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<img src = "https://www.apsnet.org/edcenter/intropp/lessons/fungi/ascomycetes/PublishingImages/Fusariumdiscyclesm.jpg" align= right width = 270> This research compendium  contains the data and R codes for analyzing and visualizing these data obtained from a series of experiments conducted as an MSc research in the Del Ponte lab. The main objective was to assess and compare members of a species complex (FGSC), with varying toxigenic potential, which cause [Fusarium head blight (FHB) or scab](https://www.apsnet.org/edcenter/intropp/lessons/fungi/ascomycetes/Pages/Fusarium.aspx). Several fitness-related traits were compared in five experiments conducted both *in vitro* and in *planta*. Check the manuscript page.

## Citation

> Del Ponte EM. Fitness-related traits of *Fusarium graminearum* species complex: a research compendia. Online at https://phytopathology.github.io/paper-FGSC-fitness/

## Pre-print version

> BIORXIV/2017/235895
Fitness traits of deoxynivalenol and nivalenol-producing *Fusarium graminearum* species complex strains from wheat
Camila P Nicolli, Franklin J Machado, Pierri Spolti, and Emerson M Del Ponte  
https://doi.org/10.1101/235895    

## Summary of methods

A collection of 30 strains was obtained from the laboratory's FGSC collection and experiments were designed to measure traits related with asexual and sexual fungal growth, pathogenicity towards two wheat cultivars of varying susceptibility and sensitivity to tebuconazole fungicide. In most analyses, we were interested in testing the effect of species or toxing genotypes, and not the effect of individual isolates. Therefore, the isolates were treated as random sample representative of the population of strains. We used a mixed modeling approach where isolates were treated as random effects.
Data from each experiment were analyzed separately.


## Project team

Project PI:

- Emerson M. Del Ponte
- Universidade Federal de Viçosa

Members:

- Camila P. Nicolli, MSc student
- Piérri Spolti, Postdoctoral felow
- Franklin Machado, DSc student


## Licences

Data: [CC-0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) attribution requested in reuse
Manuscript: [CC-BY-4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)  
Code: [MIT](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) year: 2017, copyright holder: Emerson Del Ponte