Abstract
SummaryResistant cultivars are of value for protecting crops from disease, but can be rapidly overcome by pathogens. Several strategies have been proposed to delay pathogen adaptation (evolutionary control), while maintaining effective protection (epidemiological control). Resistance genes can bei) combined in the same cultivar (pyramiding),ii) deployed in different cultivars sown in the same field (mixtures) or in different fields (mosaics), oriii) alternated over time (rotations). The outcomes of these strategies have been investigated principally in pathogens displaying pure clonal reproduction, but sexual reproduction may promote the emergence of superpathogens adapted to all the resistance genes deployed.We improved the spatially explicit stochastic modellandsepito include pathogen sexual reproduction, and then investigate the effect of sexual reproduction on evolutionary and epidemiological outcomes across deployment strategies for two major resistance genes.Sexual reproduction only favours the establishment of a superpathogen when single mutant pathogens are present together at a sufficiently high frequency, as in mosaic and mixture strategies.We concluded that, although sexual reproduction may promote the establishment of a superpathogen, it did not affect the optimal strategy recommendations for a wide range of mutation probabilities, associated fitness costs, and landscape organisations (notably the cropping ratio of resistant fields).
Publisher
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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