Predicting the effects of climate change on the cross-scale epidemiological dynamics of a fungal plant pathogen.

ABSTRACT: The potential for climate change to exacerbate the burden of human infectious diseases is increasingly recognized, but its effects on infectious diseases of plants have received less attention. Understanding the impacts of climate on the epidemiological dynamics of plant pathogens is imperative, as these organisms play central roles in natural ecosystems and also pose a serious threat to agricultural production and food security. We use the fungal 'flax rust' pathogen (Melampsora lini) and its subalpine wildflower host Lewis flax (Linum lewisii) to investigate how climate change might affect the dynamics of fungal plant pathogen epidemics using a combination of empirical and modeling approaches. Our results suggest that climate change will initially slow transmission at both the within- an

SUBMITTER: Miller IF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9437057 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature