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An apparatus for the isolated propagation of foliar pathogens and their hosts
Author(s) -
JENKYN J. F.,
HIRST J. M.,
KING G.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
annals of applied biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.677
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1744-7348
pISSN - 0003-4746
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-7348.1973.tb01303.x
Subject(s) - biology , obligate , spore , obligate parasite , incubation , quarantine , conidium , isolation (microbiology) , pathogen , botany , ecology , microbiology and biotechnology , host (biology) , biochemistry
SUMMARY Epidemiological studies, especially of obligate pathogens, often require healthy test plants and the incubation of infections in isolation. Ventilation of glasshouses with spore‐free air is helpful but costly, and provides only a few discrete environments. The apparatus described is cheap and simple and enables many separate covered plant pots to be supplied with filtered air. It was designed to help measure the incubation time and frequency of viable conidia of Erysiphe graminis , but may also be useful for studying other pathogens and, with some modification, for plant breeding or quarantine.