Data on contrasting sensitivities to seasonal warming among co-occurring diseases
Data files
Dec 19, 2025 version files 16 KB
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disease_symptoms_at_summertime_temperatures.csv
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field_inoculation.csv
570 B
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growth_chamber_inoculation.csv
691 B
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README.md
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seasonal_field_surveys.csv
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Abstract
The included data provide observational and experimental information on the temperature sensitivities of the fungal pathogens, Microbotryum silenes-inflatae (anther smut) and Thecaphora melandrii (receptacle smut), when affecting the host plant, Silene vulgaris. The data show counts of plants observed in natural populations of numbers of plants that displayed the smut diseases caused by the two fungi or were healthy, recorded in spring, summer or fall seasons. Also included are data on the disease symptoms of infected plants experimentally exposed to summer-time temperatures, data on disease symptoms of plants inoculated in the field under summertime temperatures, and data on disease symptoms of plants inoculated under growth chamber conditions matching summertime or spring/fall temperatures. The data can be used in manners that comply with a CC0 license waiver, including to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, with no conditions. There were no legal or ethical considerations related to the data collection.
Dataset DOI: 10.5061/dryad.4j0zpc8rm
Description of the data and file structure
The included data provide observational and experimental information on the temperature sensitivities of the fungal pathogens, Microbotryum silenes-inflatae (anther smut) and Thecaphora melandrii (receptacle smut), when affecting the host plant, Silene vulgaris.
Files and variables
Four data files are included with the following names, and below each name in brackets are the data column headers and any abbreviations used:
seasonal_field_surveys.csv
[columns include Site (location name), Count (number of plants observed), Seasons (spring, summer, or fall of when observations were made), and Status (indicating plants showing symptoms of anther smut disease, receptacle smut disease, or the total flowering population size that includes healthy plants)]
disease_symptoms_at_summertime_temperatures.csv
[columns include Pathogen (abbreviating the genus names as M. silenes-inflatae or T. melandrii), Pair (indicating a pathogen of each species type pairs for analysis), Days (number of days of exposure to summertime temperature), Block (replication by block), Flowers scored (number of flowers assessed for disease symptoms), Flowers healthy (number of assessed flowers that were healthy), Flowers diseased (number of assessed flowers that showed disease symptoms), Plants scored (number of assessed plants), Plants >0 healthy flowers (number of plants with more than zero healthy flowers), and Plants with diseased flowers (number of plants with diseased flowers)]
field_inoculation.csv
[columns include Treatment (treatment names based on the pathogen used with M. silenes-inflatae indicated as M and T. melandrii indicated as T, and strains of the two pathogens indicated as numbers 1 to 4), N plants (numbers of plants included per treatment), Anther-smut disease (numbers of plants showing symptoms of anther-smut disease), Receptacle-smut disease (numbers of plants showing symptoms of receptacle-smut disease), Healthy (numbers of plants remaining healthy), Inoculum type (single meaning inoculation with on pathogen species and mixed meaning inoculation with a mixture of the two pathogen species), Pathogen (indicating which pathogen was used for singe or mixed inoculum types), and Pair (indicating the combinations of pathogen strains 1 to 4 used for analysis)]
growth_chamber_inoculation.csv
[columns include Pathogen (indicating the pathogen species used for inoculation), Pair (indicating a pathogen of each species type pairs for analysis), Incubation temperature (indicating spring/fall temperatures or summertime temperature for incubation of inoculated plants), Number diseased (number of plants observed showing disease symptoms), Number healthy (number of plants remaining healthy), Number scored (the sum of plants assessed for disease symptoms)]
Code/software
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Access information
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Data was derived from the following sources:
- from observational and experimental study
Seasonal field surveys in natural populations indicate the numbers of plants of the status of showing the smut diseases caused by the two fungi or were healthy with 100-sequare-meter plots, recorded in spring, summer or fall seasons. Data on infected plants showing disease symptoms experimentally exposed to summer-time temperatures included pairs of M. silenes-inflatae and T. melanrdii pathogens at 3 to 30 days of exposure to the temperatures and replicated in two blocks. Among all these plants, all produced flowers were assessed for symptoms and counted as healthy or diseased. For data on plants inoculated under field conditions, either as M. silenes-inflatae (M) or T. melandrii (T) or a mixture of the two fungi, those showing symptoms of the two diseased or remaining healthy were counted. For data on plants inoculated under growth chamber conditions of spring/fall or summertime temperatures with either of the two pathogens, the numbers showing disease symptoms or remained healthy were counted.