Pathogen Propagation Model with Superinfection in Vegetatively Propagated Plants on Lattice Space.

ABSTRACT: Many clonal plants have two reproductive patterns, seed propagation and vegetative propagation. By vegetative propagation, plants reproduce the genetically identical offspring with a low mortality, because resources are supplied from the other individuals through interconnected ramets at vegetative-propagated offspring. However, the ramets transport not only resources but also systemic pathogen. Pathogens evolve to establish and spread widely within the plant population. The superinfection, which is defined as the ability that an established pathogen spreads widely by infecting to already-infected individuals with other strains of a pathogen, is important to the evolution of pathogens. We examine the dynamics of plant reproduction and pathogen propagation considering spatial structure and

SUBMITTER: Sakai Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4858194 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature