Intellectual Olympiad in Phytopathology - 2026 ongoing

Subject: Phytopathology
Level: XII
Category: student
Quiz questions: in English
Example question: A pathogen population has a bimodal distribution of aggressiveness, and genome-wide association analysis identifies a significant locus near an effector gene. Which experiment would most directly test whether this locus contributes to aggressiveness? Compare colony growth rates of unrelated isolates, Measure disease only in plants lacking the suspected receptor, Disrupt the candidate gene and complement the mutant with its intact allele, Sequence ribosomal DNA from the pathogen population