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Spatiotemporal distribution of tomato plants naturally infected with bacterial canker in greenhouses

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The distribution of plants with tomato bacterial canker within a greenhouse was analyzed using Morisita’s binomial index of dispersion, I B , to assess spatial distribution patterns. The distribution patterns of diseased plants were similar in four commercial greenhouses. The degree of clustering of added together diseased plants based on the I B index did not increase with time, but the statistical significance of the cluster distribution did increase, suggesting that new independent cluster points had formed during the investigation. Therefore, a scattered pattern of potentially or apparently diseased plants caused by primary inoculum from residual plants in the soil emerged with time.

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    Akira Kawaguchi, Koji Tanina & Koji Inoue

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Kawaguchi, A., Tanina, K. & Inoue, K. Spatiotemporal distribution of tomato plants naturally infected with bacterial canker in greenhouses. J Gen Plant Pathol 79, 46–50 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10327-012-0416-4

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