Article
Impact of glandular hair exudates on infection of chickpea by Ascochyta rabiei.
2005-01-01
Abstract excerpt
Ascochyta blight, a fungal disease caused by Ascochyta rabiei (Pass.) Labr. (teleomorph Didymella rabiei (Kovačevski) v. Arx), is a major constraint to chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) production. An unusual feature of chickpea plants is the secretion of a highly acidic fluid from glandular trichomes. This exudate was shown to promote germination of conidia of A. rabiei at low concentrations (0.012 and 0.06 mg·m...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 9bf565ff-4f69-514a-b0a6-b4339b42a43b
- DOI
- 10.1139/b04-147
