Sentence examples for an alternate host from inspiring English sources

It also serves as an alternate host for insects and pathogenic microorganisms that attack various crops.

Because they provide an alternate host for the white-pine blister rust, it is illegal to grow grossularia in some states where white pine is an important resource.

If the infection is in an alternate host, such as a species of Solanum, which includes ornamental peppers, eggplants and nicotiana, there might be no visible symptoms at all.

Although pests spillover from crop fields into natural vegetation to use marula as an alternate host, biological control in the natural vegetation may eliminate this habitat as a pest reservoir outside the crop season.

European Barberry had itself had become naturalized and, because it was an alternate host to Black Rust Stem, (Puccinia graminis) a serious fungus that attacks all cereal crops, the shrub was actively eradicated by the USDA from farmland in the 1910s.

Collectively, pigs afford many features that favor the "mixing" of a variety of influenza strains, designating the pig an alternate host that facilitates the dissemination and evolution of the influenza A virus.

Lineages that had gone through a single-host or an alternate-host evolutionary history during the first phase of experimental evolution do not show significant differences between each other and in particular the "alternate-host" evolutionary history do not show characteristics of a better adaptation to the new common host, N. tabacum, as predicted by theoretical models [ 33, 34].

Density of the oligochaete Limnodrilus hoffmeistereri, a common alternate host of myxozoans, was much higher at two downstream localities than at an upstream one.

It does not have a known alternate host for completing the sexual cycle.

Unlike the stem rust (P. graminis f. sp. tritici) and leaf rust (P. triticina) fungi, Pst does not have a known alternate host to complete the sexual cycle.

The finding of equivalent mosquito infectivity for CP20D (table 3) demonstrates that such adaptation does not necessarily come at a cost in the alternate host as would be predicted by evolutionary theory [15].