Publications by authors named "Claire Troulet"
Article Synopsis
- A study conducted in 2021 and 2022 collected over 7,300 samples from 36 pepper fields in southwestern France to investigate the cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) affecting Espelette pepper.
- Five new natural host species of CMV were identified, including Arum italicum and Trifolium incarnatum.
- A specific CMV variant was found to be very common in pepper crops (78%) and some wild plants (8%), and this variant has been previously reported in France, dating back to at least 2009.
Investigations into life history of microorganisms that cause plant diseases have been limited mostly to contexts where they are in interaction with plants, and with cropped or otherwise managed vegetation. Therefore, knowledge about the diversity of plant pathogens, about potential reservoirs of inoculum and about the processes that contribute to their survival and adaptation is limited to these contexts. The agro-centric perspective of plant pathogen life histories is incoherent with respect to the capacity of many of them to persist as saprophytes on various substrates.
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