Claim · model-written summary
Sphaerulina musiva relative abundance was highest at day 10 in soils with reduced resident microbial diversity.
- Taxon
- Populus trichocarpa
Populus trichocarpae0
- Treatment
- soils with reduced resident microbial diversitye2
- Interactor
- Sphaerulina musivaSphaerulina musivae0pathogen
- Outcome
- S. musiva relative abundancee2
- Direction
- higheste2
- Qualifier
- at day 10 postinoculatione2
- Setting
- growth chambere1
Verbatim
e0“Sphaerulina musiva is a fungal pathogen responsible for defoliating leaf spots and fatal stem cankers on Populus trichocarpa and hybrid Populus trees”
e1“we conducted a growth chamber experiment in which field soils that differed in microbial diversity were inoculated with two genetically distinct S. musiva isolates”
e2“S. musiva relative abundance was the highest at day 10 postinoculation in soils with reduced resident microbial diversity”
Title
Microbial Diversity Limits Belowground Colonization of Sphaerulina musiva
Aaron J. Onufrak; Alyssa A. Carrell; Dana L. Carper; et al. PhytoFrontiers™ 2026. doi:10.1094/phytofr-07-25-0065-r