Claim · model-written summary
Decreased hyphal density and diameter in darkness may explain suppression of lesion development in cucumber leaves.
- Taxon
- cucumber
Cucumis sativust0 - Outcome
- suppression of lesion developmente5
- Qualifier
- decrease in hyphal density and diameter in darknesse5
Verbatim
t0“Cucumber Downy Mildew Fungus”
e5“It is speculated that such decrease in hyphal density and diameter in darkness may affect the suppression of lesion development by the dark treatment for the infected cucumber leaves”
Title
Effect of Light and Darkness on the Hyphal Growth of Cucumber Downy Mildew Fungus
Tadaoki INABA; Toshihiro KAJIWARA Japanese Journal of Phytopathology 1972. doi:10.3186/jjphytopath.38.25
Other claims from this paper (3)
- Observation Hyphae and haustoria in infected cucumber tissue increased in number from 2 to 3 days after inoculation in light and in dark.
- Intervention effect Hyphae and haustoria were about half as numerous in dark condition as in light condition.
- Intervention effect Hyphal diameter was lower in darkness (4.6μ) than in light (5.4μ).