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Spatiotemporal Characterization of Sclerotinia Crown Rot Epidemics in Pyrethrum

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  • Sclerotinia crown rot, caused by Sclerotinia minor and S. sclerotiorum, is a disease of pyrethrum in Australia that may cause substantial decline in plant density. The spatiotemporal characteristics of the disease were quantified in 14 fields during three growing seasons. Fitting the binary power law to disease incidence provided slope (b = 1.063) and intercept (ln(A[subscript p]) = 0.669) estimates significantly (P ≤ 0.0001) greater than 1 and 0, respectively, indicating spatial aggregation at the sampling unit scale that was dependent upon disease incidence. Covariate analyses indicated that application of fungicides did not significantly influence these estimates. Spatial autocorrelation and spatial analysis by distance indices indicated that spatial aggregation above the sampling unit scale was limited to 20 and 17% of transects analyzed, respectively. The range of significant aggregation was limited primarily to neighboring sampling units only. Simple temporal disease models failed to adequately describe disease progress, due to a decline in disease incidence in spring. The relationships between disease incidence at the scales of individual plants within quadrats and quadrats within a field was modeled using four predictors of sample size. The choice of the specific incidence–incidence relationship influenced the classification of disease incidence as greater than or less than 2% of plants, a provisional commercial threshold for fungicide application. Together, these studies indicated that epidemics of Sclerotinia crown rot were dominated by small-scale aggregation of disease. Larger scale patterns of diseased plants, when present, were associated with severe disease outbreaks. The spatial and temporal analyses were suggestive of disease epidemics being associated with localized primary inoculum and other factors that favor disease development at a small scale.
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  • Scott, J. B., Gent, D. H., Pethybridge, S. J., & Hay, F. S. (2014). Spatiotemporal Characterization of Sclerotinia Crown Rot Epidemics in Pyrethrum. Plant Disease, 98(2), 267-274. doi:10.1094/PDIS-07-13-0692-RE
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  • Funding for this research was provided by the Botanical Resources Australia–Agricultural Services Pty Ltd. (BRA), the United States Department of Agriculture–Agricultural Research Service CRIS 5358-21000-035-00, and the Australian Research Council (ARC) as part of the ARC-Linkage program (project LP100100529).
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