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)
- Sustainable control of fungal pathogens in flax - TRANS-PATHOFLAX 2.0
Publications