Biology and Earth Science Faculty Scholarship
Title
Variation and Heritability of Phenology in the Fungus Monilinia vaccinii-corymbosi on Blueberry
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-2000
Publication Title
Phytopathology
Publisher
APS Journals
Keywords
Disease Avoidance, Fungal Adaptation, Quantitative Fungal Genetics, Vaccinium corymbosum
Abstract
The germination of field-collected pseudosclerotia and the development of apothecia from eight New Jersey populations of the mummy berry fungus Monilinia vaccinii-corymbosi were evaluated under controlled conditions in the greenhouse. Development data for apothecia were used to describe the timing of apothecium formation and to estimate broad- and narrow-sense heritabilities of fungal phenology. Mean development times for the formation of apothecia ranged from 35.4 to 54.7 days. The mean development times for populations collected from early-season cv. Weymouth ranged from 35.4 to 39.6 days and were significantly shorter than the development times for three of the four populations collected from late-season cv. Jersey (46.9 to 54.7 days) or for the population collected from mixed stands of cultivated blueberries (42.7 days). The development of populations from late cultivars planted in very close proximity to early cv. Weymouth was early (36.5 to 39.0 days) and not significantly different from the development of populations collected from cv. Weymouth. Phenotypic and genetic variances of apothecium development for individual populations ranged from 18.9 to 44.8 and 7.2 to 30.9, respectively. Broad-sense heritabilities of apothecia development for each fungal population, calculated by partitioning phenotypic variation into genetic and environmental components, ranged from 0.31 to 0.78. Narrow-sense heritabilities of apothecia development, based on parent-offspring regression, ranged from 0.58 to 0.78. These results indicate that populations ofM. vaccinii-corymbosi differ in phenology and that a significant portion of the phenological variation within populations is genetic. Thus, it is plausible to propose that the phenology of apothecium development is a component of fungal fitness and that host phenology can influence the timing of pathogen development.
First Page
390
Last Page
395
Volume
90
Issue
4
Repository Citation
Lehman, Jeffery S. and Oudemans, Peter V., "Variation and Heritability of Phenology in the Fungus Monilinia vaccinii-corymbosi on Blueberry" (2000). Biology and Earth Science Faculty Scholarship. 8.
https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/bio_fac/8
Original Citation
Lehman, J. S., Oudemans, P. V. 2000. Variation and Heritability of Phenology in the Fungus Monilinia vaccinii-corymbosi on Blueberry. Phytopathology 90(4): 390-395.
DOI
10.1094/PHYTO.2000.90.4.390
Version
Publisher's Version
Publisher's Statement
This article is in the public domain and not copyrightable. It may be freely reprinted with customary crediting of the source. The American Phytopathological Society, 2000.
Peer Reviewed
1