ArticleEnvironmental microbiology2021
Mixed infections alter transmission potential in a fungal plant pathogen.
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- Mapping of plant-fungal interactions on agriculture perception: a bibliometric analysis and systematic review.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Pooled it
- Virulent strains of Zymoseptoria tritici suppress the host immune response and facilitate the success of avirulent strains in mixed infections.PLoS pathogens · 2023Article
- Comparative Analysis of the Expression of Resistance-Related Genes Respond to the Diversity Foliar Pathogens of Pseudostellaria heterophylla.Current microbiology · 2023Article
- How large and diverse are field populations of fungal plant pathogens? The case ofEvolutionary applications · 2022Article
- Asexual reproductive potential trumps virulence as a predictor of competitive ability in mixed infections.Environmental microbiology · 2022Article
- Soil composition and plant genotype determine benzoxazinoid-mediated plant-soil feedbacks in cereals.Plant, cell & environment · 2021Article
- The identification of a transposon affecting the asexual reproduction of the wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici.Molecular plant pathology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Infections by more than one strain of a pathogen predominate under natural conditions. Mixed infections can have significant, though often unpredictable, consequences for overall virulence, pathogen transmission and evolution. However, effects of mixed infection on disease development in plants often remain unclear and the critical factors that determine the outcome of mixed infections remain unknown. The fungus Zymoseptoria tritici forms genetically diverse infections in wheat fields. Here, for a range of pathogen traits, we experimentally decompose the infection process to determine how the outcomes and consequences of mixed infections are mechanistically realized. Different strains of Z. tritici grow in close proximity and compete in the wheat apoplast, resulting in reductions in growth of individual strains and in pathogen reproduction. We observed different outcomes of competition at different stages of the infection. Overall, more virulent strains had higher competitive ability during host colonization, and less virulent strains had higher transmission potential. We showed that within-host competition can have a major effect on infection dynamics and pathogen population structure in a pathogen and host genotype-specific manner. Consequently, mixed infections likely have a major effect on the development of septoria tritici blotch epidemics and the evolution of virulence in Z. tritici.
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