum species. The study demonstrates that several marker loci are suitable for phylogenetic inference and identification. Furthermore, similarity-based approaches to species identification often lead to misidentification and species-level identification is challenging for some samples.
Article
Mycology
M. Catherine Aime, Andrew N. Miller, Takayuki Aoki, Konstanze Bensch, Lei Cai, Pedro W. Crous, David L. Hawksworth, Kevin D. Hyde, Paul M. Kirk, Robert Luecking, Tom W. May, Elaine Malosso, Scott A. Redhead, Amy Y. Rossman, Marc Stadler, Marco Thines, Andrey M. Yurkov, Ning Zhang, Conrad L. Schoch
Summary: This paper provides an updated discussion of current publication requirements for describing new fungal species, as well as best practices and tools available to mycologists. It also includes model papers, checklists, and templates to help ensure effective and valid publication of new taxonomic names and to meet accepted standards for descriptions.
Review
Mathematical & Computational Biology
Conrad L. Schoch, Stacy Ciufo, Mikhail Domrachev, Carol L. Hotton, Sivakumar Kannan, Rogneda Khovanskaya, Detlef Leipe, Richard Mcveigh, Kathleen O'Neill, Barbara Robbertse, Shobha Sharma, Vladimir Soussov, John P. Sullivan, Lu Sun, Sean Turner, Ilene Karsch-Mizrachi
DATABASE-THE JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL DATABASES AND CURATION
(2020)
Article
Mycology
Robert Luecking, M. Catherine Aime, Barbara Robbertse, Andrew N. Miller, Hiran A. Ariyawansa, Takayuki Aoki, Gianluigi Cardinali, Pedro W. Crous, Irina S. Druzhinina, David M. Geiser, David L. Hawksworth, Kevin D. Hyde, Laszlo Irinyi, Rajesh Jeewon, Peter R. Johnston, Paul M. Kirk, Elaine Malosso, Tom W. May, Wieland Meyer, Maarja Opik, Vincent Robert, Marc Stadler, Marco Thines, Duong Vu, Andrey M. Yurkov, Ning Zhang, Conrad L. Schoch
Review
Plant Sciences
Patrik Inderbitzin, Barbara Robbertse, Conrad L. Schoch
PHYTOBIOMES JOURNAL
(2020)
Correction
Mathematical & Computational Biology
Shobha Sharma, Stacy Ciufo, Elena Starchenko, Dakshesh Darji, Larry Chlumsky, Ilene Karsch-Mizrachi, Conrad L. Schoch
DATABASE-THE JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL DATABASES AND CURATION
(2019)
