Usually, we maintain the obligate parasite on a selected host plants by serial inoculation using Wright stage for inoculums and Wright Phenological phases of host plant, and renewal the inoculation in a time stages of infection, all depend on the fungi and the host plant
You can do for maintaning them on host itself the care u must take of contamination of different pathotypes and favourable conditions for the growth of the same.
again you must adopt the detached leaf technique as for any experiment.
dont use the fresh brought diseased sample each time for inoculation as it may have other contaminnats as well as pesticide residues which can alter your studies