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Diseases caused by phytoplasmas are gaining importance in recent years on pigeonpea, chickpea, buckwheat, sunhemp, sesamum, brinjal and...

Secretion systems are essential for phytopathogenic bacteria to produce surface structures for adhesion, aggregation and bacterial...

Bacteria communicate with one another by using chemical signalling molecules which is termed as quorum sensing (QS). This process...

Hydrophobins are the low molecular weight (<20kDa) secreted proteins of filamentous fungi. These are characterized by the presence of...

Plants are exposed to pathogens like fungi, bacteria, viruses and nematodes. The proteins from pathogens have dual functions in host...

Bacteria communicate with one another by using chemical signal molecules. As in higher organism , the information supplied by these...

ABSTRACT Phytoplasmas are prokaryotes that lack a cell wall and are the causal agents of numerous plant diseases. Phytoplasmas inhabit...

Niger [Guizotia abyssinica (L.f.) Cass.] is one of the important minor oilseed crop in India. Phyllody disease on niger noticed for the first time at Agricultural Research Farm, Hebbal, Bengaluru

Buckwheat is an ancient herbaceous pseudocereal crop belonging to Polygonaceae family which occupy a crucial part of the human diet and is consumed globally.

Field bean (Lablab purpureusL. Sweet) is one of the important pulse crops in tropics. It’s green beans serve as vegetable. The split or whole dried beans are used as dhal.

Sesamum (Sesamum indicum L.) is one of the most important and ancient oilseed crop grown in India and many parts of the world. Sesamum seed is a rich source of edible oil.

China aster (Callistephus chinensis L. Nees.) is one of the important flower crop in India. It belongs to the family Asteraceae is native to China. Phyllody disease in China aster was first reported during 1986 from Bengaluru, India and known to be transmitted by Orosius albicinctus.