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The relative importance of various components (latent period, uredium area, infectious period, infectibility, sporulation and weather) affecting the progress of leaf rust (Puccinia recondita) in wheat, in the field, was determined by calculating the effect of equivalent changes in the individual components. The effect was calculated in terms of the period of delay in the epidemic reaching 100 per cent severity of leaf rust. Only four components viz., latent period, infectibility, sporulation and weather were found to be important. Further, it was found that these four components were equally important and that they collectively determined the rate of progress of leaf rust in an additive manner.
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Kulkarni, R.N., Chopra, V.L. & Singh, D. Relative importance of components affecting the leaf rust progress curve in wheat. Theoret. Appl. Genetics 62, 205–207 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00276238
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