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Comparative observations of Bipolaris sorokiniana and Curvularia geniculata conidia germination as influenced by culture age and temperature showed some distinct differences, but generally established the ability of these organisms to function under similar conditions. Total germination of B. sorokiniana conidia was favored by increasing culture age from 20 to 60 days and temperature to 25°C; total conidia germination of C. geniculata was favored by increasing temperature to 25°C, but increasing culture age decreased germination. These reactions seem associated with conidia age. Maximum proportional intra-population germination of conidia of each organism also varied with culture age and temperature. At temperatures of 5°C and 15°C, amplitude of maximum proportional germination of both organisms increased as culture age was increased from 20 to 40 days and then decreased among 60-day-old cultures. At 25°C and above, amplitude of maximum proportional germination of conidia of both organisms decreased from each older culture. Progressively increasing temperature at a given culture age increased the amplitude of maximum proportional germination up to 25°C for conidia of B. sorokiniana, but generally decreased it for conidia of C. geniculata (except 20-day-old cultures). Frequency (specific 2 h interval) of maximum proportional intrapopulation germination of B. sorokiniana shifted from 6 h to 2 h in response to increasing temperature and culture age; conidia from youngest cultures of C. geniculata shifted to intervals of 4 h and 2 h in response to increasing temperature to 25°C, but among conidia from 60-day-old cultures, frequency shifted to 6 h intervals at all temperatures. Above 25°C, maximum proportional germination of C. geniculata conidia from cultures of all ages occurred at 6 h. It was concluded that the germination response of B. sorokiniana and C. geniculata conidia to temperature and culture age (and, subsequently, conidia age) are enough similar that these organisms could function in a potential ‘disease complex’ on Poa pratensis and Agrostis palustris.
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Journal Paper No. J-8159 of the Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station, Ames; Project 2001.
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Hodges, C.F. Comparative total and proportional rate of germination of Bipolaris sorokiniana and Curvularia geniculata conidia is influenced by culture age and temperature. Mycopathologia 57, 9–14 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00431170
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