ISSN:
1365-3059
Source:
Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
Topics:
Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
Notes:
In a field study over three successive years (1990-92), quantitative relationships were established between infection by the anthracnose pathogen Colletotrichum gloeosporioides and weather. In order to detect successful spread and infection, groups of healthy seedlings of the tropical pasture legume Stylosanthes scabra were exposed to natural inoculum for 7 h (daytime), 17 h (overnight), 24 h and 48 h and then incubated in environments with different levels of relative humidity (r.h). Infection was generally associated with rainfall, hours r.h. 〉95% and mean hourly r.h. in the 1990 and 1992 seasons with average rainfall. Inoculum availability was an important determinant of the number of infections in the dry 1991 season. Quantitative relationships between infection and weather conditions for the exposure periods in the three seasons were established using multiple regression analysis. A regression equation containing hours of r.h. 〉95%, mean hourly r.h. and temperature was developed from a combined analysis of the 48-h exposure data from 1990 and 1992. A parallelism test showed that the regression equation was equally applicable to infection data in each of the two years.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3059.1995.tb02716.x
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