Estimating the delay between host infection and disease (incubation period) and assessing its significance to the epidemiology of plant diseases.

ABSTRACT: Knowledge of the incubation period of infectious diseases (time between host infection and expression of disease symptoms) is crucial to our epidemiological understanding and the design of appropriate prevention and control policies. Plant diseases cause substantial damage to agricultural and arboricultural systems, but there is still very little information about how the incubation period varies within host populations. In this paper, we focus on the incubation period of soilborne plant pathogens, which are difficult to detect as they spread and infect the hosts underground and above-ground symptoms occur considerably later. We conducted experiments on Rhizoctonia solani in sugar beet, as an example patho-system, and used modelling approaches to estimate the incubation period distribution

SUBMITTER: Leclerc M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3899291 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature