Phytopathology

prof. dr. ir. Monica Höfte

The Phytopathology unit focuses on the biology and impact of fungal and bacterial plant pathogens.

Ongoing research projects:

• Secondary metabolites produced by beneficial bacteria (Lu Zhou)
• The fungal pathosystem of rice sheath rot (Mathieu Mahillon)
• Insights into soil-borne pathogens: characterization of Swedish Rhizoctonia solani strains and xylem adaptations of Verticillium dahliae (Shirley Marcou)
• Mycin production, extraction and analysis (Jasmine De Rop)
• Characterizing Sarocladium and Fusarium spp. diversity and toxin production in rice sheath rot disease in sub-Saharan Africa (Oluwatoyin Afolabi)
• Combatting Fusarium wilt in lettuce: molecular diagnostics and control strategies (Hanna Mestdagh)
• Alternative control of Phytophthora cryptogea in the hydroponic cultivation of lettuce and chicory (Kilian Van Loocke)
• Biocontrol and Pathogenicity in Pseudomonas asplenii group (Bishnu Marahtatta)
• Plantjacking: how vascular pathogens avoid starvation in the xylem (Roos Bex)
• Causal agents and control strategies for durian tree decline (Nghi Nguyen Ba)

 Publications