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Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cepae dynamics: in-plant multiplication and crop sequence simulations

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To reduce Fusarium Basal Rot caused by Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cepae (Foc) through crop rotation, plant species should be selected based on Foc multiplication in their roots. Foc multiplication rates in 13 plant species were tested in a greenhouse. All plant species enabled Foc multiplication. The lowest Foc levels (cfu g−1 dry root) were found for wheat, sunflower, cowpea and millet, the highest for black bean. The highest Foc levels per plant were calculated for sudan grass. These data were used to calibrate the model Pf = Pi/(α + βPi) relating final (Pf) and initial (Pi) Foc levels in the soil. The rate of population increase at low Pi (1/α) was highest for onion and black oat and smallest for sunflower. The pathogen carrying capacity (1/β) was highest for black oat and black bean, and lowest for wheat, cowpea and foxtail millet. Foc soil population dynamics was simulated for crop sequences by concatenating Pi-Pf values, considering instantaneous or gradual pathogen release after harvest. Different soil Foc populations were attained after reaching steady states. Foc populations in the sequence onion –foxtail millet - wheat – cowpea were 67 % lower than in the sequence onion – sudan grass - black oat - black beans. In this work, by combining detailed greenhouse experiments with modelling, we were able to screen crops for their ability to increase Foc population and to explore potential crop sequences that may limit pathogen build-up.

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Acknowledgments

We thank Dr. ir. Joeke Postma for her advice during the development of benomyl-resistant Fusarium oxysoprum f.sp. cepae (Foc) isolates, and Kirsten Oude Leferink, Kim van Groningen and Dine Volker (Wageningen University) for their laboratory work with the Foc isolates. We thank Beatriz Dini, Alfredo Fernandez and Sebastian Aranda (INIA - Las Brujas Research Station) for their assistance in the greenhouse experiments. The first author thanks the Alban Programme of the European Union (Fellowship E07D401358UY), the Erasmus Mundus – Monesia scholarship program, and The National Agricultural Research Institute of Uruguay (INIA) for their financial support. Partial results of this research were presented at 19th ISTRO Conference, September 24–28 2012, Montevideo, Uruguay.

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    Carolina Leoni

  2. Farming Systems Ecology, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    Carolina Leoni, Maria de Vries & Walter A. H. Rossing

  3. Biometris, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    Cajo J. F. ter Braak

  4. Emerging Pathogens Institute and Department of Plant Pathology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA

    Ariena H. C. van Bruggen

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Leoni, C., de Vries, M., ter Braak, C.J.F. et al. Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cepae dynamics: in-plant multiplication and crop sequence simulations. Eur J Plant Pathol 137, 545–561 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10658-013-0268-6

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