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Pathogen populations evolve to greater race complexity in agricultural systems--evidence from analysis of Rhynchosporium secalis virulence data.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Zhan Jiasui, Yang Lina, Zhu Wen, Shang Liping, Newton Adrian C
Abstract excerpt
Fitness cost associated with pathogens carrying unnecessary virulence alleles is the fundamental assumption for preventing the emergence of complex races in plant pathogen populations but this hypothesis has rarely been tested empirically on a temporal and spatial scale which is sufficient to distinguish evolutionary signals from experimental error. We analyzed virulence characteristics of ≈ 1000 isolates of the...
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