Claim · model-written summary
The slime mold Labyrinthula, associated with the 1930s eelgrass wasting disease, was isolated from eelgrass tissue, as were other possibly infectious microorganisms.
- Taxon
- eelgrass
Zostera marinae0 - Organ / stage
- tissuee0
- Interactor
- LabyrinthulaLabyrinthulae0pathogen
- Outcome
- isolated from eelgrass tissuee0
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Verbatim
e0“The slime mold Labyrinthula, associated with the 1930's eelgrass wasting disease that devasted populations on both sides of the North Atlantic, was isolated from eelgrass tissue”
Title
Recurrence of the eelgrass wasting disease at the border of New Hampshire and Maine, USA
Frederick T. Short; Arthur C. Mathieson; Jonathan Nelson University of New Hampshire Scholars Repository (University of New Hampshire at Manchester) 1986
Other claims from this paper (3)
- Observation Eelgrass Zostera marina populations in the Great Bay Estuary decreased dramatically between 1981 and 1984.
- Mechanism The immediate cause of the eelgrass decline was infection of healthy leaf tissue by a microorganism, not pollution.
- Observation The sequence of infection and die-back was documented in mesocosm and laboratory eelgrass cultures, with conditions analogous to those in the estuary.