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The incidence of infection withSpongospora subterranea was studied in the non tuber-bearingSolanum brevidens andS. etuberosum and the tuber-bearingS. acaule, S. sucrense andS. tuberosum cvs Olympia and Pito. Shoot cuttings were grown in soil naturally infested withS. subterranea, or the roots were inoculated with a zoospore suspension. Logit models were used to analyse the data. The incidence ofS. subterranea was higher in plants inoculated with zoospore suspension than in those grown in infested soil (odds ratio (OR) 10.65). Ageing the inoculum reduced the incidence of infection in the plants (OR 0.30) without altering the interspecific differences. The ORs of infection (compared to cv. Olympia) were 0.07, 0.29, 0.60 and 2.88 forS. acaule, S. sucrense, S. brevidens andS. etuberosum. OnlyS. acaule was significantly more resistant to infection than cv. Olympia. No infection was detected in cv. Pito.
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Mäkäräinen, E., Rita, H., Teperi, E. et al. Resistance toSpongospora subterranea in tuber-bearing and non tuber-bearingSolanum spp.. Potato Res 37, 123–127 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02358712
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