Are plant pathogen populations adapted for encounter with their host? A case study of phenological synchrony between oak and an obligate fungal parasite along an altitudinal gradient

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 87-97

  Desprez Loustau, M L ^a   Vitasse, Y ^b   Delzon, S ^b   Capdevielle, X ^a   Marcais B ^c   Kremer, A ^a  

^a UMR 1202 BIOGECO   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

Climate warming; Disease avoidance; Erysiphe alphitoides; Local adaptation; Phenology; Plant pathogen; Quercus; Synchrony

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECIDUOUS TREE; DISEASE CONTROL; FUNGAL DISEASE; LOCAL ADAPTATION; PATHOGEN; PHENOLOGY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SPORULATION; SYNCHRONY;

ADAPTATION; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; OAK; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALTITUDE; ASCOMYCOTA; PLANT DISEASES; QUERCUS; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

ERYSIPHALES; ERYSIPHE ALPHITOIDES; QUERCUS;

EID: 72449183738     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2009.01881.x     Document Type: Article

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