Claim · model-written summary
Esca expression increased relative abundance of Fomitiporia mediterranea.
- Treatment
- esca expression conditionse0
- Interactor
- Fomitiporia mediterranea
Fomitiporia mediterraneae0pathogen - Outcome
- relative abundance of Fomitiporia mediterraneae0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Verbatim
e0“Under esca expression conditions, only the relative abundance of Fomitiporia mediterranea and gene expression involved in wood degradation, competition, detoxification, and growth increased”
e1“Both esca and drought decreased grapevine transpiration”
Title
Fungal Pathogen Activity and Stress‐Dependent Responses of Grapevine Wood to Esca and Drought
Marie Chambard; Dario Cantù; Giovanni Bortolami; et al. Physiologia Plantarum 2026. doi:10.1111/ppl.70914
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Association Esca reduced grapevine transpiration.
- Intervention effect Drought reduced grapevine transpiration.
- Observation Esca and drought produced distinct transcriptomic and metabolic signatures through different underlying mechanisms.
- Observation Both stresses activated phenylpropanoid and stilbenoid synthesis pathways.
- Association Across fungi, putative virulence factors increased significantly under esca and drought.
- Association Drought increased relative abundance of Phaeomoniella chlamydospora.
- Association Under drought, fungal expression for antioxidative mechanisms, growth, and reproduction increased.
- Association Under esca expression, fungal gene expression for wood degradation, competition, detoxification, and growth increased.
- Mechanism Induced grapevine defenses, lower transpiration, and low F. mediterranea abundance and virulence may explain drought inhibition of esca leaf symptoms.