Variation in virulence and aggressiveness among pathotypes of Sclerospora graminicola on pearl millet

Thakur, R P and Rao, V P (1997) Variation in virulence and aggressiveness among pathotypes of Sclerospora graminicola on pearl millet. Indian Phytopathology, 50 (1). pp. 41-47. ISSN 0367-973X

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Abstract

Five pathotypes of S. graminicola, specific to Pennisetum glaucum genotypes, were evaluated for virulence (a qualitative measure of the relative capacity of an isolate to infect a host genotype), aggressiveness (a quantitative measure of the infection causing potential of an isolate, calculated as disease incidence), and virulence index (a quantitative measure of virulence, measured as disease incidence×latent period-1) on a set of P. glaucum genotypes in a greenhouse. The pathotypes were selected from a field population of the pathogen through a number of successive asexual generations on specific host genotypes. These were named as pathotype, Path 1 (host NHB 3), Path 2 (BJ 104), Path 3 (MBH 110), Path 4 (852B) and Path 5 (a field population from a mixture of NHB 3 and 7042S). The pathotypes differed significantly in virulence, aggressiveness and virulence index on the host genotypes. Highly significant (P<0.001) pathotype×host genotype interaction effects for virulence, aggressiveness and virulence index suggested the existence of host-pathogen specificity in the P. glaucum-S. graminicola system. Differential interactions for virulence were evident on 8 of the 14 host genotypes. All 5 pathotypes were moderately virulent (3.75-7.03 virulence index) and less aggressive (28-46% incidence) on ICMP 85410 suggesting the presence of non-pathotype-specific resistance which could be more stable. It is concluded that the other P. glaucum genotypes (IP 18292, IP 18293, 7042R, P 7-4 and P 310-17), to which the pathotypes were either avirulent or less virulent, can serve as sources of stable resistance

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Uncontrolled Keywords:	Sclerospora graminicola, pearl millet, virulence, aggressive
Subjects:	Mandate crops > Millets
Depositing User:	Ms K Syamalamba
Date Deposited:	02 Nov 2011 07:44
Last Modified:	02 Nov 2011 07:46
URI:	http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/3536
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