Claim · model-written summary
Leucadendron may be susceptible to Pythium infection.
- Taxon
- Leucadendron
Leucadendrone0 - Outcome
- susceptible to Pythium infectione0
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Verbatim
e0“Brunia (Bruniceae), Leucadendron (Proteaceae) and Erica (Ericaceae), all emblematic and dominant genera within the diverse fynbos community, may be susceptible to Pythium infection”
Title
ANNA L. JACOBSEN; FRANCOIS ROETS; SHAYNE M. JACOBS; et al. Austral Ecology 2011. doi:10.1111/j.1442-9993.2011.02268.x
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Observation Healthy and moderately stressed plants had predawn water potential above turgor loss.
- Association Plants with over 60% crown dieback had water potentials as low as −12 MPa.
- Association Pythium was isolated from root vascular tissue of all stressed plants and absent from healthy plants.
- Mechanism Pathogen effects were considered the proximate cause of stress.
- Mechanism Extreme water stress was considered the ultimate cause of death.
- Association Brunia may be susceptible to Pythium infection.
- Association Erica may be susceptible to Pythium infection.