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Castillo VCD, Benito EP, Díaz-Mínguez JM. In Planta Gene Expression Analysis and Colonization of Fusarium oxysporum. Methods Mol Biol 2022; 2391:139-152. [PMID: 34686983 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-1795-3_12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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In planta gene expression analysis and GFP-based confocal microscopy are two powerful techniques that may be coupled to assess the extent and dynamics of plant colonization by a fungal pathogen. Here we describe methods to prepare common bean plants for inoculation with a highly virulent strain of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. phaseoli, quantify the extent of colonization by RT-qPCR, and visualize the colonized tissues by confocal microscopy.
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- Virginia Casado-Del Castillo
- Instituto Hispano-Luso de Investigaciones Agrarias (CIALE), Dpto. de Microbiología y Genética, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
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- Instituto Hispano-Luso de Investigaciones Agrarias (CIALE), Dpto. de Microbiología y Genética, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
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- Instituto Hispano-Luso de Investigaciones Agrarias (CIALE), Dpto. de Microbiología y Genética, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain.
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Balint‐Kurti P. The plant hypersensitive response: concepts, control and consequences. MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY 2019; 20:1163-1178. [PMID: 31305008 PMCID: PMC6640183 DOI: 10.1111/mpp.12821] [Citation(s) in RCA: 207] [Impact Index Per Article: 41.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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The hypersensitive defence response is found in all higher plants and is characterized by a rapid cell death at the point of pathogen ingress. It is usually associated with pathogen resistance, though, in specific situations, it may have other consequences such as pathogen susceptibility, growth retardation and, over evolutionary timescales, speciation. Due to the potentially severe costs of inappropriate activation, plants employ multiple mechanisms to suppress inappropriate activation of HR and to constrain it after activation. The ubiquity of this response among higher plants despite its costs suggests that it is an extremely effective component of the plant immune system.
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- Peter Balint‐Kurti
- Plant Science Research UnitUSDA‐ARSRaleighNCUSA
- Department of Entomology and Plant PathologyNC State UniversityRaleighNC27695‐7613USA
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Zhang W, Card SD, Mace WJ, Christensen MJ, McGill CR, Matthew C. Defining the pathways of symbiotic Epichloë colonization in grass embryos with confocal microscopy. Mycologia 2017; 109:153-161. [PMID: 28402784 DOI: 10.1080/00275514.2016.1277469] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Asexual cool-season grass endophytes of the genus Epichloë (Ascomycota: Clavicipitaceae) are strictly vertically disseminated. The hosts of these mutualistic fungi express no symptoms during the fungal lifecycle that takes place entirely within the plant, while their hosts receive beneficial outcomes. These fungi are distributed in two major locations within the mature seeds of their hosts; namely, within the embryo (including the scutellum, coleoptile, plumule, radicle, and coleorhiza tissues) and between the aleurone and pericarp layers, with the latter hyphae playing no role in transmission of the fungus to the next plant generation. Conflicting evidence remains in the literature on the timing of embryo colonization. In a detailed investigation, utilizing confocal microscopy to observe the distribution of Epichloë coenophiala strain AR601 in tall fescue (Lolium arundinaceum), we tracked endophyte hyphal colonization in the ovary (pre-fertilization) through to the fully mature seed stage. Confocal microscopy images revealed that at the early and mature developmental stages of the embryo sac, before host grass fertilization, there were large quantities of endophyte mycelium present, especially around the antipodal cells, indicating that this endophyte enters the embryo sac before the fertilization stage. After host fertilization, fungal hyphae could be seen in the true embryo and early nonstarchy endosperm. Understanding the mechanisms of transmission to the seed is important for commercial seed producers and end users.
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- Wei Zhang
- a Institute of Agriculture and Environment , Massey University , Private Bag 11222, Palmerston North , New Zealand , 4410.,b Forage Improvement, AgResearch Ltd. , Grasslands Research Centre , Private Bag 11008, Palmerston North , New Zealand , 4410
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- b Forage Improvement, AgResearch Ltd. , Grasslands Research Centre , Private Bag 11008, Palmerston North , New Zealand , 4410
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- b Forage Improvement, AgResearch Ltd. , Grasslands Research Centre , Private Bag 11008, Palmerston North , New Zealand , 4410
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- b Forage Improvement, AgResearch Ltd. , Grasslands Research Centre , Private Bag 11008, Palmerston North , New Zealand , 4410
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- a Institute of Agriculture and Environment , Massey University , Private Bag 11222, Palmerston North , New Zealand , 4410
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- a Institute of Agriculture and Environment , Massey University , Private Bag 11222, Palmerston North , New Zealand , 4410
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Jiménez-Fernández D, Landa BB, Kang S, Jiménez-Díaz RM, Navas-Cortés JA. Quantitative and microscopic assessment of compatible and incompatible interactions between chickpea cultivars and Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceris races. PLoS One 2013; 8:e61360. [PMID: 23613839 PMCID: PMC3629054 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061360] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2012] [Accepted: 03/06/2013] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Fusarium wilt caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceris, a main threat to global chickpea production, is managed mainly by resistant cultivars whose efficiency is curtailed by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceris races. METHODOLOGY We characterized compatible and incompatible interactions by assessing the spatial-temporal pattern of infection and colonization of chickpea cvs. P-2245, JG-62 and WR-315 by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceris races 0 and 5 labeled with ZsGreen fluorescent protein using confocal laser scanning microscopy. FINDINGS The two races colonized the host root surface in both interactions with preferential colonization of the root apex and subapical root zone. In compatible interactions, the pathogen grew intercellularly in the root cortex, reached the xylem, and progressed upwards in the stem xylem, being the rate and intensity of stem colonization directly related with the degree of compatibility among Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceris races and chickpea cultivars. In incompatible interactions, race 0 invaded and colonized 'JG-62' xylem vessels of root and stem but in 'WR-315', it remained in the intercellular spaces of the root cortex failing to reach the xylem, whereas race 5 progressed up to the hypocotyl. However, all incompatible interactions were asymptomatic. CONCLUSIONS The differential patterns of colonization of chickpea cultivars by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceris races may be related to the operation of multiple resistance mechanisms.
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- Daniel Jiménez-Fernández
- College of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Córdoba, Campus de Excelencia Internacional Agroalimentario ceiA3, Córdoba, Spain
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- Institute for Sustainable Agriculture (IAS), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Córdoba, Spain
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- Department of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- College of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Córdoba, Campus de Excelencia Internacional Agroalimentario ceiA3, Córdoba, Spain
- Institute for Sustainable Agriculture (IAS), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Córdoba, Spain
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- Institute for Sustainable Agriculture (IAS), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Córdoba, Spain
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Seo JK, Kwon SJ, Rao ALN. A physical interaction between viral replicase and capsid protein is required for genome-packaging specificity in an RNA virus. J Virol 2012; 86:6210-21. [PMID: 22438552 PMCID: PMC3372179 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.07184-11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2011] [Accepted: 03/09/2012] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Genome packaging is functionally coupled to replication in RNA viruses pathogenic to humans (Poliovirus), insects (Flock house virus [FHV]), and plants (Brome mosaic virus [BMV]). However, the underlying mechanism is not fully understood. We have observed previously that in FHV and BMV, unlike ectopically expressed capsid protein (CP), packaging specificity results from RNA encapsidation by CP that has been translated from mRNA produced from replicating genomic RNA. Consequently, we hypothesize that a physical interaction with replicase increases the CP specificity for packaging viral RNAs. We tested this hypothesis by evaluating the molecular interaction between replicase protein and CP using a FHV-Nicotiana benthamiana system. Bimolecular fluorescence complementation in conjunction with fluorescent cellular protein markers and coimmunoprecipitation assays demonstrated that FHV replicase (protein A) and CP physically interact at the mitochondrial site of replication and that this interaction requires the N-proximal region from either amino acids 1 to 31 or amino acids 32 to 50 of the CP. In contrast to the mitochondrial localization of CP derived from FHV replication, ectopic expression displayed a characteristic punctate pattern on the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). This pattern was altered to relocalize the CP throughout the cytoplasm when the C-proximal hydrophobic domain was deleted. Analysis of the packaging phenotypes of the CP mutants defective either in protein A-CP interactions or ER localization suggested that synchronization between protein A-CP interaction and its subcellular localization is imperative to confer packaging specificity.
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- Jang-Kyun Seo
- Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, University of California, Riverside, California, USA
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Adams E, Emerson D, Croker S, Kim HS, Modla S, Kang S, Czymmek K. Atomic force microscopy: a tool for studying biophysical surface properties underpinning fungal interactions with plants and substrates. Methods Mol Biol 2012; 835:151-164. [PMID: 22183653 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-501-5_10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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One of the primary roles of the cell surface is to provide an effective barrier to various external environmental factors. Specifically, the surface properties of organisms serve as a critical obstacle to pathogen attack. Since its inception, Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) has enabled nanoscale imaging of cell surfaces in their native state. However AFM has yet to be systematically applied toward resolving surface features and the forces underpinning plant-fungal interactions. In an effort to understand the physical forces involved at the plant-microbe interface, we describe a method for the attachment of fungal spores to AFM tips and the subsequent measurement of unbinding forces between spores with a range of substrates and plant surfaces under physiologically relevant conditions. Investigations of binding events using AFM offer an unexplored, sensitive, and quantitative method for analyzing host-pathogen/microbe-surface interactions.
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- Elizabeth Adams
- Delaware Biotechnology Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA
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Djulic A, Schmid A, Lenz H, Sharma P, Koch C, Wirsel SG, Voegele RT. Transient transformation of the obligate biotrophic rust fungus Uromyces fabae using biolistics. Fungal Biol 2011; 115:633-42. [DOI: 10.1016/j.funbio.2011.03.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2010] [Revised: 02/28/2011] [Accepted: 03/16/2011] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Mur LAJ, Kenton P, Lloyd AJ, Ougham H, Prats E. The hypersensitive response; the centenary is upon us but how much do we know? JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2008; 59:501-20. [PMID: 18079135 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erm239] [Citation(s) in RCA: 389] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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With the centenary of the first descriptions of 'hypersensitiveness' following pathogenic challenge upon us, it is appropriate to assess our current understanding of the hypersensitive response (HR) form of cell death. In recent decades our understanding of the initiation, associated signalling, and some important proteolytic events linked to the HR has dramatically increased. Genetic approaches are increasingly elucidating the function of the HR initiating resistance genes and there have been extensive analyses of death-associated signals, calcium, reactive oxygen species (ROS), nitric oxide, salicylic acid, and now sphingolipids. At the same time, attempts to draw parallels between mammalian apoptosis and the HR have been largely unsuccessful and it may be better to consider the HR to be a distinctive form of plant cell death. We will consider if the HR form of cell death may occur through metabolic dysfunction in which malfunctioning organelles may play a major role. This review will highlight that although our knowledge of parts of the HR is excellent, a comprehensive molecular model is still to be attained.
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- Luis A J Mur
- University of Wales Aberystwyth, Institute of Biological Sciences, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 2DA, UK.
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Czymmek K. Exploring Fungal Activity with Confocal and Multiphoton Microscopy. Mycology 2005. [DOI: 10.1201/9781420027891.ch15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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D'Haeze W, Gao M, Holsters M. A gfp reporter plasmid to visualize Azorhizobium caulinodans during nodulation of Sesbania rostrata. Plasmid 2004; 51:185-91. [PMID: 15109825 DOI: 10.1016/j.plasmid.2004.01.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2003] [Revised: 01/14/2004] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Compared with other labeling techniques, the use of the green fluorescent protein (GFP) is advantageous to visualize bacteria because observations can be performed in real time. This feature is particularly interesting to study invasion events of rhizobia during nodule development on their legume host plant. To investigate the symbiotic interaction between Azorhizobium caulinodans ORS571 and Sesbania rostrata, we constructed two plasmids, pMP220-hem-gfp5 and pBBR5-hem-gfp5-S65T, that carry a modified gfp gene, the expression of which is controlled by the constitutive hem promoter. Introduction of either of these plasmids into A. caulinodans allowed the visualization of single bacteria. Determination of the plasmid stability in cultured bacteria and in nodules demonstrated that pBBR5-hem-gfp5-S65T is more stable than pMP220-hem-gfp5. The plasmid pBBR5-hem-gfp5-S65T can be used to study early invasion events during nodule development on hydroponic roots of S. rostrata.
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- Wim D'Haeze
- Department of Plant Systems Biology, Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Ghent University, Technologiepark 927, B-9052, Belgium
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Ricker MD. Pixels, Bits, and GUIs: The Fundamentals of Digital Imagery and Their Application by Plant Pathologists. PLANT DISEASE 2004; 88:228-241. [PMID: 30812353 DOI: 10.1094/pdis.2004.88.3.228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Wasteneys GO, Galway ME. Remodeling the cytoskeleton for growth and form: an overview with some new views. ANNUAL REVIEW OF PLANT BIOLOGY 2003; 54:691-722. [PMID: 14503008 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.arplant.54.031902.134818] [Citation(s) in RCA: 184] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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The cytoskeleton coordinates all aspects of growth in plant cells, including exocytosis of membrane and wall components during cell expansion. This review seeks to integrate current information about cytoskeletal components in plants and the role they play in generating cell form. Advances in genome analysis have fundamentally changed the nature of research strategies and generated an explosion of new information on the cytoskeleton-associated proteins, their regulation, and their role in signaling to the cytoskeleton. Some of these proteins appear novel to plants, but many have close homologues in other eukaryotic systems. It is becoming clear that the mechanisms behind cell growth are essentially similar across the growth continuum, which ranges from tip growth to diffuse expansion. Remodeling of the actin cytoskeleton at sites of exocytosis is an especially critical feature of polarized and may also contribute to axial growth. We evaluate the most recent work on the signaling mechanisms that continually remodel the actin cytoskeleton via the activation of actin-binding proteins (ABPs) and consider the role the microtubule cytoskeleton plays in this process.
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- Geoffrey O Wasteneys
- Plant Cell Biology Group, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia.
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To exploit plants as living substrates, biotrophic fungi have evolved remarkable variations of their tubular cells, the hyphae. They form infection structures such as appressoria, penetration hyphae and infection hyphae to invade the plant with minimal damage to host cells. To establish compatibility with the host, controlled secretory activity and distinct interface layers appear to be essential. Colletotrichum species switch from initial biotrophic to necrotrophic growth and are amenable to mutant analysis and molecular studies. Obligate biotrophic rust fungi can form the most specialized hypha: the haustorium. Gene expression and immunocytological studies with rust fungi support the idea that the haustorium is a transfer apparatus for the long-term absorption of host nutrients.
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- Kurt Mendgen
- Dept of Biology, University of Konstanz, Universitätsstrasse 10, 78457 Konstanz, Germany.
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Chaerle L, Van Der Straeten D. Seeing is believing: imaging techniques to monitor plant health. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 2001; 1519:153-66. [PMID: 11418181 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4781(01)00238-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 144] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Historically, early stress-induced changes in plants have been mainly detected after destructive sampling followed by biochemical and molecular determinations. Imaging techniques that allow immediate detection of stress-situations, before visual symptoms appear and adverse effects become established, are emerging as promising tools for crop yield management. Such monitoring approaches can also be applied to screen plant populations for mutants with increased stress tolerance. At the laboratory scale, different imaging methods can be tested and one or a combination best suited for crop surveillance chosen. The system of choice can be applied under controlled laboratory conditions to guide selective sampling for the molecular characterisation of rapid stress-induced changes. Such an approach permits to isolate presymptomatically induced genes, or to obtain a panoramic view of early gene expression using gene-arrays when plants undergo physiological changes undetected by the human eye. Using this knowledge, plants can be engineered to be more stress resistant, and tested for field performance by the same methodologies. In ongoing efforts of genome characterisation, genes of unknown function are revealed at an ever-accelerating pace. By monitoring changes in phenotypic characteristics of transgenic plants expressing those genes, imaging techniques could help to identify their function.
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- L Chaerle
- Department of Molecular Genetics, Ghent University, K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35, B-9000, Ghent, Belgium
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Gold SE, García-Pedrajas MD, Martínez-Espinoza AD. New (and used) approaches to the study of fungal pathogenicity. ANNUAL REVIEW OF PHYTOPATHOLOGY 2001; 39:337-365. [PMID: 11701869 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.phyto.39.1.337] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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The fungi are the most economically important plant pathogens and continue to be the focus of extensive research with a wide variety of methodologies. Enhancements in microscopy techniques have increased our ability to visualize the intimate interaction of fungi and their host plants. Improving methods allow pharmacological inhibition and genetic dissection of the determinants of fungal pathogenicity in a gene-by-gene approach. Identification and analysis of genes differentially transcribed in ways pertinent to pathogenicity continues to be a frequent research approach. Genome-wide analysis is gaining favor in biological research and fungal plant pathogens are no exception. Several industrial research groups are exploring fungal plant pathogenesis based on genomic sequence data and genome-wide mutagenesis. In March 2001 the first publicly available complete genome of a filamentous fungus (Neurospora crassa) was released. N. crassa is of course a saprophyte and there is no complete sequence available for a plant pathogenic fungus in public databases. However, freely accessible entire genome sequences for both plant pathogenic fungi and their hosts are on the horizon. Sequence availability promises to revolutionize the rate at which data relevant to disease processes will be accrued. In this review we describe approaches currently applied to the study of plant pathogenic fungi and explore developments of potential future benefit with existing technologies not yet applied to this group of important organisms.
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- S E Gold
- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602-7274, USA.
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