Catnip ( L.) plants produce a wide array of specialized metabolites with multiple applications for human health. The productivity of such metabolites, including nepetalactones, and natural insect repellents is influenced by the conditions under which the plants are cultivated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn 1922, was described by Leon Hatching Leonian as a new pathogen infecting pepper (), with disease symptoms of root rot, stem and fruit blight, seed rot, and plant wilting and death. Extensive research has been conducted on over the last 100 years. This review succinctly describes the salient mile markers of research on with current perspectives on the pathogen's distribution, economic importance, epidemiology, genetics and genomics, fungicide resistance, host susceptibility, pathogenicity mechanisms, and management.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn December 2019, New Jersey became one of the first states to have its industrial hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) plan approved by the U.S.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The basil (Ocimum spp.) genus maintains a rich diversity of phenotypes and aromatic volatiles through natural and artificial outcrossing. Characterization of population structure and genetic diversity among a representative sample of this genus is severely lacking.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBasil (Ocimum spp.) is one of the most economically important and widely grown herbs in the world. Basil downy mildew, caused by Peronospora belbahrii, has become an important disease in sweet basil (O.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBasil downy mildew (BDM), caused by the fungus-like oomycete pathogen Peronospora belbahrii, has become a destructive disease of sweet basil (Ocimum basilicum). Without proper management, BDM can cause complete crop loss. Currently, there are no commercially available sweet basil cultivars with genetic resistance to BDM.
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