Evaluating the contribution of historical and contemporary temperature to the oospore production of self-fertile Phytophthora infestans.

ABSTRACT: Reproductive systems play an important role in the ecological function of species, but little is known about how climate change, such as global warming, may affect the reproductive systems of microbes. In this study, 116 Phytophthora infestans isolates sampled from five different altitudes along a mountain were evaluated under five temperature regimes to determine the effects of historical and experimental temperature on the reproductive system of the pathogen. Both altitude, a proxy for historical pathogen adaptation to temperature, and temperature used in the experiment affected the sexual reproduction of the pathogen, with experimental temperature, that is, contemporary temperature, playing a role several times more important than historical temperature. Furthermore, the potentia

SUBMITTER: Waheed A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10824702 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature