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- Title
Distribution of race-specific resistance against Bremia lactucae in natural populations of Lactuca serriola.
- Authors
Petrželová, Irena; Lebeda, Aleš
- Abstract
metapopulation approach was applied to population studies of a common weed, Lactuca serriola (prickly lettuce). Seedlings grown from seed samples collected from 752 individual L. serriola plants in 50 populations occurring along an east-to-west transect across four European countries (Czech Republic, Germany, Netherlands and United Kingdom) were screened for resistance to 10 common races of Bremia lactucae. Based on the recorded reaction patterns, host individuals were characterized into specific resistance (R-) phenotypes. Diversity of R-phenotypes, their variation and distribution among and within European populations, was evaluated at different spatial scales, i.e. from a metapopulation involving the entire European study area to individual plants occurring in local populations. Generally, European populations of L. serriola have been shown to be highly susceptible to B. lactucae. However, large variation in L. serriola resistance was found both among and within individual countries. There was a clear gradient of increasing uniformity of race-specificity moving from central to western Europe, as well as a slight decrease in the diversity of R-phenotypes. Populations in the United Kingdom were the most divergent in terms of resistance structure from other geographic regions, and also were the most homogeneous, most likely a consequence of the relatively greater degree of spatial isolation from other regions. Metapopulation, inter- and intra-population variation in host resistance is discussed from the viewpoint of occurrence of race-specific interactions in this wild plant pathosystem.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; EUROPE; METAPOPULATION (Ecology); LACTUCA; BREMIA lactucae; PHENOTYPES; PATHOGENIC microorganisms; PLANT variation; BIOLOGICAL variation
- Publication
European Journal of Plant Pathology, 2011, Vol 129, Issue 2, p233
- ISSN
0929-1873
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10658-010-9627-8