… a plant anti-TS antibody (Soliman and Raizada, unpublished data). Interestingly, using
selective … Raizada was supported by a grant from the Ontario Ministry of Food and Rural Affairs (…

… Raizada. (B) Finger millet seed heads nearing maturity at the University of Guelph in Canada…
Raizada. (D) Drudgery associated with transporting grain in the rural areas of Nepal. Source…

Weeds are a nuisance in a variety of land uses. The increasing prevalence of both herbicide
resistant weeds and bans on cosmetic pesticide use has created a strong impetus to …

Endophytes are non-pathogenic microbes living inside plants. We asked whether endophytic
species were conserved in the agriculturally important plant genus Zea as it became …

… living inside plants are known as endophytes and may have a direct effect on plant growth
and health, given the intimate contact between the two (Johnston-Monje and Raizada 2011b). …

In the past, there have been drought events in different parts of the world, which have
negatively influenced the productivity and production of various crops including wheat (Triticum …

Nitrogen is the most limiting nutrient in most agro-ecosystems and thus critical for sustaining
high yields. Conventional agricultural practices use synthetic fertilizers to ensure an …

Soybean is the most widely grown legume in the world. A beneficial feature of soybean is its
ability to associate with rhizobia bacteria in its root nodules to fix atmospheric nitrogen …

Within a plant, there can exist an ecosystem of pathogens and endophytes, the latter
described as bacterial and fungal inhabitants that thrive without causing disease to the host. …

The ancient African crop, finger millet, has broad resistance to pathogens including the
toxigenic fungus Fusarium graminearum. Here, we report the discovery of a novel plant defence …