🪱 Virulent vs. avirulent #nematodes

✅A #virulent nematode population can infect & reproduce on plants carrying resistance genes.

❎An #avirulent population cannot overcome plant resistance and fails to reproduce.

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2. In mixed infection, #virulent strains of #Zymoseptoria tritici manipulate/suppress the wheat immune response.
This promotes host infection and increases colonization by #avirulent strains.
(Bernasconi et al., in rev.

2. In mixed infection, #virulent strains of #Zymoseptoria tritici manipulate/suppress the wheat immune response.
This promotes host infection and increases colonization by #avirulent strains.
(Bernasconi et al., in rev.