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Effect of hosts on competition among clones and evidence of differential selection between pathogenic and saprophytic phases in experimental populations of the wheat pathogen Phaeosphaeria nodorum

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العنوان: Effect of hosts on competition among clones and evidence of differential selection between pathogenic and saprophytic phases in experimental populations of the wheat pathogen Phaeosphaeria nodorum
المؤلفون: Sommerhalder, Rubik J., McDonald, Bruce A., Mascher, Fabio, Zhan, Jiasui
المصدر: BMC Evolutionary Biology, 11
بيانات النشر: BioMed Central
سنة النشر: 2011
المجموعة: ETH Zürich Research Collection
مصطلحات موضوعية: Host selection, Experimental evolution, Microsatellite, Stagonospora nodorum, Cultivar mixture, Genetic diversity
الوصف: Background Monoculture, multi-cropping and wider use of highly resistant cultivars have been proposed as mechanisms to explain the elevated rate of evolution of plant pathogens in agricultural ecosystems. We used a mark-release-recapture experiment with the wheat pathogen Phaeosphaeria nodorum to evaluate the impact of two of these mechanisms on the evolution of a pathogen population. Nine P. nodorum isolates marked with ten microsatellite markers and one minisatellite were released onto five replicated host populations to initiate epidemics of Stagonospora nodorum leaf blotch. The experiment was carried out over two consecutive host growing seasons and two pathogen collections were made during each season. Results A total of 637 pathogen isolates matching the marked inoculants were recovered from inoculated plots over two years. Genetic diversity in the host populations affected the evolution of the corresponding P. nodorum populations. In the cultivar mixture the relative frequencies of inoculants did not change over the course of the experiment and the pathogen exhibited a low variation in selection coefficients. Conclusions Our results support the hypothesis that increasing genetic heterogeneity in host populations may retard the rate of evolution in associated pathogen populations. Our experiment also provides indirect evidence of fitness costs associated with host specialization in P. nodorum as indicated by differential selection during the pathogenic and saprophytic phases. ; ISSN:1471-2148
نوع الوثيقة: article in journal/newspaper
وصف الملف: application/application/pdf
اللغة: English
Relation: info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/wos/000293221800001; http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/38595
DOI: 10.3929/ethz-b-000038595
الاتاحة: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/38595
https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000038595
Rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess ; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ ; Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.65086FC4
قاعدة البيانات: BASE
الوصف
DOI:10.3929/ethz-b-000038595