A5091275566- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
- Horticultural and Viticultural Research
- Plant Physiology and Cultivation Studies
- Plant and animal studies
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Organic Food and Agriculture
- Postharvest Quality and Shelf Life Management
- Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics
- Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Sustainability in Higher Education
- Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis
- Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
- Plant tissue culture and regeneration
- Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
- Entomopathogenic Microorganisms in Pest Control
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Healthcare Facilities Design and Sustainability
- Plant pathogens and resistance mechanisms
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
Bishop's University
2022-2024
American University of Beirut
2017-2023
Université Laval
2004-2014
Forêt Méditerranéenne
2014
The future of food value chains has increasingly been reliant on the wider adoption sustainable farming practices that include organic agriculture. Organic in developed countries is standardized and occupies a niche agro-food systems. However, such standard model, when transferred to developing countries, faces difficulty implementation. This study aims investigate factors affecting expansion agriculture Lebanon, Middle Eastern context, analyzes economic performance tomato among smallholder...
The host–pathogen interaction leading to Dutch elm disease was analyzed using histo- and cyto-chemical tests in an vitro system. Friable hard susceptible Ulmus americana callus cultures were inoculated with the highly aggressive pathogen Ophiostoma novo-ulmi. Inoculated tissues compared water-treated studied light microscopy (LM), transmission-electron (TEM), scanning-electron (SEM). New aspects of this are described. These include histological observation, for first time plant cultures,...
During the last decades, development of ever more powerful genetic, molecular and omic approaches has provided plant pathologists with a wide array experimental tools for elucidating intricacies plant-pathogen interactions proposing new control strategies. In case Dutch elm disease (DED) pathosystem, these have been applied advancing knowledge host (Ulmus spp.) causal agents (Ophiostoma ulmi, O. novo-ulmi himal-ulmi). Genetic analyses led to identification, cloning characterization few genes...
Suppression subtractive hybridization cDNA libraries were prepared from asexual synnemata (S-lib) and sexual perithecia (P-lib) fruiting bodies of the Dutch elm disease pathogen Ophiostoma novo-ulmi subsp. isolate H327 (mating-type MAT1-1) consisting 630 401 clones, respectively. Both differentially screened in duplicate with forward reverse subtracted probes. Up-regulated S-lib transcripts included those homologies to phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase aquaporin. P-lib aspartyl proteinase,...
Reports indicate that climate changes will result in the extinction of a significant percentage plant species even though many these contributed to crucial genetic traits led development domestic crops. In past, diversified range species, varieties, and agricultural practices allowed agriculture production local food systems tolerate moderate variability. Today, industrial farming relies on very limited diversity for commercial production. Narrowing base leads higher susceptibility...
The Canadian Ophiostoma Genome Project, which was initiated in 2001, is a collaborative effort between research teams four different universities. Its general objective to conduct large-scale identification and analysis of genes controlling important aspects the life cycle Ophiostomatoid fungi. To this end, several expressed sequence tag (EST) libraries were obtained for Dutch elm disease pathogen novo-ulmi sapstainer O. piceae, following partial, single-pass automated sequencing...