Challenges for plant protection of berry crops in northern Europe

Parikka, Päivi; Tuovinen, Tuomo; Lemmetty, Anne

doi:10.17660/actahortic.2016.1117.17

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“…The pathogen favors cool and moist climate and spreads via air and water droplets. Current control methods against the pathogen rely on fungicides as there are no resistant cultivars available (Kostamo et al, 2015, Parikka et al, 2016). Peronospora sparsa is a multi-host pathogen (Hukkanen et al, 2006) and in addition to wild R. arcticus its other potential host species cloudberry, Rubus chamaemorus , and stone bramble, Rubus saxatilis , grow commonly in forests and roadsides adjacent to the plantations making pathogen transmission between fields and wild plants a challenge for disease management.…”

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Alternative host shapes transmission and life-history trait correlations in a multi-host plant pathogen

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Most pathogens are generalists capable of infecting multiple host species or strains. Trade-offs in performance among different hosts are expected to limit the evolution of generalism. Despite the commonness of generalism, the variation in infectivity, transmission, and trade-offs in performance among host species have rarely been studied in the wild. To understand the ecological and evolutionary drivers of multi-host pathogen infectivity and transmission potential, I studied disease severity, transmission dynamics and infectivity variation of downy mildew pathogen sparsa on its three host plants Rubus arcticus, R. chamaemorus, and R. saxatilis. In a survey of 19 wild and cultivated sites of the three host species, disease severity varied by host species and by whether the focal host species grew in shared habitat with other host species. Generally, the presence of an alternative host resulted in lower disease severity. To understand how alternative host presence and plant diversity affect on transmission of the pathogen, I conducted a trap plant experiment. In contrast to the field survey observations, the presence of R. saxatilis was positively correlated with transmission to trap plants. To understand how resistance to P. sparsa varies among host species and genotypes, I conducted an inoculation experiment using 10 P. sparsa strains from different locations and 20 genotypes of the three host species. Significant variation in infectivity was found among host genotypes but not among host species. The pathogens strains originating form sites with R. saxatilis were less infective than those without. When trade-offs for infectivity were tested, high infectivity in one host species correlated with high infectivity in another host species. However, when pathogen transmission-related life-history correlations were tested, a positive correlation was found in R. arcticus but not in R. saxatilis. The results suggest that host resistance may shape pathogen life-history evolution with epidemiological consequences in a multi-host pathogen.

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Alternative host shapes transmission and life-history trait correlations in a multi-host plant pathogen

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“…The pathogen favors a cool and moist climate and spreads via air and water droplets. Current control methods rely on fungicides as there are no resistant cultivars available (Kostamo et al, 2015;Parikka et al, 2016). P. sparsa is a multi-host pathogen (Hukkanen et al, 2006); in addition to wild R. arcticus, its other potential host species, the cloudberry, Rubus chamaemorus, and stone bramble, Rubus saxatilis, grow commonly in forests and roadsides adjacent to plantations, making pathogen transmission between fields and wild plants a challenge for disease management.…”

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Alternative host shapes transmission and life‐history trait correlations in a multi‐host plant pathogen

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Most pathogens are generalists capable of infecting multiple host species or strains. Trade‐offs in performance among different hosts are expected to limit the evolution of generalism. Despite the commonness of generalism, the variation in infectivity, transmission, and trade‐offs in performance among host species have rarely been studied in the wild. To understand the ecological and evolutionary drivers of multi‐host pathogen infectivity and transmission potential, I studied disease severity, transmission dynamics, and infectivity variation of downy mildew pathogen Peronospora sparsa on its three host plants Rubus arcticus, R. chamaemorus, and R. saxatilis. In a survey of 20 wild and cultivated sites of the three host species, disease severity varied by host species and by host population size but not among wild and cultivated sites. To understand how alternative host presence and plant diversity affect transmission of the pathogen, I conducted a transmission experiment. In this experiment, alternative host abundance and plant diversity together modified P. sparsa transmission to trap plants. To understand how resistance to P. sparsa varies among host species and genotypes, I conducted an inoculation experiment using 10 P. sparsa strains from different locations and 20 genotypes of the three host species. Significant variation in infectivity was found among host genotypes but not among host species. When trade‐offs for infectivity were tested, high infectivity in one host species correlated with high infectivity in another host species. However, when pathogen transmission‐related life‐history correlations were tested, a positive correlation was found in R. arcticus but not in R. saxatilis. The results suggest that host resistance may shape pathogen life‐history evolution with epidemiological consequences in a multi‐host pathogen.

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Challenges for plant protection of berry crops in northern Europe

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Alternative host shapes transmission and life-history trait correlations in a multi-host plant pathogen

Alternative host shapes transmission and life-history trait correlations in a multi-host plant pathogen

Alternative host shapes transmission and life‐history trait correlations in a multi‐host plant pathogen

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