Differences in early hyphal development of <i>Podosphaera xanthii</i> on <i>Cucumis sativus</i> leaves acclimatized to high or low relative humidity
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This research investigated early hyphal development of cucurbit powdery mildew (Podosphaera xanthii) on leaves of cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) acclimatized to different relative humidities to clarify the factors that limit it. Cucumber seedlings were acclimatized to a low (10%) or high (90%) relative humidity (RH) at 30 °C from germination. When the cotyledons had expanded and the first true leaf had begun to emerge, the plants were inoculated, and initial conidial invasion, hyphal development, and secondary haustorial formation were evaluated. The initial invasion of P. xanthii into the epidermis was slower on the low-RH leaves than on the high-RH leaves, suggesting that structural properties, such as greater leaf mass per area, physically limited the development of P. xanthii. The hyphal development and secondary haustoria of conidia that had successfully infected the epidermis were also slower on the low-RH leaves. These post-invasion behaviors indicate that conidial development was also suppressed by nonstructural properties of low-RH leaves such as nutrients, which correlate with nonstructural defense. The reduced leaf N content of the low-RH leaves may in part have inhibited the post-invasion behaviors of P. xanthii.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".