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Title: CONTRASTING GENOTYPIC DIVERSITY IN SOIL BORNE VS. AERIAL PHYTOPHTHORA INFESTANS POPULATIONS FROM CENTRAL MEXICO

Author
item FERNANDEZ-PAVIA, S - IIAF-UMSNH, MEXICO
item Grunwald, Niklaus - Nik
item GARAY-SERRANO, E - PICTIPAPA, MEXICO
item BELMAR-DIAZ, C - PICTIPAPA, MEXICO
item DIAZ-VALASIS, M - INIFAP, MEXICO
item CADENA-HINOJOSA, M - INIFAP, MEXICO
item RODRIGUEZ-ALVARADO, G - IIAF-UMSNH, MEXICO

Submitted to: Phytopathology
Publication Type: Abstract Only
Publication Acceptance Date: 1/1/2003
Publication Date: 6/1/2003
Citation: FERNANDEZ-PAVIA, S.P., GRUNWALD, N.J., GARAY-SERRANO, E., BELMAR-DIAZ, C., DIAZ-VALASIS, M., CADENA-HINOJOSA, M., RODRIGUEZ-ALVARADO, G. CONTRASTING GENOTYPIC DIVERSITY IN SOIL BORNE VS. AERIAL PHYTOPHTHORA INFESTANS POPULATIONS FROM CENTRAL MEXICO. PHYTOPATHOLOGY. 2003. 93:S25.

Interpretive Summary:

Technical Abstract: Phytophthora infestans oospores have been found in different soil types in central Mexico. While genotypic diversity has been extensively studied in foliar populations, soil borne populations have not been characterized. Genotypic diversity was compared between P. infestans populations from soil borne vs. aerial inoculum according to mating type and isozyme genotype (Gpi and Pep). Isolates were obtained from soil (oospore populations) and diseased foliage collected in potato fields in central Mexico. Both mating types were present in all populations, but the A1 mating type was more frequent in soil populations. Frequencies of multilocus genotypes varied among regions and between soil borne and foliar inoculum from the same area. Novel genotypes were found in all soils. Preliminary data confirms the hypothesis that genotypic diversity is higher in populations derived from oospores than from aerial inoculum.