A new Insight into the threshold and oscillatory regimes in plant-pathogen models: A Nutrient-driven approach
by Dhruba Pariyar Damay, Angela Peace
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This study examines how nutrient availability influences disease spread and how disease, in turn, affects nutrient dynamics. The work is motivated in part by root diseases, which occur largely below ground where transmission pathways are difficult to observe directly. Our results show that nutrient–disease feedbacks can strongly influence whether diseases become established, how outbreaks develop, and how nutrients are distributed between plants and the environment. By directly linking environmental nutrient conditions to disease transmission, this study provides new insight into the ecological processes governing plant disease and offers a foundation for improving predictions of disease risk and ecosystem responses in forest systems.
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