Abstract
The spread and effect on plant growth of blue mould disease of tobacco was measured on cv. Virginia Gold and SO1 under controlled conditions. The factors considered were the effect of three pre-inoculation temperatures on response to post-inoculation temperature and the direct effects of shade under three temperature regimes. Different pre-inoculation temperatures did not modify significantly the response to inoculation at three post-inoculation temperatures. As post-inoculation temperature increased, the amount of stem mould decreased and the sizes of both healthy and inoculated plants increased. The effects of pre-inoculation temperature on plant growth persisted to the end of the experiments. Only for the stem length of healthy plants was there a significant interaction with post-inoculation temperature, and even then the stem length increased for all post-inoculation temperatures. Under the two higher temperature regimes shaded plants were smaller than unshaded. Shaded and unshaded plants held at the same temperature were equally susceptible to blue mould.
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Claims 7
Claim · model-written summary
Pre-inoculation temperature did not significantly modify the response to inoculation across post-inoculation temperatures.
- Taxon
- tobacco
Nicotiana tabacumt0
- Treatment
- Different pre-inoculation temperaturese0
- Outcome
- response to inoculatione0
- Direction
- did not modify significantlye0
- Comparator
- three post-inoculation temperaturese0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Different pre-inoculation temperatures did not modify significantly the response to inoculation at three post-inoculation temperatures.”
t0“tobacco”
Claim · model-written summary
Stem mould decreased as post-inoculation temperature increased.
- Taxon
- tobacco
Nicotiana tabacumt0
- Treatment
- post-inoculation temperaturee0
- Interactor
- Peronospora tabacina Adam
Peronospora tabacinat1pathogen - Outcome
- amount of stem moulde0
- Direction
- decreasede0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“As post-inoculation temperature increased, the amount of stem mould decreased”
t0“tobacco”
t1“Peronospora tabacina Adam”
Claim · model-written summary
Healthy and inoculated plants grew larger as post-inoculation temperature increased.
- Taxon
- tobacco
Nicotiana tabacumt0
- Treatment
- post-inoculation temperaturee0
- Outcome
- sizes of both healthy and inoculated plantse0
- Direction
- increasede0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“As post-inoculation temperature increased, the amount of stem mould decreased and the sizes of both healthy and inoculated plants increased.”
t0“tobacco”
Claim · model-written summary
Pre-inoculation temperature effects on plant growth lasted until the experiments ended.
- Taxon
- tobacco
Nicotiana tabacumt0
- Outcome
- effects of pre-inoculation temperature on plant growth persisted to the end of the experimentse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The effects of pre-inoculation temperature on plant growth persisted to the end of the experiments.”
t0“tobacco”
Claim · model-written summary
Only healthy plant stem length showed a significant interaction with post-inoculation temperature and increased at every post-inoculation temperature.
- Taxon
- tobacco
Nicotiana tabacumt0
- Treatment
- post-inoculation temperaturee0
- Outcome
- stem length of healthy plantse0
- Direction
- increasede0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Only for the stem length of healthy plants was there a significant interaction with post-inoculation temperature, and even then the stem length increased for all post-inoculation temperatures.”
t0“tobacco”
Claim · model-written summary
Shaded plants were smaller than unshaded plants under the two higher temperature regimes.
- Taxon
- tobacco
Nicotiana tabacumt0
- Treatment
- shadede0
- Outcome
- plantse0
- Direction
- smallere0
- Qualifier
- two higher temperature regimese0
- Comparator
- unshadede0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Under the two higher temperature regimes shaded plants were smaller than unshaded.”
t0“tobacco”
Claim · model-written summary
At the same temperature, shaded and unshaded plants were equally susceptible to blue mould.
- Taxon
- tobacco
Nicotiana tabacumt0
- Treatment
- Shadede0
- Interactor
- Peronospora tabacina Adam
Peronospora tabacinat1pathogen - Outcome
- susceptible to blue moulde0
- Direction
- equallye0
- Comparator
- unshadede0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“Shaded and unshaded plants held at the same temperature were equally susceptible to blue mould.”
t0“tobacco”
t1“Peronospora tabacina Adam”
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