Quantitative disease resistance in wild Silene vulgaris to its endemic pathogen Microbotryum silenes-inflatae collection sites

Details presented on the collections sites of Silene vulgaris seeds from natural populations, for use in the study, Quantitative Disease Resistance in wild Silene vulgaris to its Endemic Pathogen Microbotryum silenes-inflatae.  In this study the seeds were collected a mixed half and full sibling families (seeds from the same maternal plants) and used to produce plants that were then cloned by vegetative cuttings.  The infection rates of these clones, as well as of their F1 offspring, by the fungus Microbotryum silenes-inflatae are also presented.

Methods
Surveys of natural populations of Silene vulgaris identified sites of seed collection.  Data on the susceptibility to the fungal pathoge, Microbotryum silenes-inflatae, were collected from greenhouse experiments, including the susceptiblity of the field-collected seed genotypes based on growing the plants and producing multiple clones (by vegetative propogation) prior to inoculation (data show the proportion of clones that became diseased), and including susceptibility of F1 generation produced in the greenhouse from those genotypes and then inoculating the offspring (data showing the proportion of F1 offspring that became diseased).  Data presented are not transformed.