The relative tolerances of wild and cultivated oats to infection by Erysiphe graminis f.sp. avenae. I. The effects of infection on vegetative growth and yield
1996
Sabri, N. | Clarke, D.D.
The effects of infection by the powdery mildew fungus Erysiphe graminis f.sp avenae were studied in one line of wild oat (Avena fatua), and two cultivars, Lustre and Peniarth, of cultivated oat (A. sativa to determine if the wild oat was more tolerant of infection than the two cultivated oats. Seven weeks after inoculation, when the plants were 10-weeks-old with fully expanded flag leaves, the fungus had colonized approx. 40% of the leaf surfaces of wild oat and cv. Lustre but only about 30% of the leaf surfaces of cv. Peniarth. The lower leaves of cv. Peniarth were at least as susceptible, if not more so, than those of the other two lines but the upper leaves, including the flag leaf, were much more resistant. Although cv. Peniarth supported the production of about half the number of mildew conidia as the wild oat and cv. Lustre its total dry weight and grain yield were reduced to the greatest extent. The wild oat was clearly much more tolerant of mildew infection than cv. Peniarth and slightly more tolerant than cv. Lustre. The greater tolerances of the wild oat and cv. Lustre compared to cv. Peniarth appeared to be due to the lower sensitivities of their metabolism to the activities of the mildew fungus.
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