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The effects of inoculum load and watering regime on the transmission of Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris from seed to seedlings of cauliflower were investigated. Seed, inoculated with different concentrations of bacteria, was sown in commercial module trays and subjected to four different watering regimes: high frequency overhead spray, low frequency overhead spray, high frequency capillary and low frequency capillary. Visible symptoms were recorded and leaf washings were carried out to detect the pathogen on symptomless plants. The effects of treatments on symptoms and on the proportion of contaminated but symptomless plants was similar. Initially, they were influenced only by the dose of bacteria with little difference between the watering regimes, but later the proportion of plants with symptoms was greater for plants subjected to overhead watering, due to spread and secondary infection. Generalised linear models were fitted to the data relating the proportion of symptomless contaminated plants or the proportion of plants with symptoms, p, to the mean dose of bacteria per seed, d, and the number of overhead waterings, noh. The equations were: p=1−exp(−0.014·d 0.32·noh 0.045) for symptomless contaminated/infected plants and p=1−exp(−0.0056·d 0.44·noh 0.014) for plants with symptoms. These models indicated that the one-hit probability for transmission of the pathogen (i.e. with/without visible symptoms) was 0.014 and for infection (i.e. with visible symptoms) was 0.0056.
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Roberts, S., Hiltunen, L., Hunter, P. et al. Transmission from Seed to Seedling and Secondary Spread of Xanthomonas campestris pv. Campestris in Brassica Transplants: Effects of Dose and Watering Regime. European Journal of Plant Pathology 105, 879–889 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008790306489
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