Claim · model-written summary
Altitude correlated linearly with wheat rust prevalence.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivumt0 - Interactor
- rustt0pathogen
- Outcome
- disease prevalencee0
- Setting
- altitudee0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentComparatorDirectionValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“show a linear correlation between altitude and disease prevalence”
t0“wheat rust”
Title
M. Meyer; N. Bacha; T. Tesfaye; et al. PLoS ONE 2021. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0245697
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Observation Mean stripe rust incidence was 44%.
- Observation Mean stem rust incidence was 34%.
- Observation Mean leaf rust incidence was 18%.
- Observation Recurrent wheat rust outbreaks caused estimated annual losses of tens of millions of US dollars.
- Association Rust prevalence rose markedly on Digalu after new rust races entered Ethiopia.
- Observation Disease risk hotspots were found for all three wheat rusts.
- Observation Stem rust prevalence showed a pronounced north-south trend.
- Observation Wheat rust disease levels increased sigmoidally through the season.
- Observation Wheat rust levels varied strongly between years.
- Method / resource A logistic curve predicted stem rust satisfactorily in some years.
- Method / resource The logistic curve failed for complex stem rust outbreak patterns in other years.
- Method / resource The logistic curve failed to predict stripe and leaf rust occurrence.