Mate Limitation in Fungal Plant Parasites Can Lead to Cyclic Epidemics in Perennial Host Populations

• Published in: Bulletin of mathematical biology Vol. 79; no. 3; pp. 430 - 447
• Main Authors: Ravigné, Virginie, Lemesle, Valérie, Walter, Alicia, Mailleret, Ludovic, Hamelin, Frédéric M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.03.2017; Springer Nature B.V; Springer Verlag
• Subjects: Ascomycetes; Ascomycota - pathogenicity; Ascomycota - physiology; Automatic Control Engineering; Cell Biology; Computer Science; Engineering Sciences; Fungi - pathogenicity; Fungi - physiology; Host-Pathogen Interactions; Life Sciences; Mathematical and Computational Biology; Mathematical Concepts; Mathematics; Mathematics and Statistics; Models, Biological; Musa; Musa - microbiology; Original Article; Plant Diseases - microbiology; Plants - microbiology; Reproduction; Reproduction, Asexual; Spores, Fungal - pathogenicity; Fungi; 92D30; Competitive exclusion; Asexual reproduction; 92D25; Mixed mating system; Allee effect; 34A99; Nonlinear transmission; Sexual reproduction; Epidemiology; Limit cycle; epidemiology; nonlinear transmission; competitive exclusion; mixed mating system; fungi; limit; sexual reproduction; Mathematics Subject Classification; asexual reproduction; cycle

Fungal plant parasites represent a growing concern for biodiversity and food security. Most ascomycete species are capable of producing different types of infectious spores both asexually and sexually. Yet the contributions of both types of spores to epidemiological dynamics have still to been fully...