Modelling the spatio-temporal deployment of resistant varieties to reduce the incidence of rice tungro disease in a dynamic cropping system

A dynamic cropping system was represented by a square lattice of fields in which crops were successively harvested and replanted. A spectrum of crop ages existed at any one time and the virus disease persisted by spread of inoculum between crops. Such a situation is typical of many areas of tropical irrigated rice cultivation in which rice tungro virus disease (RTVD) occurs. Using a mathematical model of the epidemiology of RTVD in the cropping system, the deployment of fields of a genotype expressing some resistance to the disease was investigated. Previous studies on the effect of genotype mixtures on disease progress within a single crop have shown that both the rate of disease increase and the rate of focus expansion were proportional to the logarithm of the fraction of susceptible plants in the mixture. Here, looking at long-term disease incidence in a dynamic cropping system, it was found that this same 'logarithmic rule' applied, provided that resistant crop deployment was spatially random. A relatively large proportion of fields had to be planted with resistant varieties in order to have sufficient area-wide impact on inoculum to reduce disease incidence in fields of susceptible varieties. In many rice cropping systems there are two growing seasons per year and the modelling indicated that the best strategy was to concentrate deployment of resistant varieties in the season of greatest disease spread. Attempts to minimize inoculum carry-over to the 'high spread' season by concentrating resistant varieties in the previous season had little effect over a range of simulated conditions. In considering recommendations for the management of RTVD, a conflict existed between the reduction of disease incidence strategically and in the individual fields of a newly deployed variety. To maximize area-wide strategic impact, small genotype units and random patterns were best, but to protect individual fields, large units and concentrated deployment were best.     

Direct and host‐mediated interactions between Fusarium pathogens and herbivorous arthropods in cereals

Fusarium head blight and fusarium ear rot diseases of cereal crops are significant global problems, causing yield and grain quality losses and accumulation of harmful mycotoxins. Safety limits have been set by the European Commission for several Fusarium‐produced mycotoxins; mitigating the risk of breaching these limits is of great importance to crop producers as part of an integrated approach to disease management. This review examines current knowledge regarding the role of arthropods in disease epidemiology. In the field, diseased host plants are likely to interact with arthropods that may substantially impact the disease by influencing spread or condition of the shared host. For example, disease progress by Fusarium graminearum can be doubled if wheat plants are aphid‐infested. Arthropods have been implicated in disease epidemiology in several cases and the evidence ranges from observed correlations between arthropod infestation and increased disease severity and mycotoxin accumulation, to experimental evidence for arthropod infestation causing heightened pathogen prevalence in hosts. Fusarium pathogens differ in spore production and impact on host volatile chemistry, which influences their suitability for arthropod dispersal. Herbivores may allow secondary fungal infection after wounding a plant or they may alter host susceptibility by inducing changes in plant defence pathways. Post‐harvest, during storage, arthropods may also interact with Fusarium pathogens, with instances of fungivory and altered behaviour by arthropods towards volatile chemicals from infected grain. Host‐mediated indirect pathogen–arthropod interactions are discussed alongside a comprehensive review of evidence for direct interactions where arthropods act as vectors for inoculum.     

Colonization of lettuce cultivars and rotation crops by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lactucae,the cause of fusarium wilt of lettuce

The severity of fusarium wilt is affected by inoculum density in soil, which is expected to decline during intervals when a non‐susceptible crop is grown. However, the anticipated benefits of crop rotation may not be realized if the pathogen can colonize and produce inoculum on a resistant cultivar or rotation crop. The present study documented colonization of roots of broccoli, cauliflower and spinach by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lactucae, the cause of fusarium wilt of lettuce. The frequency of infection was significantly lower on all three rotation crops than on a susceptible lettuce cultivar, and the pathogen was restricted to the cortex of roots of broccoli. However, F. oxysporum f. sp. lactucae was isolated from the root vascular stele of 7·4% of cauliflower plants and 50% of spinach plants that were sampled, indicating a greater potential for colonization and production of inoculum on these crops. The pathogen was also recovered from the root vascular stele of five fusarium wilt‐resistant lettuce cultivars. Thus, disease‐resistant plants may support growth of the pathogen and thereby contribute to an increase in soil inoculum density. Cultivars that were indistinguishable based on above‐ground symptoms, differed significantly in the extent to which they were colonized by F. oxysporum f. sp. lactucae. Less extensively colonized cultivars may prove to be superior sources of resistance to fusarium wilt for use in breeding programmes.     

水稻白叶枯病成株抗性品种病理解剖研究

 成株抗性品种(简称成抗品种)苗期感病阶段和感病品种接种后,病菌在叶片内扩展和繁殖速度快,叶片内部组织变态,导管内菌量多、菌体形态正常;成抗品种成株抗病阶段和全生育期抗病品种(简称全抗品种)与此相反,病菌在接种叶片内扩展和繁殖速度慢,叶片内部组织结构正常,导管内菌量较少.并出现了不同形态的物质,将病菌包围,菌体形状不规则,这些物质在健康叶片、成抗苗期接种叶片和感病品种病叶的导管中未观察到,其形成似乎与品种抗性表现有关系.     

定向筛选提高棉花抗枯萎病的病理学机制

以病圃定向筛选抗枯萎病大幅度提高的棉花材料和原感病品种为对象,研究接种枯萎病菌Fusarium oxysporum f.sp.vasinfectum后抗、感材料的病理学变化。结果表明,二者在宏观病理学方面存在差异,感病品种接种7天开始显症,25天严重发病,整株维管束变色;抗病材料生长健康或只有轻微症状,维管束变色部位仅局限在子叶节以下。在细胞和组织病理学方面二者也存在差异,侵入前期,抗病材料被侵入细胞中有细胞壁加厚现象;侵入中期,病菌可通过表皮层侵入感病品种的薄壁组织,但只能到达抗病材料的皮层组织中;侵入后期,抗病材料中出现大量寄主细胞的降解物质或分泌物将菌丝包围,阻止病菌进一步扩展。抗病材料的抗侵入和抗扩展能力均较感病品种大幅度增强。     

Differential behaviour of sheath blight pathogen Rhizoctonia solani in tolerant and susceptible rice varieties before and during infection

This study characterized the early infection and establishment of the sheath blight pathogen Rhizoctonia solani on a tolerant rice variety, Swarnadhaan (IET 5656), and a susceptible variety, Swarna (MTU 7029). Assays using whole plants showed that disease severity was higher in Swarna than Swarnadhaan. In a detached leaf assay, Swarnadhaan showed a disease index that was 50% less than that with Swarna. Rhizoctonia solani exhibited different growth behaviour in the tolerant and susceptible varieties. The pathogen showed more hyphal growth in the susceptible host than in the tolerant variety. It also showed profuse branching, making intimate contact with the host surface to form more inter‐ and intracellular structures, and greater sclerotial development in the susceptible host compared to the tolerant one. Using light and scanning electron microscopy, it was observed for the first time that the pathogen could intercept host surface structures and use these for anchorage or penetration. Transformed R. solani, expressing green fluorescent protein, was observed using confocal laser scanning microscopy to investigate pathogen behaviour, including the formation of infection cushions and subsequent colonization of the host tissues. This is the first ultrastructural report to characterize the differential behaviour of the sheath blight pathogen in the vicinity and within tolerant and susceptible rice plants.     

Effect of local inoculum on the spread of sweet potato virus disease: limited infection of susceptible cultivars following widespread cultivation of a resistant sweet potato cultivar

A study compared the spread of sweet potato virus disease (SPVD) into crops of two moderately resistant and initially SPVD-free sweet potato cultivars in northern and southern Mpigi, Uganda. Whiteflies, the vector of sweet potato chlorotic stunt crini virus (SPCSV), a component cause of SPVD, were similarly abundant in farmers' sweet potato fields around Namulonge in northern Mpigi, and Kanoni in southern Mpigi. However, mean incidence of SPVD in farmers' crops neighbouring the trials was higher at Kanoni (13.3%) than at Namulonge (2.8%). Furthermore, spread of SPVD into initially SPVD-free sweet potato plots of two only moderately resistant cultivars was greater in plots at Kanoni than in plots at Namulonge. The SPVD-resistant New Kawogo was the most common cultivar grown in farmers' fields at Namulonge and had few diseased plants, whereas susceptible cultivars with relatively high incidences of disease predominated at Kanoni. Final SPVD incidence in each trial was positively correlated with a measure combining the proximity and level of inoculum in surrounding fields. The study demonstrates the importance of local SPVD inoculum in determining the rate of spread of the disease into fields and implies that the widespread cultivation of a resistant variety limits infection of susceptible cultivars grown nearby.     

地被菊品种对镰孢菌侵染的响应差异及抗性综合评定

地被菊枯萎病由镰孢菌引起,是一种土传性病害,严重威胁地被菊生产.本试验用2个强致病力镰孢菌菌株,即尖孢镰孢菌(Fusarium oxysporum)、茄镰孢菌(F.solani)接种5个地被菊品种的幼苗,测定了病菌侵染下不同品种的形态、生理和生化响应的差异,以建立抗病品种筛选的生理和生化指标.地被菊品种间抗性水平可根据...     

棉花抗黄萎病品种选育方法探讨

 在棉花抗病育种中,通过病圃或重病地选择抗病单株是常规的选育方法,但其在抗黄萎病育种中的效果并不理想。如何提高抗黄萎病育种效率,促进育种进程是目前急需解决的问题之一。为此,19982002年我们在北京人工病圃,对不同抗病杂交组合和选育方法的选育效果进行了研究。结果表明,在双亲本均为抗(耐)品种的杂交后代群体中,以9月中旬是抗病还是感病并没有多少关联,对黄萎病抗性的选育应选群体抗病性强的株系或组合,以其丰产性为主要选育目标;只有抗与抗(或高耐)的组合中才能选出黄萎病抗性更高的株系;在抗(耐)品种中,后期无论是抗或感的单株其后代的抗病性差异不明显     

Invasion of Phytophthora infestans at the landscape level: how do spatial scale and weather modulate the consequences of spatial heterogeneity in host resistance?

Strategic spatial patterning of crop species and cultivars could make agricultural landscapes less vulnerable to plant disease epidemics, but experimentation to explore effective disease-suppressive landscape designs is problematic. Here, we present a realistic, multiscale, spatiotemporal, integrodifference equation model of potato late blight epidemics to determine the relationship between spatial heterogeneity and disease spread, and determine the effectiveness of mixing resistant and susceptible cultivars at different spatial scales under the influence of weather. The model framework comprised a landscape generator, a potato late blight model that includes host and pathogen life cycles and fungicide management at the field scale, and an atmospheric dispersion model that calculates spore dispersal at the landscape scale. Landscapes consisted of one or two distinct potato-growing regions (6.4-by-6.4-km) embedded within a nonhost matrix. The characteristics of fields and growing regions and the separation distance between two growing regions were investigated for their effects on disease incidence, measured as the proportion of fields with ≥1% severity, after inoculation of a single potato grid cell with a low initial level of disease. The most effective spatial strategies for suppressing disease spread in a region were those that reduced the acreage of potato or increased the proportion of a resistant potato cultivar. Clustering potato cultivation in some parts of a region, either by planting in large fields or clustering small fields, enhanced the spread within such a cluster while it delayed spread from one cluster to another; however, the net effect of clustering was an increase in disease at the landscape scale. The planting of mixtures of a resistant and susceptible cultivar was a consistently effective option for creating potato-growing regions that suppressed disease spread. It was more effective to mix susceptible and resistant cultivars within fields than plant some fields entirely with a susceptible cultivar and other fields with a resistant cultivar, at the same ratio of susceptible to resistant potato plants at the landscape level. Separation distances of at least 16 km were needed to completely prevent epidemic spread from one potato-growing region to another. Effects of spatial placement of resistant and susceptible potato cultivars depended strongly on meteorological conditions, indicating that landscape connectivity for the spread of plant disease depends on the particular coincidence between direction of spread, location of fields, distance between the fields, and survival of the spores depending on the weather. Therefore, in the simulation of (airborne) pathogen invasions, it is important to consider the large variability of atmospheric dispersion conditions.     

谷子抵御白发病菌侵染的生理生化及基因表达分析

 白发病已成为我国谷子生产上的重要病害,不仅造成产量下降,还对谷子品质构成威胁。有关谷子品种响应白发病菌侵染的生理生化机制研究尚未见报道。本研究采用病菌卵孢子和谷粒混合的接菌方法分别接种抗病品种‘G1'和高感品种‘晋谷21'(JG21),并测定抗感谷子的植株形态指标、光合参数、防御酶活性、抗氧化酶活性、可溶性糖及脯氨酸含量,同时结合基因表达分析,旨在明确谷子响应白发病菌侵染机制。结果表明,白发病菌侵染抗感品种后,植株高度及叶面积均表现出不同程度的下降,感病品种的株高降低幅度远大于抗病品种;与抗病品种相比,感病品种中除了胞间CO₂浓度显著升高外,其他光合参数显著下降,且均低于抗病品种。抗病品种中抗氧化酶和防御酶活性及脯氨酸、可溶性糖含量均升高,显著高于感病品种。抗病相关基因Seita.2G024600(PR1)、Seita.7G168700(PAL)、Seita.1G240200(PAL)和 Seita.9G462500(POD)在抗病品种中上调,而在感病品种中表达受到抑制或下调。以上光合参数、酶活性、Pro和可溶性糖含量变化等生理生化指标可作为抗性鉴定和种质筛选的参考,这些差异表达基因可能参与了谷子对白发病菌抗病调控。研究结果可为谷子抗病分子机制及分子改良育种提供理论基础。     

谷子抵御白发病菌侵染的生理生化及基因表达分析

 白发病已成为我国谷子生产上的重要病害,不仅造成产量下降,还对谷子品质构成威胁。有关谷子品种响应白发病菌侵染的生理生化机制研究尚未见报道。本研究采用病菌卵孢子和谷粒混合的接菌方法分别接种抗病品种‘G1'和高感品种‘晋谷21'(JG21),并测定抗感谷子的植株形态指标、光合参数、防御酶活性、抗氧化酶活性、可溶性糖及脯氨酸含量,同时结合基因表达分析,旨在明确谷子响应白发病菌侵染机制。结果表明,白发病菌侵染抗感品种后,植株高度及叶面积均表现出不同程度的下降,感病品种的株高降低幅度远大于抗病品种;与抗病品种相比,感病品种中除了胞间CO₂浓度显著升高外,其他光合参数显著下降,且均低于抗病品种。抗病品种中抗氧化酶和防御酶活性及脯氨酸、可溶性糖含量均升高,显著高于感病品种。抗病相关基因Seita.2G024600(PR1)、Seita.7G168700(PAL)、Seita.1G240200(PAL)和 Seita.9G462500(POD)在抗病品种中上调,而在感病品种中表达受到抑制或下调。以上光合参数、酶活性、Pro和可溶性糖含量变化等生理生化指标可作为抗性鉴定和种质筛选的参考,这些差异表达基因可能参与了谷子对白发病菌抗病调控。研究结果可为谷子抗病分子机制及分子改良育种提供理论基础。     

Population Dynamics of Fusarium Oxysporum f. Sp. Radicis-lycopersici in Relation to the Onset of Fusarium Crown and Root Rot of Tomato

Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. radicis-lycopersici the causal agent of crown and root rot in tomato comprises two overlapping separate phases: monocyclic and polycyclic. Oversummering inoculum is the source of primary infection (the monocyclic phase) and the spread from plant to plant via root-to-root contact is the source of the secondary infection (the polycyclic phase). In the present work, relationships between initial inoculum density, population dynamics of the pathogen in the root zone of diseased plants, and disease onset were studied. For the monocyclic phase, 55.1% of the variance of disease onset was attributed to the rate of pathogen proliferation in the root zone of plants, and only 12.8% of the variance was attributed to the amount of initial inoculum density. For the polycyclic phase, disease onset was not related to either initial inoculum density or the rate of pathogen proliferation in the root zone. At disease onset, the inoculum density of the pathogen in the root zone of plants infected from oversummering inoculum reached an average of 4.08 log cfu g soil^–1. The inoculum density of the pathogen in the root zone of plants infected by their diseased neighbors was 3.23 log cfu g soil^–1. A large variation in pathogen proliferation rate in the root zone was found among individual plants, suggesting that differences in the level of soil suppressiveness may occur not only between fields, but even in the same field over short distances.     

Effect of varietal resistance on the yield loss function of wheat to nodorum blotch

Cultivar disease resistance ratings to nodorum blotch (caused by Parastagonospora nodorum) provide critical information to growers to assist with disease management. However, less has been done in terms of yield losses from diseases under different cultivar resistance scenarios. The purpose of this study was to characterize yield and quality loss responses to wheat nodorum blotch as influenced by variety partial resistance, epidemic intensity, and environment. The trial series includes four site/years in Western Australia. Five varieties, Magenta, Calingiri, Trojan, Janz, and Scout were used for all four trials. These varieties represented resistant/susceptible categories MRMS, MS, MSS, S, and SVS, respectively, and were selected on the basis that they were adapted to the western region, had similar maturities, and were resistant to diseases that were potential contaminants. Trials were sown in a strip-plot design with three replicates and five disease levels, with intersecting main-plots of varieties and disease levels, which facilitated comparisons across disease levels within varieties. Current categories of resistance were well reflected in yield and quality responses. A negative exponential relationship was observed between yield and disease, with a nonlinear yield loss function for both flag leaf and glume infection. This indicates that yield is most affected during early stages of disease on flag leaves and glumes. The functional form of yield loss response over four site years was similar among varieties, but varieties differed in their extent of disease expression. Partial resistance in commercial wheat varieties reduced yield loss by 40%–60% of losses observed in susceptible varieties.     

青枯菌(Pseudomonas solanacearum)在番茄抗、感病品种根部的吸附、侵入和繁殖

 采用不同的方法接种和利用扫描、透射电镜观察,研究不同致病力的青枯菌对番茄抗病及感病品种根部的吸附、侵入与繁殖。发现番茄抗病品种与感病品种的植株体内在菌体数量上有明显差异,而与青枯菌对番茄根部的吸附关系不显著。电镜观察发现青枯菌强致病力菌株菌体能以游离的形式存在于番茄感病品种根部的细胞间隙中,并能降解植株细胞壁、破坏原生质膜;青枯菌强致病力菌株菌体在抗病品种根内和青枯菌强致病力菌株在抗病及感病品种根内均被番茄植株细胞壁吸附,并且被细胞壁周围的浓密物质所包围。     

木虱传播柑桔黄龙病及电镜检验报告

 本试验在福建省福州市及广东省侥平县两地进行。1978年以来,在福州市以蕉柑、福桔和新会甜橙病树为毒源树,以柑桔实生健苗为指示植物,进行木虱传试验。结果在329株指示苗中,发病40株,发病率12.2%,潜育期短的半年,长的5年。对照指示苗72株均未见发病。1982~1984年,在饶平县以蕉柑病树为毒源树,以椪柑实生健苗为指示植物,共试验70株,发病33株,发病率47.1%,潜育期短的2个月,长的8个月。对照指示苗9株未见发病。木虱传染病苗的病状与毒源树的病状相同,均表现黄梢和叶片斑驳。获"毒"木虱的唾液腺和脂肪体的超薄切片样本在电镜下均观察到原核细胞微生物(称为类立次克体或类细菌)。唾液腺内的病原体分布在外皮层细胞,内皮层细胞和腺腔内。其菌体的形状大小和膜壁结构等特征均与毒源树及木虱传染病苗的筛管细胞内的相同,木虱获得和传递柑桔黄龙病病原的方式与蚜虫传播病毒中的持久性类型十分相似。     

一些农业措施对小麦稈黑粉病发病过程的影响

小麦个体的生活力与稈黑粉病的发生有密切的关系。在受病的植株中,常常发现一些生长强壮的分蘖,不表现明显病症;而生长衰弱的发病严重。高感或高抗品种试验均一致显示:大粒种子长起的植株,稈黑粉病发病率低;小粒的发病率高,约为大粒种的2—3倍。大粒种子抗病,主要是由于它的生活力较强。播种期对稈黑粉病的发生有很大的影响:秋播发病重,在武功以10月上、中旬播种的发病率最高。但在春播中,经多年来试验,许多对稈黑粉病高感或中感的冬小麦品种均变为完全免疫。其主要原因是由于春播破坏了病原物、寄主及环境三者在进化中所形成的相互一致性,并在小麦个体内造成不利于稈黑粉病菌发展的内在条件。试验说明:小麦受稈黑粉菌侵染后,病菌与寄主间的相互关系可以采用的某种农业措施而被干扰,并可达到防治病害的目的。     

Stepwise Evolution of Races in Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceris Inferred from Fingerprinting with Repetitive DNA Sequences

ABSTRACT Plant pathogens often exhibit variation in virulence, the ability to cause disease on host plants with specific resistance, evident from the diversity of races observed within pathogen species. The evolution of races in asexual fungal pathogens has been hypothesized to occur in a stepwise fashion, in which mutations to virulence accumulate sequentially in clonal lineages, resulting in races capable of overcoming multiple host plant resistance genes or multiple resistant cultivars. In this study, we demonstrate a simple stepwise pattern of race evolution in Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceris, the fungus that causes Fusarium wilt of chickpeas. The inferred intraspecific phylogeny of races in this fungus, based on DNA fingerprinting with repetitive sequences, shows that each of the eight races forms a monophyletic lineage. By mapping virulence to each differential cultivar (used for defining races) onto the inferred phylogeny, we show that virulence has been acquired in a simple stepwise pattern, with few parallel gains or losses. Such a clear pattern of stepwise evolution of races, to our knowledge, has not been demonstrated previously for other pathogens based on analyses of field populations. We speculate that in other systems the stepwise pattern is obscured by parallel gains or losses of virulence caused by higher mutation rates and selection by widespread deployment of resistant cultivars. Although chickpea cultivars resistant to Fusarium wilt are available, their deployment has not been extensive and the stepwise acquisition of virulence is still clearly evident.     

Quantifying Aphanomyces euteiches in Alfalfa with a Fluorescent Polymerase Chain Reaction Assay

ABSTRACT A polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay using a set of specific primers and a dual-labeled probe (TaqMan) was developed to quantify the amount of Aphanomyces euteiches DNA in alfalfa plants exhibiting varying levels of disease severity. The study included isolates of race 1 and race 2 of A. euteiches. The assay also discriminated between alfalfa populations for resistance based on analysis of DNA extracted from bulked plant samples. Analysis of individual plants and bulked plant samples of standard check populations with both pathogen isolates resulted in Spearman rank correlations between pathogen DNA content and disease severity index ratings that were greater than 0.75 and highly significant (P < 0.0005). In experiments with a race 1 isolate, the amount of pathogen DNA present in the resistant check WAPH-1 was significantly less than in the susceptible check Saranac. In experiments with a race 2 isolate, the amount of pathogen DNA in the resistant check WAPH-5 was significantly less than in either of the susceptible checks, Saranac and WAPH-1. Discrimination between commercial cultivars based on quantitative PCR analysis of bulked plant samples was similar to classification based on visual assessment of disease severity.