Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science Volume 69 Annual Issue Article 17 1962 Inhibition of Germination of Oospores of Peronospora Manshurica John Dunleavy Iowa State University Glenn Snyder Iowa State University Let us know how access to this document benefits ouy Copyright ©1962 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc. Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias Recommended Citation Dunleavy, John and Snyder, Glenn (1962) "Inhibition of Germination of Oospores of Peronospora Manshurica," Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 69(1), 118-121. Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol69/iss1/17 This Research is brought to you for free and open access by the Iowa Academy of Science at UNI ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by an authorized editor of UNI ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Dunleavy and Snyder: Inhibition of Germination of Oospores of Peronospora Manshurica Inhibition of Germination of Oospores of Peronospora Manshurica 1 }oHN DuNLEAVY2 AND GLENN SNYDER3 Abstract. Oospores of Pcronospora manshurica have not previously been observed to germinate. In the present tests, however, oospores on seed coats of soybeans washed in nm ning tap water for 1 week germinated. Each germinating oospore produced a germ tube, which developed into typical branched mycelium. Oospores were placed in the center of water-agar plates, some of which were immediately sprayed with a dilute suspension of conidia of P. manshurica. Other plates were sprayed later. Germination of conidia was in hibited in an area around the oospores. The size of the area of inhibition was proportional to the elapsed time between placing oospores on the agar and ~praving the agar with conidia.