Moritz, Kim
- Institutionen för ekologi, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
Sammanfattning
There are many examples of dioecious plants where either males or females are more severely or frequently attacked by fungal diseases. Species of Salicaceae and Silene are the best-studied examples. In a recent paper (Moritz et al. 2016: Ecol. Evol.), we surveyed studies where fungal infections are plant sex-biased and found evidence for female biases is nine, and male biases in six, out of thirteen plant-pathogen species pairs investigated. We now need to ask which plant and fungus traits are responsible for this bias. Possible candidates include plant size, chemical or structural defences in plant tissues, indirect defences (e.g., competition for leaf surface space between pathogens and non-pathogenic organisms) and the type of plant tissue that the fungus infects.
Publicerad i
Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift
2016, volym: 110, nummer: 6, sidor: 388-389
SLU författare
Björkman, Christer
- Institutionen för ekologi, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
- Institutionen för ekologi, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
Stenberg, Johan A.
- Institutionen för växtskyddsbiologi, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
- Institutionen för växtskyddsbiologi, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
UKÄ forskningsämne
Evolutionsbiologi
Ekologi
Botanik
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