A Duplex-Droplet Digital PCR Assay for Simultaneous Quantitative Detection of and on Stone Fruits.

Brown rot, caused by different species, is a most economically important disease of pome and stone fruits worldwide. In Europe and in Italy, the quarantine pathogen was recently introduced and rapidly spread and, by competing with the main indigenous species and , caused relevant changes in populations. As a result, in most areas, the pathogen almost replaced and now coexists with .

Transcriptome sequence resource for the cucurbit powdery mildew pathogen Podosphaera xanthii.

Podosphaera xanthii is the main causal agent of cucurbit powdery mildew in Southern Italy. Illumina sequencing of mRNA from two P. xanthii isolates of opposite mating types (MAT1-1 and MAT1-2) and their sexual cross was used to obtain a detailed de novo Trinity-based assembly of the transcriptome of the fungus.