The Hydrophobin Gene Family Confers a Fitness Trade-off between Spore Dispersal and Host Colonization in Penicillium expansum [PDF]
mBio, 2022 Hydrophobins are small amphipathic surface proteins found exclusively in fungi. In filamentous ascomycetes, one conserved role of a subset of hydrophobins is their requirement for spore dispersal.
Dianiris Luciano-Rosario +5 more
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Weather Variables Associated with Spore Dispersal of Lecanosticta acicola Causing Pine Needle Blight in Northern Spain [PDF]
Plants, 2021 In the last decade, the impact of needle blight fungal pathogens on the health status of forests in northern Spain has marked a turning point in forest production systems based on Pinus radiata species.
Nebai Mesanza +10 more
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Cultivar architecture modulates spore dispersal by rain splash: A new perspective to reduce disease progression in cultivar mixtures. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Cultivar mixtures can be used to improve the sustainability of disease management within farming systems by growing cultivars that differ in their disease resistance level in the same field.
Tiphaine Vidal +5 more
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The fate of the missing spores--patterns of realized dispersal beyond the closest vicinity of a sporulating moss. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 It is well-known that many species with small diaspores can disperse far during extended temporal scales (many years). However, studies on short temporal scales usually only cover short distances (in, e.g., bryophytes up to 15 m).
Niklas Lönnell +3 more
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Long-distance wind-dispersal of spores in a fungal plant pathogen: estimation of anisotropic dispersal kernels from an extensive field experiment. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Given its biological significance, determining the dispersal kernel (i.e., the distribution of dispersal distances) of spore-producing pathogens is essential. Here, we report two field experiments designed to measure disease gradients caused by sexually-
Adrien Rieux +8 more
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Diurnal Release of Airborne Pathogen Spores in Greenhouses via the Synergistic Effects of Relative Humidity and Wind [PDF]
Advanced ScienceThe occurrence of diseases during greenhouse vegetable cultivation is becoming increasingly severe. Humidity and wind are important factors affecting the spread of many pathogenic fungal spores, but it remains difficult to explain the phenomenon of rapid
Jiayi Ma +8 more
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Bimodal spore release heights in the water column enhance local retention and population connectivity of bull kelp, Nereocystis luetkeana [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionDispersal of reproductive propagules determines recruitment patterns and connectivity among populations and can influence how populations respond to major disturbance events. Dispersal distributions can depend on propagule release strategies.
Nicholas P. Burnett +8 more
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Population genetic consequences of habitat fragmentation in ectomycorrhizal fungi with different dispersal mechanisms: implications from ice-aged relict forests across the Japanese archipelago [PDF]
BMC Ecology and EvolutionBackground Recent human activities have caused extensive forest fragmentation, which can profoundly affect the population genetic structure of soil microbes, as has been well documented for plants and animals. However, such information remains scarce for
Takahiko Koizumi, Kazuhide Nara
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Morphological variations and adhesive distribution: a cross-species examination in Colletotrichum conidia [PDF]
Frontiers in Fungal BiologyColletotrichum is a globally significant genus of plant pathogens known for causing anthracnose across a diverse array of hosts. Notably, Colletotrichum graminicola is a pathogen affecting maize.
Caleb Oliver Bedsole +6 more
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Dispersal in microbes: fungi in indoor air are dominated by outdoor air and show dispersal limitation at short distances [PDF]
ISME Journal, 2013 The indoor microbiome is a complex system that is thought to depend on dispersal from the outdoor biome and the occupants' microbiome combined with selective pressures imposed by the occupants' behaviors and the building itself.
Rachel I Adams, John W Taylor
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