Investigating the production of sexual resting structures in a plant pathogen reveals unexpected self-fertility and genotype-by-environment effects

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1716-1726

  Tollenaere, C ^a   Laine, A L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Chasmothecia; Genotype by environment interactions; Homothallism; Mating system; Mating type genes; Powdery mildews; Sexual resting structures

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); FUNGAL DISEASE; FUNGUS; GENOTYPE; HERB; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

FINLAND;

ASCOMYCOTA; ERYSIPHALES; PLANTAGO LANCEOLATA; PODOSPHAERA PLANTAGINIS;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CHASMOTHECIA; ENVIRONMENT; FUNGAL MATING TYPE GENE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPE-BY-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS; HOMOTHALLISM; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MATING SYSTEM; MATING-TYPE GENES; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANTAGO; POWDERY MILDEWS; SELF FERTILIZATION; SEXUAL RESTING STRUCTURES;

ADAPTATION; CHASMOTHECIA; GENOTYPE-BY-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS; HOMOTHALLISM; MATING SYSTEM; MATING-TYPE GENES; POWDERY MILDEWS; SEXUAL RESTING STRUCTURES;

ASCOMYCOTA; ENVIRONMENT; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; GENOTYPE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; PLANTAGO; SELF-FERTILIZATION;

EID: 84881028643     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12169     Document Type: Article

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