Evaluation of cover crops in reducing Spongospora subterranea inoculum through qPCR and microscopy assays
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Abstract
Cover crops have been used for years as an effective practice to manage soil-borne pathogens. Beside their other beneficial properties in enhancing soil quality and fertility, they can suppress soil-borne pathogens and reduce their populations in the soil. Spongospora subterranea is a soil-borne obligate biotrophic plasmodiophorid that causes powdery scab on potato tubers and gall formation on roots. Powdery scab tuber lesions are filled with resting spores (sporosori) and reduce potato quality and marketability. S. subterranea also vectors Potato mop-top virus, which causes necrotic arcs and ...
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