Warm temperatures, high humidity, and frequent heavy rains are creating ideal conditions for fungal diseases to thrive in ...

Pythium is a pathogen that lives in soil and often wreaks havoc on row-crop operations. The disease causes about $25 million in annual damage to the North American corn crop.¹ Pythium and other ...

Pythium is a soilborne pathogen that is present in nearly all soybean fields and causes seedling rot and/or damping-off. There is a broad range of Pythium species, meaning the disease can be ...

Gaétan Le Floch, Patrice Rey, Emile Benizri, Nicole Benhamou, Yves Tirilly, Impact of auxin-compounds produced by the antagonistic fungus Pythium oligandrum or the minor pathogen Pythium group F on ...

Pythium insidiosum is an aquatic oomycete responsible for pythiosis, a disease affecting humans and a variety of animals. This pathogen, although fungus‐like in its presentation, exhibits ...

Frank N. Martin, Phylogenetic Relationships among Some Pythium Species Inferred from Sequence Analysis of the Mitochondrially Encoded Cytochrome Oxidase II Gene, Mycologia, Vol. 92, No. 4 (Jul. - Aug.

"Because pythium was a new disease for us in Australia it took quite a few years to get new research and development to work out how to fight it, but the Japanese just gave us good information to ...

Growth inhibitors were isolated from an arctic strain of Trichoderma polysporum, and the structures were elucidated and the in vitro inhibitory effects of these compounds against Pythium iwayamai ...

Climate change is affecting the health of agricultural soils. Increased heat and drought make life easy for the pathogenic fungus Pythium ultimum. As an international team of researchers has shown ...

Pythium wilt was first seen in 2011 in the Salinas Valley, but Jose Pablo Dundore-Arias, a plant pathologist at California State University Monterey Bay, said it didn’t present major challenges ...

Pythium, a fungus-like pathogen, is one of the main factors limiting the production of spinach in commercial indoor growing operations, according to Ryan Dickson, assistant professor of greenhouse ...