“…The interactions between sunflower plants and P. halstedii on the level of pathogenicity have been the object of several studies: virulence and aggressiveness (Tourvieille de Labrouhe et al, 2000, 2010Delmotte et al, 2008;Sakr, 2011aSakr, , 2011bSakr, , 2011cSakr, , 2012Sakr, , 2014aSakr, , 2014bSakr, , 2014cSakr, , 2015aSakr, , 2015bAhmed et al, 2012). Virulence has been defined as specific disease-causing abilities and aggressiveness as non-specific disease-causing abilities ( Van der Plank, 1968).…”