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Klosterman SJ, Clark KJ, Anchieta AG, Kandel SL, Mou B, McGrath MT, Correll JC, Shishkoff N. Transmission of Spinach Downy Mildew via Seed and Infested Leaf Debris. PLANT DISEASE 2024; 108:951-959. [PMID: 37840290 DOI: 10.1094/pdis-06-23-1225-re] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2023]
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Spinach downy mildew, caused by the obligate oomycete pathogen Peronospora effusa, is a worldwide constraint on spinach production. The role of airborne sporangia in the disease cycle of P. effusa is well established, but the role of the sexual oospores in the epidemiology of P. effusa is less clear and has been a major challenge to examine experimentally. To evaluate seed transmission of spinach downy mildew via oospores in this study, isolated glass chambers were employed in two independent experiments to grow out oospore-infested spinach seed and noninfested seeds mixed with oospore-infested crop debris. Downy mildew diseased spinach plants were observed 37 and 34 days after planting in the two isolator experiments, respectively, in the chambers that contained one of two oospore-infested seed lots or seeds coated with oospore-infested leaves. Spinach plants in isolated glass chambers initiated from seeds without oospores did not show downy mildew symptoms. Similar findings were obtained using the same seed lot samples in a third experiment conducted in a growth chamber. In direct grow out tests to examine oospore infection on seedlings performed in a containment greenhouse with oospore-infested seed of two different cultivars, characteristic Peronospora sporangiophores were observed growing from a seedling of each cultivar. The frequency of seedlings developing symptoms from 82 of these oospore-infested seed indicated that approximately 2.4% of seedlings from infested seed developed symptoms, and 0.55% of seedlings from total seeds assayed developed symptoms. The results provide evidence that oospores can serve as a source of inoculum for downy mildew and provide further evidence of direct seed transmission of the downy mildew pathogen to seedlings in spinach via seedborne oospores.
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- Crop Improvement and Protection Research Unit, USDA-ARS, Salinas, CA
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- Crop Improvement and Protection Research Unit, USDA-ARS, Salinas, CA
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- Crop Improvement and Protection Research Unit, USDA-ARS, Salinas, CA
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- Long Island Horticultural Research and Extension Center, Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Riverhead, NY
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- Department of Plant Pathology and Entomology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
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- Foreign Disease-Weed Science Research Unit, USDA-ARS, Ft. Detrick, MD
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Fletcher K, Michelmore R. Genome-Enabled Insights into Downy Mildew Biology and Evolution. ANNUAL REVIEW OF PHYTOPATHOLOGY 2023; 61:165-183. [PMID: 37268005 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-phyto-021622-103440] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Oomycetes that cause downy mildew diseases are highly specialized, obligately biotrophic phytopathogens that can have major impacts on agriculture and natural ecosystems. Deciphering the genome sequence of these organisms provides foundational tools to study and deploy control strategies against downy mildew pathogens (DMPs). The recent telomere-to-telomere genome assembly of the DMP Peronospora effusa revealed high levels of synteny with distantly related DMPs, higher than expected repeat content, and previously undescribed architectures. This provides a road map for generating similar high-quality genome assemblies for other oomycetes. This review discusses biological insights made using this and other assemblies, including ancestral chromosome architecture, modes of sexual and asexual variation, the occurrence of heterokaryosis, candidate gene identification, functional validation, and population dynamics. We also discuss future avenues of research likely to be fruitful in studies of DMPs and highlight resources necessary for advancing our understanding and ability to forecast and control disease outbreaks.
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- Kyle Fletcher
- The Genome Center, University of California, Davis, California, USA
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- The Genome Center, University of California, Davis, California, USA
- Department of Plant Sciences; Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology; Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, Davis, California, USA;
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Tör M, Wood T, Webb A, Göl D, McDowell JM. Recent developments in plant-downy mildew interactions. Semin Cell Dev Biol 2023; 148-149:42-50. [PMID: 36670035 DOI: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2023.01.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2022] [Revised: 01/11/2023] [Accepted: 01/12/2023] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Downy mildews are obligate oomycete pathogens that attack a wide range of plants and can cause significant economic impacts on commercial crops and ornamental plants. Traditionally, downy mildew disease control relied on an integrated strategies, that incorporate cultural practices, deployment of resistant cultivars, crop rotation, application of contact and systemic pesticides, and biopesticides. Recent advances in genomics provided data that significantly advanced understanding of downy mildew evolution, taxonomy and classification. In addition, downy mildew genomics also revealed that these obligate oomycetes have reduced numbers of virulence factor genes in comparison to hemibiotrophic and necrotrophic oomycetes. However, downy mildews do deploy significant arrays of virulence proteins, including so-called RXLR proteins that promote virulence or are recognized as avirulence factors. Pathogenomics are being applied to downy mildew population studies to determine the genetic diversity within the downy mildew populations and manage disease by selection of appropriate varieties and management strategies. Genome editing technologies have been used to manipulate host disease susceptibility genes in different plants including grapevine and sweet basil and thereby provide new soucres of resistance genes against downy mildews. Previously, it has proved difficult to transform and manipulate downy mildews because of their obligate lifestyle. However, recent exploitation of RNA interference machinery through Host-Induced Gene Silencing (HIGS) and Spray-Induced Gene Silencing (SIGS) indicate that functional genomics in downy mildews is now possible. Altogether, these breakthrough technologies and attendant fundamental understanding will advance our ability to mitigate downy mildew diseases.
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- Mahmut Tör
- Department of Biology, School of Science and the Environment, University of Worcester, Henwick Grove, Worcester WR2 6AJ, UK.
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- Department of Biology, School of Science and the Environment, University of Worcester, Henwick Grove, Worcester WR2 6AJ, UK
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- School of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0329, USA
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Bhattarai G, Olaoye D, Mou B, Correll JC, Shi A. Mapping and selection of downy mildew resistance in spinach cv. whale by low coverage whole genome sequencing. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 13:1012923. [PMID: 36275584 PMCID: PMC9583407 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.1012923] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2022] [Accepted: 09/16/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Spinach (Spinacia oleracea) is a popular leafy vegetable crop and commercial production is centered in California and Arizona in the US. The oomycete Peronospora effusa causes the most important disease in spinach, downy mildew. A total of nineteen races of P. effusa are known, with more than 15 documented in the last three decades, and the regular emergence of new races is continually overcoming the genetic resistance to the pathogen. This study aimed to finely map the downy mildew resistance locus RPF3 in spinach, identify single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers associated with the resistance, refine the candidate genes responsible for the resistance, and evaluate the prediction performance using multiple machine learning genomic prediction (GP) methods. Segregating progeny population developed from a cross of resistant cultivar Whale and susceptible cultivar Viroflay to race 5 of P. effusa was inoculated under greenhouse conditions to determine downy mildew disease response across the panel. The progeny panel and the parents were resequenced at low coverage (1x) to identify genome wide SNP markers. Association analysis was performed using disease response phenotype data and SNP markers in TASSEL, GAPIT, and GENESIS programs and mapped the race 5 resistance loci (RPF3) to 1.25 and 2.73 Mb of Monoe-Viroflay chromosome 3 with the associated SNP in the 1.25 Mb region was 0.9 Kb from the NBS-LRR gene SOV3g001250. The RPF3 locus in the 1.22-1.23 Mb region of Sp75 chromosome 3 is 2.41-3.65 Kb from the gene Spo12821 annotated as NBS-LRR disease resistance protein. This study extended our understanding of the genetic basis of downy mildew resistance in spinach cultivar Whale and mapped the RPF3 resistance loci close to the NBS-LRR gene providing a target to pursue functional validation. Three SNP markers efficiently selected resistance based on multiple genomic selection (GS) models. The results from this study have added new genomic resources, generated an informed basis of the RPF3 locus resistant to spinach downy mildew pathogen, and developed markers and prediction methods to select resistant lines.
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- Gehendra Bhattarai
- Department of Horticulture, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States
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- Department of Horticulture, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States
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- Crop Improvement and Protection Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Salinas, CA, United States
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States
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- Department of Horticulture, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States
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Fletcher K, Shin OH, Clark KJ, Feng C, Putman AI, Correll JC, Klosterman SJ, Van Deynze A, Michelmore RW. Ancestral Chromosomes for Family Peronosporaceae Inferred from a Telomere-to-Telomere Genome Assembly of Peronospora effusa. MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS : MPMI 2022; 35:450-463. [PMID: 35226812 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-09-21-0227-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Downy mildew disease of spinach, caused by the oomycete Peronospora effusa, causes major losses to spinach production. In this study, the 17 chromosomes of P. effusa were assembled telomere-to-telomere, using Pacific Biosciences high-fidelity reads. Of these, 16 chromosomes are complete and gapless; chromosome 15 contains one gap bridging the nucleolus organizer region. This is the first telomere-to-telomere genome assembly for an oomycete. Putative centromeric regions were identified on all chromosomes. This new assembly enables a reevaluation of the genomic composition of Peronospora spp.; the assembly was almost double the size and contained more repeat sequences than previously reported for any Peronospora species. Genome fragments consistently underrepresented in six previously reported assemblies of P. effusa typically encoded repeats. Some genes annotated as encoding effectors were organized into multigene clusters on several chromosomes. Putative effectors were annotated on 16 of the 17 chromosomes. The intergenic distances between annotated genes were consistent with compartmentalization of the genome into gene-dense and gene-sparse regions. Genes encoding putative effectors were enriched in gene-sparse regions. The near-gapless assembly revealed apparent horizontal gene transfer from Ascomycete fungi. Gene order was highly conserved between P. effusa and the genetically oriented assembly of the oomycete Bremia lactucae; high levels of synteny were also detected with Phytophthora sojae. Extensive synteny between phylogenetically distant species suggests that many other oomycete species may have similar chromosome organization. Therefore, this assembly provides the foundation for genomic analyses of diverse oomycetes.[Formula: see text] Copyright © 2022 The Author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license.
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- Kyle Fletcher
- The Genome Center, University of California, Davis, CA, U.S.A
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- Seed Biotechnology Center, Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA, U.S.A
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- United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Station, 1636 East Alisal Street, Salinas, CA, U.S.A
- Department of Entomology & Plant Pathology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, U.S.A
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- Department of Entomology & Plant Pathology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, U.S.A
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- Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of California, Riverside, CA, U.S.A
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- Department of Entomology & Plant Pathology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, U.S.A
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- United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Station, 1636 East Alisal Street, Salinas, CA, U.S.A
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- Seed Biotechnology Center, Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA, U.S.A
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- The Genome Center, University of California, Davis, CA, U.S.A
- Departments of Plant Sciences, Molecular & Cellular Biology, Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of California, Davis, CA, U.S.A
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Koledenkova K, Esmaeel Q, Jacquard C, Nowak J, Clément C, Ait Barka E. Plasmopara viticola the Causal Agent of Downy Mildew of Grapevine: From Its Taxonomy to Disease Management. Front Microbiol 2022; 13:889472. [PMID: 35633680 PMCID: PMC9130769 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.889472] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2022] [Accepted: 04/19/2022] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Plasmopara viticola (P. viticola, Berk. & M. A. Curtis; Berl. & De Toni) causing grapevine downy mildew is one of the most damaging pathogens to viticulture worldwide. Since its recognition in the middle of nineteenth century, this disease has spread from America to Europe and then to all grapevine-growing countries, leading to significant economic losses due to the lack of efficient disease control. In 1885 copper was found to suppress many pathogens, and is still the most effective way to control downy mildews. During the twentieth century, contact and penetrating single-site fungicides have been developed for use against plant pathogens including downy mildews, but wide application has led to the appearance of pathogenic strains resistant to these treatments. Additionally, due to the negative environmental impact of chemical pesticides, the European Union restricted their use, triggering a rush to develop alternative tools such as resistant cultivars breeding, creation of new active ingredients, search for natural products and biocontrol agents that can be applied alone or in combination to kill the pathogen or mitigate its effect. This review summarizes data about the history, distribution, epidemiology, taxonomy, morphology, reproduction and infection mechanisms, symptoms, host-pathogen interactions, host resistance and control of the P. viticola, with a focus on sustainable methods, especially the use of biocontrol agents.
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- Kseniia Koledenkova
- Université de Reims Champagne Ardenne, RIBP EA4707 USC INRAE 1488, SFR Condorcet FR CNRS 3417, Reims, France
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- Université de Reims Champagne Ardenne, RIBP EA4707 USC INRAE 1488, SFR Condorcet FR CNRS 3417, Reims, France
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- Université de Reims Champagne Ardenne, RIBP EA4707 USC INRAE 1488, SFR Condorcet FR CNRS 3417, Reims, France
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- School of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Saunders Hall, Blacksburg, VA, United States
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- Université de Reims Champagne Ardenne, RIBP EA4707 USC INRAE 1488, SFR Condorcet FR CNRS 3417, Reims, France
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- Université de Reims Champagne Ardenne, RIBP EA4707 USC INRAE 1488, SFR Condorcet FR CNRS 3417, Reims, France
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Van der Heyden H, Dutilleul P, Duceppe M, Bilodeau GJ, Charron J, Carisse O. Genotyping by sequencing suggests overwintering of Peronospora destructor in southwestern Québec, Canada. MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY 2022; 23:339-354. [PMID: 34921486 PMCID: PMC8828460 DOI: 10.1111/mpp.13158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2021] [Revised: 10/25/2021] [Accepted: 10/26/2021] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Several Peronospora species are carried by wind over short and long distances, from warmer climates where they survive on living plants to cooler climates. In eastern Canada, this annual flow of sporangia was thought to be the main source of Peronospora destructor responsible for onion downy mildew. However, the results of a recent study showed that the increasing frequency of onion downy mildew epidemics in eastern Canada is associated with warmer autumns, milder winters, and previous year disease severity, suggesting overwintering of the inoculum in an area where the pathogen is not known to be endogenous. In this study, genotyping by sequencing was used to investigate the population structure of P. destructor at the landscape scale. The study focused on a particular region of southwestern Québec-Les Jardins de Napierville-to determine if the populations were clonal and regionally differentiated. The data were characterized by a high level of linkage disequilibrium, characteristic of clonal organisms. Consequently, the null hypothesis of random mating was rejected when tested on predefined or nonpredefined populations, indicating that linkage disequilibrium was not a function of population structure and suggesting a mixed reproduction mode. Discriminant analysis of principal components performed with predefined population assignment allowed grouping P. destructor isolates by geographical regions, while analysis of molecular variance confirmed that this genetic differentiation was significant at the regional level. Without using a priori population assignment, isolates were clustered into four genetic clusters. These results represent a baseline estimate of the genetic diversity and population structure of P. destructor.
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- Hervé Van der Heyden
- Cie de Recherche PhytodataSherringtonQuébecCanada
- Department of Plant ScienceMcGill UniversityMontrealQuébecCanada
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- Department of Plant ScienceMcGill UniversityMontrealQuébecCanada
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- Agriculture and Agri‐Food CanadaSt‐Jean‐sur‐RichelieuQuébecCanada
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Skiadas P, Klein J, Quiroz‐Monnens T, Elberse J, de Jonge R, Van den Ackerveken G, Seidl MF. Sexual reproduction contributes to the evolution of resistance-breaking isolates of the spinach pathogen Peronospora effusa. Environ Microbiol 2022; 24:1622-1637. [PMID: 35191594 PMCID: PMC9304176 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.15944] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2021] [Revised: 02/11/2022] [Accepted: 02/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Peronospora effusa causes downy mildew, the economically most important disease of cultivated spinach worldwide. To date, 19 P. effusa races have been denominated based on their capacity to break spinach resistances, but their genetic diversity and the evolutionary processes that contribute to race emergence are unknown. Here, we performed the first systematic analysis of P. effusa races showing that those emerge by both asexual and sexual reproduction. Specifically, we studied the diversity of 26 P. effusa isolates from 16 denominated races based on mitochondrial and nuclear comparative genomics. Mitochondrial genomes based on long-read sequencing coupled with diversity assessment based on short-read sequencing uncovered two mitochondrial haplogroups, each with distinct genome organization. Nuclear genome-wide comparisons of the 26 isolates revealed that 10 isolates from six races could clearly be divided into three asexually evolving groups, in concordance with their mitochondrial phylogeny. The remaining isolates showed signals of reticulated evolution and discordance between nuclear and mitochondrial phylogenies, suggesting that these evolved through sexual reproduction. Increased understanding of this pathogen's reproductive modes will provide the framework for future studies into the molecular mechanisms underlying race emergence and into the P. effusa-spinach interaction, thus assisting in sustainable production of spinach through knowledge-driven resistance breeding.
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- Petros Skiadas
- Theoretical Biology and BioinformaticsUtrecht University, Padualaan 8 3584 CHUtrechtThe Netherlands
- Plant‐Microbe Interactions, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8 3584 CHUtrechtThe Netherlands
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- Plant‐Microbe Interactions, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8 3584 CHUtrechtThe Netherlands
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- Plant‐Microbe Interactions, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8 3584 CHUtrechtThe Netherlands
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- Plant‐Microbe Interactions, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8 3584 CHUtrechtThe Netherlands
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- Plant‐Microbe Interactions, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8 3584 CHUtrechtThe Netherlands
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- Theoretical Biology and BioinformaticsUtrecht University, Padualaan 8 3584 CHUtrechtThe Netherlands
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Shi J, Ye W, Ma D, Yin J, Zhang Z, Wang Y, Qiao Y. Improved Whole-Genome Sequence of Phytophthora capsici Generated by Long-Read Sequencing. MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS : MPMI 2021; 34:866-869. [PMID: 33720746 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-12-20-0356-a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The soilborne oomycete Phytophthora capsici is the most destructive pathogen of vegetable crops and is responsible for substantial economic losses worldwide. Here, we present an improved genome assembly of P. capsici generated by Oxford Nanopore long-read sequencing (for de novo assembly) and Illumina short-read sequencing (for polishing). The genome of P. capsici is 100.5 Mb in length (GC content = 50.8%) and contains 26,069 predicted protein-coding genes. The whole genome of P. capsici is assembled into 194 scaffolds, 90% of which are larger than 300 kb. The N50 scaffold length and maximum scaffold length are 1.0 and 4.1 Mb, respectively. The whole-genome sequence of P. capsici will broaden our knowledge of this pathogen and enhance our understanding of the molecular basis of its pathogenicity, which will facilitate the development of effective management strategies.[Formula: see text] Copyright © 2021 The Author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license.
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- Jinxia Shi
- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Sciences, College of Life Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210095, China
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- College of Agriculture, Yangtze University, Jingzhou 434025, China
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- College of Agriculture, Yangtze University, Jingzhou 434025, China
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210095, China
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210095, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Sciences, College of Life Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China
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Bhattarai G, Yang W, Shi A, Feng C, Dhillon B, Correll JC, Mou B. High resolution mapping and candidate gene identification of downy mildew race 16 resistance in spinach. BMC Genomics 2021; 22:478. [PMID: 34174825 PMCID: PMC8234665 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-021-07788-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2020] [Accepted: 06/10/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background Downy mildew, the most devastating disease of spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.), is caused by the oomycete Peronospora effusa [=P. farinosa f. sp. spinaciae]. The P. effusa shows race specificities to the resistant host and comprises 19 reported races and many novel isolates. Sixteen new P. effusa races were identified during the past three decades, and the new pathogen races are continually overcoming the genetic resistances used in commercial cultivars. A spinach breeding population derived from the cross between cultivars Whale and Lazio was inoculated with P. effusa race 16 in an environment-controlled facility; disease response was recorded and genotyped using genotyping by sequencing (GBS). The main objective of this study was to identify resistance-associated single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers from the cultivar Whale against the P. effusa race 16. Results Association analysis conducted using GBS markers identified six significant SNPs (S3_658,306, S3_692697, S3_1050601, S3_1227787, S3_1227802, S3_1231197). The downy mildew resistance locus from cultivar Whale was mapped to a 0.57 Mb region on chromosome 3, including four disease resistance candidate genes (Spo12736, Spo12784, Spo12908, and Spo12821) within 2.69–11.28 Kb of the peak SNP. Conclusions Genomewide association analysis approach was used to map the P. effusa race 16 resistance loci and identify associated SNP markers and the candidate genes. The results from this study could be valuable in understanding the genetic basis of downy mildew resistance, and the SNP marker will be useful in spinach breeding to select resistant lines.
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- Gehendra Bhattarai
- Department of Horticulture, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, 72701, USA
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- Department of Horticulture, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, 72701, USA
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- Department of Horticulture, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, 72701, USA.
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- Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, 72701, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Florida - Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center, Davie, FL, 33314, USA
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- Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, 72701, USA.
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- USDA-ARS Crop Improvement and Protection Research Unit, Salinas, CA, 93906, USA.
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Gómez-Pérez D, Kemen E. Predicting Lifestyle from Positive Selection Data and Genome Properties in Oomycetes. Pathogens 2021; 10:807. [PMID: 34202069 PMCID: PMC8308905 DOI: 10.3390/pathogens10070807] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2021] [Revised: 06/19/2021] [Accepted: 06/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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As evidenced in parasitism, host and niche shifts are a source of genomic and phenotypic diversification. Exemplary is a reduction in the core metabolism as parasites adapt to a particular host, while the accessory genome often maintains a high degree of diversification. However, selective pressures acting on the genome of organisms that have undergone recent lifestyle or host changes have not been fully investigated. Here, we developed a comparative genomics approach to study underlying adaptive trends in oomycetes, a eukaryotic phylum with a wide and diverse range of economically important plant and animal parasitic lifestyles. Our analysis reveals converging evolution on biological processes for oomycetes that have similar lifestyles. Moreover, we find that certain functions, in particular carbohydrate metabolism, transport, and signaling, are important for host and environmental adaptation in oomycetes. Given the high correlation between lifestyle and genome properties in our oomycete dataset, together with the known convergent evolution of fungal and oomycete genomes, we developed a model that predicts plant pathogenic lifestyles with high accuracy based on functional annotations. These insights into how selective pressures correlate with lifestyle may be crucial to better understand host/lifestyle shifts and their impact on the genome.
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- Center for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), University of Tübingen, 72074 Tübingen, Germany;
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Bhattarai G, Shi A, Feng C, Dhillon B, Mou B, Correll JC. Genome Wide Association Studies in Multiple Spinach Breeding Populations Refine Downy Mildew Race 13 Resistance Genes. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2020; 11:563187. [PMID: 33193490 PMCID: PMC7609621 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.563187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2020] [Accepted: 09/16/2020] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Downy mildew, caused by the oomycete Peronospora effusa, is the most economically important disease on spinach. Fourteen new races of P. effusa have been identified in the last three decades. The frequent emergence of new races of P. effusa continually overcome the genetic resistance to the pathogen. The objectives of this research were to more clearly map the downy mildew resistance locus RPF1 in spinach, to identify single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers associated with the resistance, and to refine the candidate genes responsible for the resistance. Progeny from populations generated from crosses of cultivars resistant (due to RPF1) to race 13 of P. effusa (Swan, T-Bird, Squirrel, and Tonga) with race 13 susceptible cultivars (Whale and Polka) were inoculated and the downy mildew disease response determined. Association analysis was performed in TASSEL, GAPIT, PLINK, and GENESIS programs using SNP markers identified from genotyping by sequencing (GBS). Association analysis mapped the race 13 resistance loci (RPF1) to positions 0.39, 0.69, 0.94-0.98, and 1.2 Mb of chromosome 3. The associated SNPs were within 1-7 kb of the disease resistance genes Spo12784, Spo12719, Spo12905, and Spo12821, and 11-18 Kb from Spo12903. This study extended our understanding of the genetic basis of downy mildew resistance in spinach and provided the most promising candidate genes Spo12784 and Spo12903 near the RPF1 locus, to pursue functional validation. The SNP markers may be used to select for the resistant lines to improve genetic resistance against the downy mildew pathogen and in developing durably resistant cultivars.
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- Gehendra Bhattarai
- Department of Horticulture, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States
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- Department of Horticulture, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States
- Department of Plant Pathology, Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Davie, FL, United States
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- Crop Improvement and Protection Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Salinas, CA, United States
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States
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Dhillon B, Feng C, Villarroel-Zeballos MI, Castroagudin VL, Bhattarai G, Klosterman SJ, Correll JC. Sporangiospore Viability and Oospore Production in the Spinach Downy Mildew Pathogen, Peronospora effusa. PLANT DISEASE 2020; 104:2634-2641. [PMID: 32787734 DOI: 10.1094/pdis-02-20-0334-re] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Downy mildew of spinach, caused by the obligate pathogen Peronospora effusa, remains the most important constraint in the major spinach production areas in the United States. This disease can potentially be initiated by asexual sporangiospores via "green bridges", sexually derived oospores from seed or soil, or dormant mycelium. However, the relative importance of the various types of primary inoculum is not well known. The ability of P. effusa sporangiospores to withstand abiotic stress, such as desiccation, and remain viable during short- and long-distance dispersal and the ability of oospores to germinate and infect seedlings remain unclear. Thus, the primary objectives of this research were to evaluate the impact of desiccation on sporangiospore survival and infection efficiency and examine occurrence, production, and germination of oospores. Results indicate that desiccation significantly reduces sporangiospore viability as well as infection potential. Leaf wetness duration of 4 h was needed for disease establishment by spinach downy mildew sporangiospores. Oospores were observed in leaves of numerous commercial spinach cultivars grown in California in 2018 and Arizona in 2019. Frequency of occurrence varied between the two states-years. The presence of opposite mating types in spinach production areas in the United States was demonstrated by pairing isolates in controlled crosses and producing oospores on detached leaves as well as intact plants. Information from the study of variables that affect sporangiospore viability and oospore production will help in improving our understanding of the epidemiology of this important pathogen, which has implications for management of spinach downy mildew.
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- Braham Dhillon
- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701
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- Department of Horticulture, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701
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Klein J, Neilen M, van Verk M, Dutilh BE, Van den Ackerveken G. Genome reconstruction of the non-culturable spinach downy mildew Peronospora effusa by metagenome filtering. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0225808. [PMID: 32396560 PMCID: PMC7217449 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0225808] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2019] [Accepted: 04/24/2020] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Peronospora effusa (previously known as P. farinosa f. sp. spinaciae, and here referred to as Pfs) is an obligate biotrophic oomycete that causes downy mildew on spinach (Spinacia oleracea). To combat this destructive many disease resistant cultivars have been bred and used. However, new Pfs races rapidly break the employed resistance genes. To get insight into the gene repertoire of Pfs and identify infection-related genes, the genome of the first reference race, Pfs1, was sequenced, assembled, and annotated. Due to the obligate biotrophic nature of this pathogen, material for DNA isolation can only be collected from infected spinach leaves that, however, also contain many other microorganisms. The obtained sequences can, therefore, be considered a metagenome. To filter and obtain Pfs sequences we utilized the CAT tool to taxonomically annotate ORFs residing on long sequences of a genome pre-assembly. This study is the first to show that CAT filtering performs well on eukaryotic contigs. Based on the taxonomy, determined on multiple ORFs, contaminating long sequences and corresponding reads were removed from the metagenome. Filtered reads were re-assembled to provide a clean and improved Pfs genome sequence of 32.4 Mbp consisting of 8,635 scaffolds. Transcript sequencing of a range of infection time points aided the prediction of a total of 13,277 gene models, including 99 RxLR(-like) effector, and 14 putative Crinkler genes. Comparative analysis identified common features in the predicted secretomes of different obligate biotrophic oomycetes, regardless of their phylogenetic distance. Their secretomes are generally smaller, compared to hemi-biotrophic and necrotrophic oomycete species. We observe a reduction in proteins involved in cell wall degradation, in Nep1-like proteins (NLPs), proteins with PAN/apple domains, and host translocated effectors. The genome of Pfs1 will be instrumental in studying downy mildew virulence and for understanding the molecular adaptations by which new isolates break spinach resistance.
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- Joël Klein
- Department of Biology, Plant-Microbe Interactions, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biology, Plant-Microbe Interactions, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biology, Plant-Microbe Interactions, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Crop Data Science, KeyGene, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biology, Theoretical Biology and Bioinformatics, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biology, Plant-Microbe Interactions, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Katsiani A, Stainton D, Lamour K, Tzanetakis IE. The population structure of Rose rosette virus in the USA. J Gen Virol 2020; 101:676-684. [PMID: 32375952 DOI: 10.1099/jgv.0.001418] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Rose rosette virus (RRV) (genus Emaravirus) is the causal agent of the homonymous disease, the most destructive malady of roses in the USA. Although the importance of the disease is recognized, little sequence information and no full genomes are available for RRV, a multi-segmented RNA virus. To better understand the population structure of the virus we implemented a Hi-Plex PCR amplicon high-throughput sequencing approach to sequence all 7 segments and to quantify polymorphisms in 91 RRV isolates collected from 16 states in the USA. Analysis revealed insertion/deletion (indel) polymorphisms primarily in the 5' and 3' non-coding, but also within coding regions, including some resulting in changes of protein length. Phylogenetic analysis showed little geographical structuring, suggesting that topography does not have a strong influence on virus evolution. Overall, the virus populations were homogeneous, possibly because of regular movement of plants, the recent emergence of RRV and/or because the virus is under strong purification selection to preserve its integrity and biological functions.
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- Asimina Katsiani
- Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Division of Agriculture, University of Arkansas System, Fayetteville AR 72701, USA
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- Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Division of Agriculture, University of Arkansas System, Fayetteville AR 72701, USA
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- Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
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- Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Division of Agriculture, University of Arkansas System, Fayetteville AR 72701, USA
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Hu J, Shrestha S, Zhou Y, Mudge J, Liu X, Lamour K. Dynamic Extreme Aneuploidy (DEA) in the vegetable pathogen Phytophthora capsici and the potential for rapid asexual evolution. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0227250. [PMID: 31910244 PMCID: PMC6946123 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0227250] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2019] [Accepted: 12/16/2019] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Oomycete plant pathogens are difficult to control and routine genetic research is challenging. A major problem is instability of isolates. Here we characterize >600 field and single zoospore isolates of Phytophthora capsici for inheritance of mating type, sensitivity to mefenoxam, chromosome copy number and heterozygous allele frequencies. The A2 mating type was highly unstable with 26% of 241 A2 isolates remaining A2. The A1 mating type was stable. Isolates intermediately resistant to mefenoxam produced fully resistant single-spore progeny. Sensitive isolates remained fully sensitive. Genome re-sequencing of single zoospore isolates revealed extreme aneuploidy; a phenomenon dubbed Dynamic Extreme Aneuploidy (DEA). DEA is characterized by the asexual inheritance of diverse intra-genomic combinations of chromosomal ploidy ranging from 2N to 3N and heterozygous allele frequencies that do not strictly correspond to ploidy. Isolates sectoring on agar media showed dramatically altered heterozygous allele frequencies. DEA can explain the rapid increase of advantageous alleles (e.g. drug resistance), mating type switches and copy neutral loss of heterozygosity (LOH). Although the mechanisms driving DEA are unknown, it can play an important role in adaptation and evolution and seriously hinders all aspects of P. capsici research.
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- Jian Hu
- College of Agro-grassland Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America
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- College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- National Center for Genome Resources, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America
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- College of Plant Pathology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America
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Adachi H, Contreras MP, Harant A, Wu CH, Derevnina L, Sakai T, Duggan C, Moratto E, Bozkurt TO, Maqbool A, Win J, Kamoun S. An N-terminal motif in NLR immune receptors is functionally conserved across distantly related plant species. eLife 2019; 8:e49956. [PMID: 31774397 PMCID: PMC6944444 DOI: 10.7554/elife.49956] [Citation(s) in RCA: 134] [Impact Index Per Article: 26.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2019] [Accepted: 11/23/2019] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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The molecular codes underpinning the functions of plant NLR immune receptors are poorly understood. We used in vitro Mu transposition to generate a random truncation library and identify the minimal functional region of NLRs. We applied this method to NRC4-a helper NLR that functions with multiple sensor NLRs within a Solanaceae receptor network. This revealed that the NRC4 N-terminal 29 amino acids are sufficient to induce hypersensitive cell death. This region is defined by the consensus MADAxVSFxVxKLxxLLxxEx (MADA motif) that is conserved at the N-termini of NRC family proteins and ~20% of coiled-coil (CC)-type plant NLRs. The MADA motif matches the N-terminal α1 helix of Arabidopsis NLR protein ZAR1, which undergoes a conformational switch during resistosome activation. Immunoassays revealed that the MADA motif is functionally conserved across NLRs from distantly related plant species. NRC-dependent sensor NLRs lack MADA sequences indicating that this motif has degenerated in sensor NLRs over evolutionary time.
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- Hiroaki Adachi
- The Sainsbury LaboratoryUniversity of East Anglia, Norwich Research ParkNorwichUnited Kingdom
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- The Sainsbury LaboratoryUniversity of East Anglia, Norwich Research ParkNorwichUnited Kingdom
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- The Sainsbury LaboratoryUniversity of East Anglia, Norwich Research ParkNorwichUnited Kingdom
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- The Sainsbury LaboratoryUniversity of East Anglia, Norwich Research ParkNorwichUnited Kingdom
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- The Sainsbury LaboratoryUniversity of East Anglia, Norwich Research ParkNorwichUnited Kingdom
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- The Sainsbury LaboratoryUniversity of East Anglia, Norwich Research ParkNorwichUnited Kingdom
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- Department of Life SciencesImperial College LondonLondonUnited Kingdom
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- Department of Life SciencesImperial College LondonLondonUnited Kingdom
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- Department of Life SciencesImperial College LondonLondonUnited Kingdom
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- The Sainsbury LaboratoryUniversity of East Anglia, Norwich Research ParkNorwichUnited Kingdom
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- The Sainsbury LaboratoryUniversity of East Anglia, Norwich Research ParkNorwichUnited Kingdom
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- The Sainsbury LaboratoryUniversity of East Anglia, Norwich Research ParkNorwichUnited Kingdom
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Awika HO, Bedre R, Yeom J, Marconi TG, Enciso J, Mandadi KK, Jung J, Avila CA. Developing Growth-Associated Molecular Markers Via High-Throughput Phenotyping in Spinach. THE PLANT GENOME 2019; 12:1-19. [PMID: 33016585 DOI: 10.3835/plantgenome2019.03.0027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2019] [Accepted: 04/22/2019] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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High-throughput imaging and genomic information can be combined to optimize marker development. Genome-wide association studies identified loci associated with plant growth traits. We identified candidate genes associated with plant growth and development. Despite advances in sequencing for genotyping, the lack of rapid, accurate, and reproducible phenotyping platforms has hampered efforts to use genetic analysis to predict traits of interest. Therefore, the use of high-throughput systems to phenotype traits related to crop growth, yield, quality, and resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses has become a major asset for breeding. Here, we assessed the efficacy of unmanned aircraft system (UAS)-based high-throughput phenotyping to obtain data for molecular marker development for spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.) improvement. We used a UAS equipped with a red-green-blue sensor to capture raw images of 284 spinach accessions throughout the crop cycle. Processed images generated orthomosaic and digital surface models for estimating canopy cover, canopy volume, and excess greenness index models. In addition, we manually recorded the number of days to bolting. Genome-wide association studies against a single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) panel obtained by ddRADseq identified 99 SNPs significantly associated with growth parameters. Some of these SNPs are in transcription factor and stress-response genes with possible roles in plant growth and development. The results underscore the utility of combining aerial imaging and genomic data analysis to optimize marker development. This study lays the foundation for the use of UAS-based high-throughput phenotyping for the molecular breeding of spinach.
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- Henry O Awika
- Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center, Weslaco, TX, 78596
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- Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center, Weslaco, TX, 78596
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- Research Institute for Automotive Diagnosis Technology of Multi-scale Organic and Inorganic Structure, Kyungpook National Univ., Korea, 37224
- School of Engineering and Computing Sciences, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX, 78412
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- Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center, Weslaco, TX, 78596
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- Biological and Agricultural Engineering Dep., Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, 77843
- Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center, Weslaco, TX, 78596
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- Dep. of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, 77843
- Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center, Weslaco, TX, 78596
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- School of Engineering and Computing Sciences, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX, 78412
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- Dep. of Horticultural Sciences, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, 77843
- Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center, Weslaco, TX, 78596
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Kandel SL, Mou B, Shishkoff N, Shi A, Subbarao KV, Klosterman SJ. Spinach Downy Mildew: Advances in Our Understanding of the Disease Cycle and Prospects for Disease Management. PLANT DISEASE 2019; 103:791-803. [PMID: 30939071 DOI: 10.1094/pdis-10-18-1720-fe] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Downy mildew on spinach is caused by Peronospora effusa, an oomycete pathogen that poses a challenge to spinach production worldwide, especially in organic production. Following infection, P. effusa produces abundant amounts of asexual sporangia. Sporangia become windborne and initiate new infections locally or distantly, leading to widespread epidemics. Oospores produced from the union of opposite mating types have been observed within infected leaves and seeds and may remain viable for many years. Sexual reproduction increases the genetic diversity of P. effusa through sexual recombination, and thus, the movement of oospores on seed has likely fueled the rapid explosion of new pathotypes in different regions of the world over the past 20 years. This review summarizes recent advances in spinach downy mildew research, especially in light of the findings of oospores in contemporary commercial spinach seed lots as well as their germination. Knowledge of the role of the oospores and other aspects of the disease cycle can directly translate into new and effective disease management strategies.
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- Shyam L Kandel
- 1 USDA-ARS Crop Improvement and Protection Research Unit, Salinas, CA 93905
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- 1 USDA-ARS Crop Improvement and Protection Research Unit, Salinas, CA 93905
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- 2 USDA-ARS Foreign Disease Weed Science Research Unit, Frederick, MD 21702
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- 3 Department of Horticulture, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR; and
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- 4 Department of Plant Pathology, University of California-Davis, Salinas, CA
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Tremblay ÉD, Duceppe MO, Bérubé JA, Kimoto T, Lemieux C, Bilodeau GJ. Screening for Exotic Forest Pathogens to Increase Survey Capacity Using Metagenomics. PHYTOPATHOLOGY 2018; 108:1509-1521. [PMID: 29923801 DOI: 10.1094/phyto-02-18-0028-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Anthropogenic activities have a major impact on the global environment. Canada's natural resources are threatened by the spread of fungal pathogens, which is facilitated by agricultural practices and international trade. Fungi are introduced to new environments and sometimes become established, in which case they can cause disease outbreaks resulting in extensive forest decline. Here, we describe how a nationwide sample collection strategy coupled to next-generation sequencing (NGS) (i.e., metagenomics) can achieve fast and comprehensive screening for exotic invasive species. This methodology can help provide guidance to phytopathology stakeholders such as regulatory agencies. Several regulated invasive species were monitored by processing field samples collected over 3 years (2013 to 2015) near high-risk areas across Canada. Fifteen sequencing runs were required on the Ion Torrent platform to process 398 samples that yielded 45 million reads. High-throughput screening of fungal and oomycete operational taxonomic units using customized fungi-specific ribosomal internal transcribed spacer 1 barcoded primers was performed. Likewise, Phytophthora-specific barcoded primers were used to amplify the adenosine triphosphate synthase subunit 9-nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide dehydrogenase subunit 9 spacer. Several Phytophthora spp. were detected by NGS and confirmed by species-specific quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) assays. The target species Heterobasidion annosum sensu stricto could be detected only through metagenomics. We demonstrated that screening target species using a variety of sampling techniques and NGS-the results of which were validated by qPCR-has the potential to increase survey capacity and detection sensitivity, reduce hands-on time and costs, and assist regulatory agencies to identify ports of entry. Considering that early detection and prevention are the keys in mitigating invasive species damage, our method represents a substantial asset in plant pathology management.
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- Émilie D Tremblay
- First, second, and sixth authors: Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), 3851 Fallowfield Road, Ottawa, Ontario, K2H 8P9, Canada; third author: Natural Resources Canada, Laurentian Forestry Centre, 1055 Du P.E.P.S. Street, P.O. Box 10380 Québec, Québec, G1V 4C7, Canada; fourth author: CFIA, 4321 Still Creek Dr, Burnaby, British Columbia, V5C 6S7, Canada; and fifth author: Institut de biologie intégrative et des systèmes, 1030 avenue de la Médecine, Québec, Québec, G1V 0A6, Canada
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- First, second, and sixth authors: Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), 3851 Fallowfield Road, Ottawa, Ontario, K2H 8P9, Canada; third author: Natural Resources Canada, Laurentian Forestry Centre, 1055 Du P.E.P.S. Street, P.O. Box 10380 Québec, Québec, G1V 4C7, Canada; fourth author: CFIA, 4321 Still Creek Dr, Burnaby, British Columbia, V5C 6S7, Canada; and fifth author: Institut de biologie intégrative et des systèmes, 1030 avenue de la Médecine, Québec, Québec, G1V 0A6, Canada
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- First, second, and sixth authors: Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), 3851 Fallowfield Road, Ottawa, Ontario, K2H 8P9, Canada; third author: Natural Resources Canada, Laurentian Forestry Centre, 1055 Du P.E.P.S. Street, P.O. Box 10380 Québec, Québec, G1V 4C7, Canada; fourth author: CFIA, 4321 Still Creek Dr, Burnaby, British Columbia, V5C 6S7, Canada; and fifth author: Institut de biologie intégrative et des systèmes, 1030 avenue de la Médecine, Québec, Québec, G1V 0A6, Canada
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- First, second, and sixth authors: Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), 3851 Fallowfield Road, Ottawa, Ontario, K2H 8P9, Canada; third author: Natural Resources Canada, Laurentian Forestry Centre, 1055 Du P.E.P.S. Street, P.O. Box 10380 Québec, Québec, G1V 4C7, Canada; fourth author: CFIA, 4321 Still Creek Dr, Burnaby, British Columbia, V5C 6S7, Canada; and fifth author: Institut de biologie intégrative et des systèmes, 1030 avenue de la Médecine, Québec, Québec, G1V 0A6, Canada
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- First, second, and sixth authors: Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), 3851 Fallowfield Road, Ottawa, Ontario, K2H 8P9, Canada; third author: Natural Resources Canada, Laurentian Forestry Centre, 1055 Du P.E.P.S. Street, P.O. Box 10380 Québec, Québec, G1V 4C7, Canada; fourth author: CFIA, 4321 Still Creek Dr, Burnaby, British Columbia, V5C 6S7, Canada; and fifth author: Institut de biologie intégrative et des systèmes, 1030 avenue de la Médecine, Québec, Québec, G1V 0A6, Canada
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- First, second, and sixth authors: Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), 3851 Fallowfield Road, Ottawa, Ontario, K2H 8P9, Canada; third author: Natural Resources Canada, Laurentian Forestry Centre, 1055 Du P.E.P.S. Street, P.O. Box 10380 Québec, Québec, G1V 4C7, Canada; fourth author: CFIA, 4321 Still Creek Dr, Burnaby, British Columbia, V5C 6S7, Canada; and fifth author: Institut de biologie intégrative et des systèmes, 1030 avenue de la Médecine, Québec, Québec, G1V 0A6, Canada
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Feng C, Lamour KH, Bluhm BH, Sharma S, Shrestha S, Dhillon BDS, Correll JC. Genome Sequences of Three Races of Peronospora effusa: A Resource for Studying the Evolution of the Spinach Downy Mildew Pathogen. MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS : MPMI 2018; 31:1230-1231. [PMID: 29944056 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-04-18-0085-a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Downy mildew disease, caused by the obligate oomycete pathogen Peronospora effusa, is the most important economic constraint for spinach production. Three races (races 12, 13, and 14) of P. effusa have been sequenced and assembled. The draft genomes of these three races have been deposited to GenBank and provide useful resources for dissecting the interaction between the host and the pathogen and may provide a framework for determining the mechanism by which new races of the pathogen are rapidly emerging.
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- Chunda Feng
- 1 Department of Plant Pathology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville 72701; and
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- 2 Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville 37996
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- 1 Department of Plant Pathology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville 72701; and
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- 1 Department of Plant Pathology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville 72701; and
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- 2 Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville 37996
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- 1 Department of Plant Pathology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville 72701; and
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Fletcher K, Klosterman SJ, Derevnina L, Martin F, Bertier LD, Koike S, Reyes-Chin-Wo S, Mou B, Michelmore R. Comparative genomics of downy mildews reveals potential adaptations to biotrophy. BMC Genomics 2018; 19:851. [PMID: 30486780 PMCID: PMC6264045 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-018-5214-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2018] [Accepted: 10/31/2018] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Spinach downy mildew caused by the oomycete Peronospora effusa is a significant burden on the expanding spinach production industry, especially for organic farms where synthetic fungicides cannot be deployed to control the pathogen. P. effusa is highly variable and 15 new races have been recognized in the past 30 years. RESULTS We virulence phenotyped, sequenced, and assembled two isolates of P. effusa from the Salinas Valley, California, U.S.A. that were identified as race 13 and 14. These assemblies are high quality in comparison to assemblies of other downy mildews having low total scaffold count (784 & 880), high contig N50s (48 kb & 52 kb), high BUSCO completion and low BUSCO duplication scores and share many syntenic blocks with Phytophthora species. Comparative analysis of four downy mildew and three Phytophthora species revealed parallel absences of genes encoding conserved domains linked to transporters, pathogenesis, and carbohydrate activity in the biotrophic species. Downy mildews surveyed that have lost the ability to produce zoospores have a common loss of flagella/motor and calcium domain encoding genes. Our phylogenomic data support multiple origins of downy mildews from hemibiotrophic progenitors and suggest that common gene losses in these downy mildews may be of genes involved in the necrotrophic stages of Phytophthora spp. CONCLUSIONS We present a high-quality draft genome of Peronospora effusa that will serve as a reference for Peronospora spp. We identified several Pfam domains as under-represented in the downy mildews consistent with the loss of zoosporegenesis and necrotrophy. Phylogenomics provides further support for a polyphyletic origin of downy mildews.
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- Kyle Fletcher
- The Genome Center, Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility, University of California, 451 East Health Sciences Drive, Davis, CA 95616 USA
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- United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Salinas, CA 93905 USA
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- The Genome Center, Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility, University of California, 451 East Health Sciences Drive, Davis, CA 95616 USA
- Present Address: The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UH UK
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- United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Salinas, CA 93905 USA
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- The Genome Center, Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility, University of California, 451 East Health Sciences Drive, Davis, CA 95616 USA
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- UC Davis Cooperative Extension Monterey County, Salinas, CA 93901 USA
- Present Address: TriCal Diagnostics, Hollister, CA 95023 USA
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- The Genome Center, Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility, University of California, 451 East Health Sciences Drive, Davis, CA 95616 USA
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- United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Salinas, CA 93905 USA
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- The Genome Center, Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility, University of California, 451 East Health Sciences Drive, Davis, CA 95616 USA
- Departments of Plant Sciences, Molecular & Cellular Biology, Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of California, Davis, 95616 USA
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Feng C, Saito K, Liu B, Manley A, Kammeijer K, Mauzey SJ, Koike S, Correll JC. New Races and Novel Strains of the Spinach Downy Mildew Pathogen Peronospora effusa. PLANT DISEASE 2018; 102:613-618. [PMID: 30673485 DOI: 10.1094/pdis-05-17-0781-re] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Downy mildew disease, caused by Peronospora effusa (=P. farinosa f. sp. spinaciae [Pfs]), is the most economically important disease of spinach. Current high-density fresh-market spinach production provides conducive conditions for disease development, and downy mildew frequently forces growers to harvest early owing to disease development, to cull symptomatic leaves prior to harvest, or to abandon the field if the disease is too severe. The use of resistant cultivars to manage downy mildew, particularly on increasing acreages of organic spinach production, applies strong selection pressure on the pathogen, and many new races of Pfs have been identified in recent years in spinach production areas worldwide. To monitor the virulence diversity in the Pfs population, downy mildew samples were collected from spinach production areas and tested for race identification based on the disease reactions of a standard set of international spinach differentials. Two new races (designated races 15 and 16) and eight novel strains were identified between 2013 and 2017. The disease reaction of Pfs 15 was similar to race 4, except race 4 could not overcome the resistance imparted by the RPF9 locus. Several resistance loci (RPF1, 2, 4, and 6) were effective in preventing disease caused by Pfs 15. The race Pfs 16 could overcome several resistance loci (RPF2, 4, 5, 9, and 10) but not others (RPF1, 3, 6, and 7). One novel strain (UA1014) could overcome the resistance of spinach resistant loci RPF1 to RPF7 but only infected the cotyledons and not the true leaves of certain cultivars. A new set of near-isogenic lines has been developed and evaluated for disease reactions to the new races and novel strains as differentials. None of the 360 U.S. Department of Agriculture spinach germplasm accessions tested were resistant to Pfs 16 or UA1014. A survey of isolates over several years highlighted the dynamic nature of the virulence diversity of the Pfs population. Identification of virulence diversity and evaluation of the genetics of resistance to Pfs will continue to allow for a more effective disease management strategy through resistance gene deployment.
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- University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, 72701
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- University of California Cooperative Extension, Salinas, 93901
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- University of California Cooperative Extension, Salinas, 93901
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Bueno-Sancho V, Persoons A, Hubbard A, Cabrera-Quio LE, Lewis CM, Corredor-Moreno P, Bunting DCE, Ali S, Chng S, Hodson DP, Madariaga Burrows R, Bryson R, Thomas J, Holdgate S, Saunders DGO. Pathogenomic Analysis of Wheat Yellow Rust Lineages Detects Seasonal Variation and Host Specificity. Genome Biol Evol 2017; 9:3282-3296. [PMID: 29177504 PMCID: PMC5730935 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evx241] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/20/2017] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Recent disease outbreaks caused by (re-)emerging plant pathogens have been associated with expansions in pathogen geographic distribution and increased virulence. For example, in the past two decades' wheat yellow (stripe) rust, Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici, has seen the emergence of new races that are adapted to warmer temperatures, have expanded virulence profiles, and are more aggressive than previous races, leading to wide-scale epidemics. Here, we used field-based genotyping to generate high-resolution data on P. striiformis genetics and carried out global population analysis. We also undertook comparative analysis of the 2014 and 2013 UK populations and assessed the temporal dynamics and host specificity of distinct pathogen genotypes. Our analysis revealed that P. striiformis lineages recently detected in Europe are extremely diverse and in fact similar to globally dispersed populations. In addition, we identified a considerable shift in the UK P. striiformis population structure including the first identification of one infamous race known as Kranich. Next, by establishing the genotype of both the pathogen and host within a single infected field sample, we uncovered evidence for varietal specificity for genetic groups of P. striiformis. Finally, we found potential seasonal specificity for certain genotypes of the pathogen with several lineages identified only in samples collected in late spring and into the summer, whereas one lineage was identified throughout the wheat growing season. Our discovery of which wheat varieties are susceptible to which specific P. striiformis isolates, and when those isolates are prevalent throughout the year, represents a powerful tool for disease management.
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- Crop Genetics, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, United Kingdom
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- ational Institute of Agricultural Botany, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Earlham Institute, Norwich Research Park, United Kingdom
- The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, United Kingdom
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- Crop Genetics, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, United Kingdom
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- The University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Pakistan
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- The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research, Lincoln, New Zealand
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- BASF SE, Agricultural Centre, Limburgerhof, Germany
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- ational Institute of Agricultural Botany, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- ational Institute of Agricultural Botany, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Choudhury RA, Garrett KA, Klosterman SJ, Subbarao KV, McRoberts N. A Framework for Optimizing Phytosanitary Thresholds in Seed Systems. PHYTOPATHOLOGY 2017; 107:1219-1228. [PMID: 28726578 DOI: 10.1094/phyto-04-17-0131-fi] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Seedborne pathogens and pests limit production in many agricultural systems. Quarantine programs help prevent the introduction of exotic pathogens into a country, but few regulations directly apply to reducing the reintroduction and spread of endemic pathogens. Use of phytosanitary thresholds helps limit the movement of pathogen inoculum through seed, but the costs associated with rejected seed lots can be prohibitive for voluntary implementation of phytosanitary thresholds. In this paper, we outline a framework to optimize thresholds for seedborne pathogens, balancing the cost of rejected seed lots and benefit of reduced inoculum levels. The method requires relatively small amounts of data, and the accuracy and robustness of the analysis improves over time as data accumulate from seed testing. We demonstrate the method first and illustrate it with a case study of seedborne oospores of Peronospora effusa, the causal agent of spinach downy mildew. A seed lot threshold of 0.23 oospores per seed could reduce the overall number of oospores entering the production system by 90% while removing 8% of seed lots destined for distribution. Alternative mitigation strategies may result in lower economic losses to seed producers, but have uncertain efficacy. We discuss future challenges and prospects for implementing this approach.
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- Robin Alan Choudhury
- First and second authors: Plant Pathology Department, Institute for Sustainable Food Systems, and Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville 32611; third author: U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, 1636 E. Alisal St., Salinas 93905; and first, fourth, and fifth authors: Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis 95616
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- First and second authors: Plant Pathology Department, Institute for Sustainable Food Systems, and Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville 32611; third author: U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, 1636 E. Alisal St., Salinas 93905; and first, fourth, and fifth authors: Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis 95616
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- First and second authors: Plant Pathology Department, Institute for Sustainable Food Systems, and Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville 32611; third author: U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, 1636 E. Alisal St., Salinas 93905; and first, fourth, and fifth authors: Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis 95616
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- First and second authors: Plant Pathology Department, Institute for Sustainable Food Systems, and Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville 32611; third author: U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, 1636 E. Alisal St., Salinas 93905; and first, fourth, and fifth authors: Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis 95616
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- First and second authors: Plant Pathology Department, Institute for Sustainable Food Systems, and Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville 32611; third author: U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, 1636 E. Alisal St., Salinas 93905; and first, fourth, and fifth authors: Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis 95616
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