Biological control of soil-borne pathogens comprises the decrease of inoculum or of the disease producing activity of a pathogen through one or more mechanisms. Interest in biological control of… (More)
Plants possess a range of active defense apparatuses that can be actively expressed in response to biotic stresses (pathogens and parasites) of various scales (ranging from microscopic viruses to… (More)
Charcoal rot disease, caused by the fungus Macrophomina phaseolina, leads to significant yield losses of soybean crops. One strategy to control charcoal rot is the use of antagonistic,… (More)
Increasing evidence shows that nitric oxide (NO), a typical signaling molecule plays important role in development of plant and in bacteria-plant interaction. In the present study, we tested the… (More)
At present, Artemisia annua L. is the major source of artemisinin production. To control the outbreaks of malaria, artemisinin combination therapies (ACTs) are recommended, and hence an ample amount… (More)
RNAi is an evolutionary conserved silencing pathway in which the double stranded RNA is broken down into small interfering RNA (siRNA) with the help of dicer and RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC)… (More)
In subsistence agricultural systems, crop yields are directly dependent on the inherent soil fertility and on microbial processes that govern the mineralization and mobilization of nutrients required… (More)
Habitat-imposed abiotic and biotic stress is a serious condition and is also a land-degradation problem in arid and semi-arid regions, causing major problem for crop productivity. Most of the… (More)
A combination of cultivation-based methods with a molecular biological approach was employed to investigate whether bacteria with identical 16S rRNA gene sequences can represent distinct eco- and… (More)
Plants are considered as source of commercially important phytochemicals that include metabolites of primary and secondary metabolism wherein primary metabolites are present throughout the plant… (More)