Journal: Microbial Biotechnology
Article Title: Exploiting Paraphaeosphaeria minitans and Its Antifungal Metabolites as Bio‐Fungicides for Eco‐Friendly Management of Head Rot Disease in Cabbage
doi: 10.1111/1751-7915.70309
Figure Lengend Snippet: Scanning electron micrographs showing structural components of S. sclerotiorum (TNAU‐SS‐5) sclerotia in the absence and presence of P. minitans (TNAU‐CM 1). (a) Healthy sclerotium with intact rind (1500×; scale bar, 50 μm). (b) Distorted sclerotium colonised by P. minitans , with pycnidiospores visible on the surface (120×; scale bar, 500 μm; red arrows, pycnidiospores). (c) Pycnidiospores of P. minitans covering S. sclerotiorum hyphae (2000×; scale bar, 50 μm; red arrows, pycnidiospores; yellow arrows, S. sclerotiorum hyphae). (d) Aggregate of pycnidiospores on S. sclerotiorum hyphae (2000×; scale bar, 10 μm; red arrows, pycnidiospores; yellow arrows, S. sclerotiorum hyphae). (e) P. minitans hyphae coiling around and distorting S. sclerotiorum hyphae (5000×; scale bar, 5 μm; yellow arrows, S. sclerotiorum hyphae; red arrows, P. minitans hyphae). (f) Appressorium‐like structures formed by P. minitans at the sclerotial surface (5000×; scale bar, 10 μm; arrows indicate appressorium‐like structures).
Article Snippet: The highly virulent S. sclerotiorum strain TNAU‐SS‐5 (National Centre for Biotechnology Information [NCBI] accession number MZ379266.1 ), maintained at the Department of Plant Pathology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India, was used for this study (Ruppavalli et al. ; Venkatesan et al. ).
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