Several viroids in the genus Pospiviroid can infect tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) and cause severe diseases, posing a serious threat to tomato production. For simultaneous detection of six tomato-infecting pospiviroids - columnea latent viroid (CLVd), pepper chat fruit viroid (PCFVd), potato...

A quantitative and accurate method is needed to estimate indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) production by Trichoderma to compare strains and allow the repeatability of experiments in plant-growth promotion studies. Suspensions of 1.0 × 10⁶ conidia. mL^-1 of 98 Brazilian strains were grown in potato +...

Pseudomonas sp. is a well-known rhizosphere growth-promoting bacterium. Our objectives were to investigate the synergetic effect of using nanochitosan to deliver Pseudomonas fluorescens on its stability in the soil and induction resistance against fusarium wilt in tomato plants. A greenhouse study...

The objective of this study was to explore the effects of different degrees of water and salt stress on the quality and sucrose-related metabolic enzymes of tomatoes. The greenhouse pot experiment was used to set three influencing factors, the irrigation water salinity (S), different degrees of...

Optimal plant nutrition is one of the accurate solutions to meet the demands of population growth and food in the future. In order to study the effect of different fertilizers on the responses of tomato plant, a greenhouse experiment was conducted as a factorial arrangement based on a completely...

The invasive pest tomato pinworm, Tuta absoluta (Meyrick) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae), was observed for the first time in the Udaipur district of Southern Rajasthan, India, during 2018-2020 under field and protected cultivation in tomato. Morphological and molecular identification (amplifying ...

The onset of digital information and computing power brings the opportunity to optimize the use of agricultural inputs and favors the transit to an information-based agriculture. The tomato leafminer (TLM), Phthorimaea absoluta, is a major pest of greenhouse tomatoes, and its control relies heavily ...

Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) is a highly economical and socially important vegetable in the world and a priority crop in greenhouse cultivation. Plant growth and yield increments through the over application of nitrogen and potassium fertilizers are commonplace in soilless culture in many...

Endophytic bacteria serve key roles in the maintenance of plant health and growth. Few studies to date, however, have explored the antagonistic and plant growth-promoting (PGP) properties of Prunus cerasifera endophytes. To that end, we isolated endophytic bacteria from P. cerasifera tissue samples ...

Background: Tomato mosaic disease, mainly caused by Tomato mosaic virus (ToMV), is one of the devastating viral diseases which adversely affects tomato yield, globally. Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) have been recently used as bio-elicitors to induce resistance against plant viruses....