Wilts Flashcards
What are the two main disease assessments?
- Qualitative
2. Quantitative
What is a qualitative assessment?
Give an example…
Incidence data, easiest to perform, yes and no questions.
Most useful when disease is uniform or any disease is detrimental, however it is statistically limited.
What is a quantitative assessment?
Give an example…
More difficult, more important what disease is not uniform.
Visual acuity is a problem, ability to distinguish differences.
What is visual acuity?
Percent of leaf area…
More repeatable and more reflective of visual abilities.
Non linear scale
Normalizes variance instabilities
Single disease assessment…
example
An assessment with an endpoint, for example, harvest data, sugar boots to assess roots.
Multiple Assessments….
example
- Area Under Disease Progress Curve(AUDPC)
- Models
- Generalized Variance Models
Qualitative- single assessment example
Fruit and cosmetic diseases marketable at the end of harvest
Qualitative- multiple assessment example
Rate of infection of wilt disease in an orchard.
Quantitative- single assessment example
When the assessment is destructive, for example assessing root rot damage for sugar beet plants.
Quantitative- multiple assessment example
Leaf spot, the amount of leaf tissue lost over time so assess photosynthesis.
List 3 main wilt diseases discussed in lecture…
- Fusarium oxysporum f. sp.
- Verticillium dahliae and V. albo-atrum
- Cephalosporium gramineum
5 main wilt symptoms
- Vascular necrosis (systemic)
- Epinasty (downturning of leaves)
- Sectoring necrosis (portion of section dies)
- Foliar asymmetry (leaf turn)
- Death
Infection process for Fusarium Oxysporum?
- Similar to root rot, goes in to the vascular elements of the plant.
- No longer moving by hyphae, and produces microconidia and moves through water in the plant.
- Live cells try to help regulate vascular system to fight off infection by producing Tyloses
What causes wilting?
Conidia, mycelium, toxins, gums and tyloses restrict water movement. After wilt the pathogen invades other tissues and starts to sporulate and produce chlamydospores (asex. surv. spores) for overwintering.
Fusarium oxysporum f. sp.
characteristics…
Systemic
Highly specialized (limited host range)
***Warm weather pathogen (southern states and house plants)