Publications by authors named "Yea-Fang Wu"
spp. are phytopathogenic bacteria whose phylogeny has been continuously revised throughout the years. Previous studies on 's phenotypic diversity often analyzed strains obtained from specific crops or adopted outdated classification systems.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRice blast caused by is a dangerous threat to rice production and food security worldwide. Breeding and proper deployment of resistant varieties are effective and environmentally friendly strategies to manage this notorious disease. However, a highly dynamic and quickly evolved rice blast pathogen population in the field has made disease control with resistance germplasms more challenging.
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- The wishbone flower, a popular ornamental plant in Taiwan, experienced a severe case of root and stem rot in August 2018 at National Chung Hsing University, causing total infection in the flower bed.
- The affected plants exhibited dark brown symptoms on their stems and necrosis in their roots, leading to laboratory procedures that included isolating and culturing the fungus responsible for the rot.
- Genetic analysis identified the pathogen as a binucleate fungus from the anastomosis group AG-L, confirmed through ITS sequencing and pathogenicity testing on young wishbone flower seedlings.
The rice disease bakanae, caused by Fusarium fujikuroi Nirenberg, has been present in Taiwan for over a century. To better understand the genetic diversity and structure of F. fujikuroi, a set of 16 polymorphic simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers were newly developed and used to analyze 637 F.
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