These strategies are usually described as fixed traits of the pathogen, implying that they are strongly conserved.
This underscores the importance of specific traits in the pathogen and the plant in determining the direction and rate of evolutionary change as novel pathogen-host combinations become increasingly familiar.
This study highlights the genomic specific traits of the emerging pathogen D. solani and will provide the basis for studying those that are involved in the successful adaptation of this emerging pathogen to the potato plant host.
Here, we used cross-pathogenicity tests to investigate the changes in life-history traits of the fungal pathogen Venturia inaequalis associated with host-tracking during the domestication of apple and subsequent host-range expansion on the wild European crabapple (Malus sylvestris).
This is further complicated by the dependence of the invasion on antigenic or other traits of the invading pathogen [ 12, 31].
To define the genomic factors that may contribute to the virulence traits of the emerging pathogen H. influenzae type f, we initially conducted a pangenomic analysis with three other complete genomes representing encapsulated and nontypeable H. influenzae.
Relating immune memory traits to the pathogen environment of the hosts, our population biological framework sheds light on the evolutionary determinants of immune memory.
Transmission, β, may often depend on the rate of clearance in the host, α, by coupling of those life history traits in the pathogen.
In this study, we examined the effect of VOCs produced by Pseudomonas fluorescens strain WR-1 on the growth and virulence traits of tomato wilt pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum.
However, very few studies have evaluated the possibility of applying this heterologous insect model to investigate virulence traits of the filamentous fungal pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus, the leading cause of invasive aspergillosis.
Considering the food safety as well as the public health significance, molecular study of the virulence traits of fish borne pathogens besides the pathogenic load is of significance in light of the knowledge on the harmful gene propagation among the fish.
