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Ecological genetic divergence of the fungal pathogen Didymella rabiei on sympatric wild and domesticated Cicer spp. (Chickpea).
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Jan 2010
Frenkel Omer, Peever Tobin L, Chilvers Martin I, Ozkilinc Hilal, Can Canan, Abbo Shahal, Shtienberg Dani, Sherman Amir
Abstract excerpt
For millennia, chickpea (Cicer arietinum) has been grown in the Levant sympatrically with wild Cicer species. Chickpea is traditionally spring-sown, while its wild relatives germinate in the autumn and develop in the winter. It has been hypothesized that the human-directed shift of domesticated chickpea to summer production was an attempt to escape the devastating Ascochyta disease caused by Didymella rabiei. We...
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