Article
Is there a trade-off between host generalism and aggressiveness across pathogen populations? A synthesis of the global potato and tomato blight lesion growth data
2024-09-01
Abstract excerpt
Phytophthora infestans populations and lineages vary widely in their specificity to potato and tomato hosts, from specialisation to generalism. However, generalists that displace others and became dominant on both hosts are relatively uncommon. Generalists may have lower fitness compared to specialists on the host of the latter, which could explain their coexistence at many locations. Lesion size is an aggressiven...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 9dc7bb5c-586c-5aa8-953e-1295eab67a9e
- DOI
- 10.1007/s10658-023-02682-3
