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II. Cereal disease: the interplay between resistance and pathogenicity: Studies of host specificity of indigenous isolates of Pseudocercosporella herpotrichoides
Author(s) -
CUNNINGHAM P. C.
Publication year - 1980
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.1744-7348.1980.tb03932.x
Subject(s) - biology , host (biology) , virulence , pathogen , poaceae , triticale , hordeum vulgare , agronomy , wheat leaf rust , pyrenophora , avena , eyespot , take all , rhizoctonia , pathogenicity , infestation , botany , cultivar , fungus , microbiology and biotechnology , genetics , rhizoctonia solani , gene
Variation in host response of isolates of the eyespot pathogen from different sources was examined over a number of years. Pathogen types were found in intensively‐cropped couch‐infested cereal sites that were almost as virulent on Agropyron repens (couch) as on wheat or barley. The commonly occurring wheat (W) type isolates from couch‐free cereal crops were virulent on wheat and barley but avirulent on couch. Couch (C) types were isolated not only from couch but also from wheat, barley and oat crops with couch infestation. In pathogenicity tests on rye, C. types did not differ in virulence from the more commonly occurring W types. Aegilops ventricosa was equally resistant to both types. W type isolates from wheat and barley were examined to assess differential pathogenicity on wheat and barley. Sequential cropping with single cereal crops was used to separate out possible specific types. Isolates from fourth wheat and fourth barley crops were more pathogenic on the original than on the alternative host. When comparisons were made between isolates from third and fifth consecutive wheat and barley crops only those from barley showed a preference for the original host. An experiment comparing isolates from third and seventh consecutive wheat and barley crops showed a decline in virulence from the short to the longer sequences on the alternative but not on the original host.