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Chen DV, Slowinski SP, Kido AK, Bruns EL. High temperatures reduce growth, infection, and transmission of a naturally occurring fungal plant pathogen. Ecology 2024; 105:e4373. [PMID: 38923499 DOI: 10.1002/ecy.4373] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2023] [Revised: 02/29/2024] [Accepted: 05/17/2024] [Indexed: 06/28/2024]
Abstract
Climate change is rapidly altering the distribution of suitable habitats for many species as well as their pathogenic microbes. For many pathogens, including vector-borne diseases of humans and agricultural pathogens, climate change is expected to increase transmission and lead to pathogen range expansions. However, if pathogens have a lower heat tolerance than their host, increased warming could generate so-called thermal refugia for hosts. Predicting the outcomes of warming on disease transmission requires detailed knowledge of the thermal tolerances of both the host and the pathogen. Such thermal tolerance studies are generally lacking for fungal pathogens of wild plant populations, despite the fact that plants form the base of all terrestrial communities. Here, we quantified three aspects of the thermal tolerance (growth, infection, and propagule production) of the naturally occurring fungal pathogen Microbotryum lychnidis-dioicae, which causes a sterilizing anther-smut disease on the herbaceous plant Silene latifolia. We also quantified two aspects of host thermal tolerance: seedling survival and flowering rate. We found that temperatures >30°C reduced the ability of anther-smut spores to germinate, grow, and conjugate in vitro. In addition, we found that high temperatures (30°C) during or shortly after the time of inoculation strongly reduced the likelihood of infection in seedlings. Finally, we found that high summer temperatures in the field temporarily cured infected plants, likely reducing transmission. Notably, high temperatures did not reduce survival or flowering of the host plants. Taken together, our results show that the fungus is considerably more sensitive to high temperatures than its host plant. A warming climate could therefore result in reduced disease spread or even local pathogen extirpation, leading to thermal refugia for the host.
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- Dalia V Chen
- Biology, University of Maryland at College Park, College Park, Maryland, USA
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- Biology, University of Maryland at College Park, College Park, Maryland, USA
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- Biology, University of Maryland at College Park, College Park, Maryland, USA
- Marine Biotechnology, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Biology, University of Maryland at College Park, College Park, Maryland, USA
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Bina H, Yousefzadeh H, Venon A, Remoué C, Rousselet A, Falque M, Faramarzi S, Chen X, Samanchina J, Gill D, Kabaeva A, Giraud T, Hosseinpour B, Abdollahi H, Gabrielyan I, Nersesyan A, Cornille A. Evidence of an additional centre of apple domestication in Iran, with contributions from the Caucasian crab apple Malus orientalis Uglitzk. to the cultivated apple gene pool. Mol Ecol 2022; 31:5581-5601. [PMID: 35984725 DOI: 10.1111/mec.16667] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2021] [Revised: 07/08/2022] [Accepted: 08/09/2022] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
Abstract
Divergence processes in crop-wild fruit tree complexes in pivotal regions for plant domestication such as the Caucasus and Iran remain little studied. We investigated anthropogenic and natural divergence processes in apples in these regions using 26 microsatellite markers amplified in 550 wild and cultivated samples. We found two genetically distinct cultivated populations in Iran that are differentiated from Malus domestica, the standard cultivated apple worldwide. Coalescent-based inferences showed that these two cultivated populations originated from specific domestication events of Malus orientalis in Iran. We found evidence of substantial wild-crop and crop-crop gene flow in the Caucasus and Iran, as has been described in apple in Europe. In addition, we identified seven genetically differentiated populations of wild apple (M. orientalis), not introgressed by the cultivated apple. Niche modelling combined with genetic diversity estimates indicated that these wild populations likely resulted from range changes during past glaciations. This study identifies Iran as a key region in the domestication of apple and M. orientalis as an additional contributor to the cultivated apple gene pool. Domestication of the apple tree therefore involved multiple origins of domestication in different geographic locations and substantial crop-wild hybridization, as found in other fruit trees. This study also highlights the impact of climate change on the natural divergence of a wild fruit tree and provides a starting point for apple conservation and breeding programmes in the Caucasus and Iran.
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- Hamid Bina
- Department of Forestry, Tarbiat Modares University, Noor, Iran
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- Department of Environmental Science, Biodiversity Branch, Natural Resources Faculty, Tarbiat Modares University, Noor, Iran
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- Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, CNRS, AgroParisTech, GQE - Le Moulon, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, CNRS, AgroParisTech, GQE - Le Moulon, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, CNRS, AgroParisTech, GQE - Le Moulon, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, CNRS, AgroParisTech, GQE - Le Moulon, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Department of Plant Production and Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran
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- Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, CNRS, AgroParisTech, GQE - Le Moulon, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Fauna & Flora International, Cambridge, UK
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- Ecologie Systematique Evolution, Universite Paris-Saclay, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Department of Agriculture, Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology (IROST), Institute of Agriculture, Tehran, Iran
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- Temperate Fruits Research Centre, Horticultural Sciences Research Institute, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Karaj, Iran
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- Department of Palaeobotany, A. Takhtajyan Institute of Botany, Armenian National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia
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- Department of Conservation of Genetic Resources of Armenian Flora, A. Takhtajyan Institute of Botany, Armenian National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia
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- Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, CNRS, AgroParisTech, GQE - Le Moulon, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Zhou X, Yu D, Cao Z. Convergence Analysis of Rust Fungi and Anther Smuts Reveals Their Common Molecular Adaptation to a Phytoparasitic Lifestyle. Front Genet 2022; 13:863617. [PMID: 35464858 PMCID: PMC9023891 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2022.863617] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2022] [Accepted: 02/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Convergent evolution between distantly related taxa often mirrors adaptation to similar environments. Rust fungi and anther smuts, which belong to different classes in Pucciniomycotina, have independently evolved a phytoparasitic lifestyle, representing an example of convergent evolution in the fungal kingdom. To investigate their adaptations and the genetic bases underlying their phytoparasitic lifestyles, we performed genome-wide convergence analysis of amino acid substitutions, evolutionary rates, and gene gains and losses. Convergent substitutions were detected in ATPeV0D and RP-S27Ae, two genes important for the generation of turgor pressure and ribosomal biosynthesis, respectively. A total of 51 positively selected genes were identified, including eight genes associated with translation and three genes related to the secretion pathway. In addition, rust fungi and anther smuts contained more proteins associated with oligopeptide transporters and vacuolar proteases than did other fungi. For rust fungi and anther smuts, these forms of convergence suggest four adaptive mechanisms for a phytoparasitic lifestyle: 1) reducing the metabolic demand for hyphal growth and penetration at the pre-penetration stage, 2) maintaining the efficiency of protein synthesis during colonization, 3) ensuring the normal secretion of rapidly evolving secreted proteins, and 4) improving the capacity for oligopeptide metabolism. Our results are the first to shed light on the genetic convergence mechanisms and molecular adaptation underlying phytoparasitic lifestyles in fungi.
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- College of Forestry, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China
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Skrede I, Murat C, Hess J, Maurice S, Sønstebø JH, Kohler A, Barry-Etienne D, Eastwood D, Högberg N, Martin F, Kauserud H. Contrasting demographic histories revealed in two invasive populations of the dry rot fungus Serpula lacrymans. Mol Ecol 2021; 30:2772-2789. [PMID: 33955084 DOI: 10.1111/mec.15934] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2019] [Revised: 04/15/2021] [Accepted: 04/19/2021] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
Abstract
Globalization and international trade have impacted organisms around the world leading to a considerable number of species establishing in new geographic areas. Many organisms have taken advantage of human-made environments, including buildings. One such species is the dry rot fungus Serpula lacrymans, which is the most aggressive wood-decay fungus in indoor environments in temperate regions. Using population genomic analyses of 36 full genome sequenced isolates, we demonstrated that European and Japanese isolates are highly divergent and the populations split 3000-19,000 generations ago, probably predating human influence. Approximately 250 generations ago, the European population went through a tight bottleneck, probably corresponding to the fungus colonization of the built environment in Europe. The demographic history of these populations, probably lead to low adaptive potential. Only two loci under selection were identified using a Fst outlier approach, and selective sweep analyses identified three loci with extended haplotype homozygosity. The selective sweep analyses found signals in genes possibly related to decay of various substrates in Japan and in genes involved DNA replication and protein modification in Europe. Our results suggest that the dry rot fungus independently established in indoor environments in Europe and Japan and that invasive species can potentially establish large populations in new habitats based on a few colonizing individuals.
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- Inger Skrede
- Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- INRAE, UMR Interactions Arbres/Microorganismes, Centre INRAE-GrandEst Lorraine, Université de Lorraine, Champenoux, France
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.,University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- INRAE, UMR Interactions Arbres/Microorganismes, Centre INRAE-GrandEst Lorraine, Université de Lorraine, Champenoux, France
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Swansea, Swansea, UK
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- Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, Swedish Agricultural University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- INRAE, UMR Interactions Arbres/Microorganismes, Centre INRAE-GrandEst Lorraine, Université de Lorraine, Champenoux, France.,Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Tree Breeding by Molecular Design, Institute of Microbiology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
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Stauber L, Badet T, Feurtey A, Prospero S, Croll D. Emergence and diversification of a highly invasive chestnut pathogen lineage across southeastern Europe. eLife 2021; 10:e56279. [PMID: 33666552 PMCID: PMC7935491 DOI: 10.7554/elife.56279] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2020] [Accepted: 02/17/2021] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Invasive microbial species constitute a major threat to biodiversity, agricultural production and human health. Invasions are often dominated by one or a small number of genotypes, yet the underlying factors driving invasions are poorly understood. The chestnut blight fungus Cryphonectria parasitica first decimated the North American chestnut, and a more recent outbreak threatens European chestnut stands. To unravel the chestnut blight invasion of southeastern Europe, we sequenced 230 genomes of predominantly European strains. Genotypes outside of the invasion zone showed high levels of diversity with evidence for frequent and ongoing recombination. The invasive lineage emerged from the highly diverse European genotype pool rather than a secondary introduction from Asia or North America. The expansion across southeastern Europe was mostly clonal and is dominated by a single mating type, suggesting a fitness advantage of asexual reproduction. Our findings show how an intermediary, highly diverse bridgehead population gave rise to an invasive, largely clonally expanding pathogen.
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- Lea Stauber
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL)BirmensdorfSwitzerland
- Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics, Institute of Biology, University of NeuchâtelNeuchâtelSwitzerland
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- Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics, Institute of Biology, University of NeuchâtelNeuchâtelSwitzerland
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- Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics, Institute of Biology, University of NeuchâtelNeuchâtelSwitzerland
- Plant Pathology, Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH ZürichZürichSwitzerland
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- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL)BirmensdorfSwitzerland
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- Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics, Institute of Biology, University of NeuchâtelNeuchâtelSwitzerland
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Kiss L, Vaghefi N, Bransgrove K, Dearnaley JDW, Takamatsu S, Tan YP, Marston C, Liu SY, Jin DN, Adorada DL, Bailey J, Cabrera de Álvarez MG, Daly A, Dirchwolf PM, Jones L, Nguyen TD, Edwards J, Ho W, Kelly L, Mintoff SJL, Morrison J, Németh MZ, Perkins S, Shivas RG, Smith R, Stuart K, Southwell R, Turaganivalu U, Váczy KZ, Blommestein AV, Wright D, Young A, Braun U. Australia: A Continent Without Native Powdery Mildews? The First Comprehensive Catalog Indicates Recent Introductions and Multiple Host Range Expansion Events, and Leads to the Re-discovery of Salmonomyces as a New Lineage of the Erysiphales. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:1571. [PMID: 32765452 PMCID: PMC7378747 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.01571] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2020] [Accepted: 06/17/2020] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
Abstract
In contrast to Eurasia and North America, powdery mildews (Ascomycota, Erysiphales) are understudied in Australia. There are over 900 species known globally, with fewer than currently 60 recorded from Australia. Some of the Australian records are doubtful as the identifications were presumptive, being based on host plant-pathogen lists from overseas. The goal of this study was to provide the first comprehensive catalog of all powdery mildew species present in Australia. The project resulted in (i) an up-to-date list of all the taxa that have been identified in Australia based on published DNA barcode sequences prior to this study; (ii) the precise identification of 117 specimens freshly collected from across the country; and (iii) the precise identification of 30 herbarium specimens collected between 1975 and 2013. This study confirmed 42 species representing 10 genera, including two genera and 13 species recorded for the first time in Australia. In Eurasia and North America, the number of powdery mildew species is much higher. Phylogenetic analyses of powdery mildews collected from Acalypha spp. resulted in the transfer of Erysiphe acalyphae to Salmonomyces, a resurrected genus. Salmonomyces acalyphae comb. nov. represents a newly discovered lineage of the Erysiphales. Another taxonomic change is the transfer of Oidium ixodiae to Golovinomyces. Powdery mildew infections have been confirmed on 13 native Australian plant species in the genera Acacia, Acalypha, Cephalotus, Convolvulus, Eucalyptus, Hardenbergia, Ixodia, Jagera, Senecio, and Trema. Most of the causal agents were polyphagous species that infect many other host plants both overseas and in Australia. All powdery mildews infecting native plants in Australia were phylogenetically closely related to species known overseas. The data indicate that Australia is a continent without native powdery mildews, and most, if not all, species have been introduced since the European colonization of the continent.
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- Levente Kiss
- Centre for Crop Health, Institute for Life Sciences and the Environment, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia
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- Centre for Crop Health, Institute for Life Sciences and the Environment, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia
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- Queensland Plant Pathology Herbarium, Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Dutton Park, QLD, Australia
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- Centre for Crop Health, Institute for Life Sciences and the Environment, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia
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- Centre for Crop Health, Institute for Life Sciences and the Environment, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia
- Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Faculty of Bioresources, Mie University, Tsu, Japan
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- Queensland Plant Pathology Herbarium, Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Dutton Park, QLD, Australia
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- Science and Surveillance Group, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- College of Plant Protection, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun, China
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- College of Plant Protection, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun, China
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- Centre for Crop Health, Institute for Life Sciences and the Environment, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia
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- Plant Pathology & Mycology Herbarium, New South Wales Department of Primary Industries, Orange, NSW, Australia
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- Plant Health Diagnostic Service, New South Wales Department of Primary Industries, Elizabeth Macarthur Agricultural Institute, Menangle, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agricultural Science, National University of the Northeast, Corrientes, Argentina
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- Science and Surveillance Group, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Agriculture Victoria Research, Agriculture Victoria, Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions, Bundoora, VIC, Australia
- School of Applied Systems Biology, La Trobe University, Bundoora, VIC, Australia
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- New Zealand Ministry for Primary Industries, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Queensland Government, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia
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- Department of Primary Industry and Resources, Northern Territory Government, Darwin, NT, Australia
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- Science and Surveillance Group, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Plant Protection Institute, Centre for Agricultural Research, Budapest, Hungary
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- Science and Surveillance Group, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Centre for Crop Health, Institute for Life Sciences and the Environment, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia
- Queensland Plant Pathology Herbarium, Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Dutton Park, QLD, Australia
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- Agriculture Victoria Research, Agriculture Victoria, Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions, Bundoora, VIC, Australia
- School of Applied Systems Biology, La Trobe University, Bundoora, VIC, Australia
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- Ecosciences Precinct, Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Dutton Park, QLD, Australia
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- Science and Surveillance Group, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Food and Wine Research Institute, Eszterházy Károly University, Eger, Hungary
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- Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, South Perth, WA, Australia
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- Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, South Perth, WA, Australia
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- School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Herbarium, Department of Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Institute for Biology, Martin Luther University, Halle (Saale), Germany
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Hood ME, Antonovics J, Wolf M, Stern ZL, Giraud T, Abbate JL. Sympatry and interference of divergent Microbotryum pathogen species. Ecol Evol 2019; 9:5457-5467. [PMID: 31110694 PMCID: PMC6509394 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.5140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2019] [Revised: 03/05/2019] [Accepted: 03/15/2019] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
Abstract
The impact of infectious diseases in natural ecosystems is strongly influenced by the degree of pathogen specialization and by the local assemblies of potential host species. This study investigated anther-smut disease, caused by fungi in the genus Microbotryum, among natural populations of plants in the Caryophyllaceae. A broad geographic survey focused on sites of the disease on multiple host species in sympatry. Analysis of molecular identities for the pathogens revealed that sympatric disease was most often due to co-occurrence of distinct, host-specific anther-smut fungi, rather than localized cross-species disease transmission. Flowers from sympatric populations showed that the Microbotryum spores were frequently moved between host species. Experimental inoculations to simulate cross-species exposure to the pathogens in these plant communities showed that the anther-smut pathogen was less able to cause disease on its regular host when following exposure of the plants to incompatible pathogens from another host species. These results indicate that multi-host/multi-pathogen communities are common in this system and they involve a previously hidden mechanism of interference between Microbotryum fungi, which likely affects both pathogen and host distributions.
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- Department of BiologyUniversity of VirginiaCharlottesvilleVirginia
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- Department of BiologyAmherst CollegeAmherstMassachusetts
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- Ecologie Systematique et Evolution, Univ. Paris‐Sud, CNRS, AgroParisTechUniversité Paris SaclayOrsayFrance
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- Department of BiologyUniversity of VirginiaCharlottesvilleVirginia
- INRA ‐ UMR 1062 CBGP (INRA, IRD, CIRAD, Montpellier SupAgro)Montferrier‐sur‐LezFrance
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Kiss L, Kovács GM, Bóka K, Bohár G, Bohárné KV, Németh MZ, Takamatsu S, Shin HD, Hayova V, Nischwitz C, Seier MK, Evans HC, Cannon PF, Ash GJ, Shivas RG, Müller-Schärer H. Deciphering the biology of Cryptophyllachora eurasiatica gen. et sp. nov., an often cryptic pathogen of an allergenic weed, Ambrosia artemisiifolia. Sci Rep 2018; 8:10806. [PMID: 30018297 PMCID: PMC6050288 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-29102-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2018] [Accepted: 06/26/2018] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
Abstract
A little known, unculturable ascomycete, referred to as Phyllachora ambrosiae, can destroy the inflorescences of Ambrosia artemisiifolia, an invasive agricultural weed and producer of highly allergenic pollen. The fungus often remains undetectable in ragweed populations. This work was conducted to understand its origin and pathogenesis, a prerequisite to consider its potential as a biocontrol agent. The methods used included light and transmission electron microscopy, nrDNA sequencing, phylogenetic analyses, artificial inoculations, and the examination of old herbarium and recent field specimens from Hungary, Korea, Ukraine and USA. The Eurasian and the North American specimens of this fungus were to represent two distinct, although closely related lineages that were only distantly related to other lineages within the Ascomycota. Consequently, we describe a new genus that includes Cryptophyllachora eurasiatica gen. et sp. nov. and C. ambrosiae comb. nov., respectively. The pathogenesis of C. eurasiatica was shown in A. artemisiifolia. No evidence was found for either seed-borne transmission or systemic infection. Two hypotheses were developed to explain the interaction between C. eurasiatica and A. artemisiifolia: (i) as yet undetected seed-borne transmissions and latent, systemic infections; or (ii) alternative hosts.
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- Levente Kiss
- University of Southern Queensland, Centre for Crop Health, Toowoomba, Qld, 4350, Australia.
- Plant Protection Institute, Centre for Agricultural Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA-ATK), Budapest, H-1525, Hungary.
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- Plant Protection Institute, Centre for Agricultural Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA-ATK), Budapest, H-1525, Hungary
- Eötvös Loránd University, Institute of Biology, Department of Plant Anatomy, Budapest, H-1117, Hungary
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- Eötvös Loránd University, Institute of Biology, Department of Plant Anatomy, Budapest, H-1117, Hungary
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- Biovéd 2005 Ltd., Kemenestaródfa, H-9923, Hungary
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- Plant Protection Institute, Centre for Agricultural Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA-ATK), Budapest, H-1525, Hungary
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- Mie University, Graduate School of Bioresources, Tsu, 514-8507, Japan
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- Korea University, Division of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, Seoul, 02841, Korea
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- National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany, Kyiv, 01004, Ukraine
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- CABI Europe-UK, Egham, Surrey, TW20 9TY, United Kingdom
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Jodrell Laboratory, Mycology Section, Kew, TW9 3AB, United Kingdom
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- University of Southern Queensland, Centre for Crop Health, Toowoomba, Qld, 4350, Australia
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- University of Southern Queensland, Centre for Crop Health, Toowoomba, Qld, 4350, Australia
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- University of Fribourg, Department of Biology/Ecology & Evolution, Fribourg, CH-1700, Switzerland
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Antonovics J, Abbate JL, Bruns EL, Fields PD, Forrester NJ, Gilbert KJ, Hood ME, Park T, Taylor DR. Effect of the anther-smut fungus Microbotryum on the juvenile growth of its host Silene latifolia. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY 2018; 105:1088-1095. [PMID: 29995339 DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.1114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2018] [Accepted: 03/21/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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PREMISE OF THE STUDY Plant pathogens that form persistent systemic infections within plants have the potential to affect multiple plant life history traits, yet we tend to focus only on visible symptoms. Anther smut of Silene latifolia caused by the fungus Microbotryum lychnidis-dioicae induces the anthers of its host to support fungal spore production instead of pollen, and the pathogen is primarily transmitted among flowering plants by pollinators. Nevertheless, most of its life cycle is spent in the asymptomatic vegetative phase, and spores falling on seedlings or nonflowering plants can also infect the host. The purpose of this study was to ask whether the fungus also had an effect on its host plant in the juvenile vegetative phase before flowering as this is important for the disease dynamics in species where infection of seedlings is commonplace. METHODS Leaf length and leaf number of inoculated and uninoculated juvenile plants were compared in greenhouse experiments, and in one experiment, disease status of the plants at flowering was determined. KEY RESULTS Inoculated plants had shorter but more leaves, and reduced root mass at the early juvenile (preflowering) stage. Some of these effects were detectable in plants that were inoculated but showed no disease symptoms at flowering. CONCLUSIONS These results show that pathogenic fungi can have endophyte-like effects even in the total absence of their typical and more charismatic symptoms, and conversely that the assessment of endophyte effects on the fitness of their hosts should include all stages of the host life cycle.
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- Janis Antonovics
- Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22904, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22904, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22904, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22904, USA
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- Biology Department, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, 01003, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22904, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22904, USA
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Lombaert E, Guillemaud T, Deleury E. Biases of STRUCTURE software when exploring introduction routes of invasive species. Heredity (Edinb) 2018; 120:485-499. [PMID: 29339802 DOI: 10.1038/s41437-017-0042-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2017] [Revised: 10/06/2017] [Accepted: 11/28/2017] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Population genetic methods are widely used to retrace the introduction routes of invasive species. The unsupervised Bayesian clustering algorithm implemented in STRUCTURE is amongst the most frequently used of these methods, but its ability to provide reliable information about introduction routes has never been assessed. We simulated microsatellite datasets to evaluate the extent to which the results provided by STRUCTURE were misleading for the inference of introduction routes. We focused on an invasion scenario involving one native and two independently introduced populations, because it is the sole scenario that can be rejected when obtaining a particular clustering with a STRUCTURE analysis at K = 2 (two clusters). Results were classified as "misleading" or "non-misleading". We investigated the influence of effective size, bottleneck severity and number of loci on the type and frequency of misleading results. We showed that misleading STRUCTURE results were obtained for 10% of all simulated datasets. Our results highlighted two categories of misleading output. The first occurs when the native population has a low level of diversity. In this case, the two introduced populations may be very similar, despite their independent introduction histories. The second category results from convergence issues in STRUCTURE for K = 2, with strong bottleneck severity and/or large numbers of loci resulting in high levels of differentiation between the three populations. Overall, the risk of being misled by STRUCTURE in the context of introduction routes inferences is moderate, but it is important to remain cautious when low genetic diversity or genuine multimodality between runs are involved.
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- Eric Lombaert
- INRA, CNRS, Université Côte d'Azur, ISA, Paris, France.
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Petit E, Silver C, Cornille A, Gladieux P, Rosenthal L, Bruns E, Yee S, Antonovics J, Giraud T, Hood ME. Co-occurrence and hybridization of anther-smut pathogens specialized on Dianthus hosts. Mol Ecol 2017; 26:1877-1890. [PMID: 28231407 DOI: 10.1111/mec.14073] [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] [Received: 10/19/2016] [Revised: 01/13/2017] [Accepted: 02/09/2017] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Host specialization has important consequences for the diversification and ecological interactions of obligate pathogens. The anther-smut disease of natural plant populations, caused by Microbotryum fungi, has been characterized by specialized host-pathogen interactions, which contribute in part to the isolation among these numerous fungal species. This study investigated the molecular variation of Microbotryum pathogens within the geographic and host-specific distributions on wild Dianthus species in southern European Alps. In contrast to prior studies on this pathogen genus, a range of overlapping host specificities was observed for four delineated Microbotryum lineages on Dianthus hosts, and their frequent co-occurrence within single-host populations was quantified at local and regional scales. In addition to potential consequences for direct pathogen competition, the sympatry of Microbotryum lineages led to hybridization between them in many populations, and these admixed genotypes suffered significant meiotic sterility. Therefore, this investigation of the anther-smut fungi reveals how variation in the degrees of host specificity can have major implications for ecological interactions and genetic integrity of differentiated pathogen lineages.
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- Elsa Petit
- Stockbridge School of Agriculture, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
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- Biology Department, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, 01002, USA
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- Center for Adaptation to a Changing Environment, ETH Zürich, 8092, Zürich, Switzerland
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- UMR BGPI, INRA, Campus International de Baillarguet, 34398, Montpellier, France
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- Biology Department, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, 01002, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22903, USA
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- Biology Department, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, 01002, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22903, USA
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- Ecologie Systematique Evolution, CNRS, University of Paris-Sud, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, 91400, Orsay, France
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- Biology Department, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, 01002, USA
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Fortuna TM, Snirc A, Badouin H, Gouzy J, Siguenza S, Esquerre D, Le Prieur S, Shykoff JA, Giraud T. Polymorphic Microsatellite Markers for the Tetrapolar Anther-Smut Fungus Microbotryum saponariae Based on Genome Sequencing. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0165656. [PMID: 27832131 PMCID: PMC5104459 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0165656] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2016] [Accepted: 10/14/2016] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Background Anther-smut fungi belonging to the genus Microbotryum sterilize their host plants by aborting ovaries and replacing pollen by fungal spores. Sibling Microbotryum species are highly specialized on their host plants and they have been widely used as models for studies of ecology and evolution of plant pathogenic fungi. However, most studies have focused, so far, on M. lychnidis-dioicae that parasitizes the white campion Silene latifolia. Microbotryum saponariae, parasitizing mainly Saponaria officinalis, is an interesting anther-smut fungus, since it belongs to a tetrapolar lineage (i.e., with two independently segregating mating-type loci), while most of the anther-smut Microbotryum fungi are bipolar (i.e., with a single mating-type locus). Saponaria officinalis is a widespread long-lived perennial plant species with multiple flowering stems, which makes its anther-smut pathogen a good model for studying phylogeography and within-host multiple infections. Principal Findings Here, based on a generated genome sequence of M. saponariae we developed 6 multiplexes with a total of 22 polymorphic microsatellite markers using an inexpensive and efficient method. We scored these markers in fungal individuals collected from 97 populations across Europe, and found that the number of their alleles ranged from 2 to 11, and their expected heterozygosity from 0.01 to 0.58. Cross-species amplification was examined using nine other Microbotryum species parasitizing hosts belonging to Silene, Dianthus and Knautia genera. All loci were successfully amplified in at least two other Microbotryum species. Significance These newly developed markers will provide insights into the population genetic structure and the occurrence of within-host multiple infections of M. saponariae. In addition, the draft genome of M. saponariae, as well as one of the described markers will be useful resources for studying the evolution of the breeding systems in the genus Microbotryum and the evolution of specialization onto different plant species.
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- Taiadjana M. Fortuna
- Laboratoire d’Ecologie Systématique Evolution, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, 91400, Orsay, France
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- Laboratoire d’Ecologie Systématique Evolution, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, 91400, Orsay, France
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- Laboratoire d’Ecologie Systématique Evolution, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, 91400, Orsay, France
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- INRA, Laboratoire des Interactions Plantes-Microorganismes (LIPM), UMR441, Castanet-Tolosan, F-31326, France
- CNRS, Laboratoire des Interactions Plantes-Microorganismes (LIPM), UMR2594, Castanet-Tolosan, F-31326, France
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- INRA, Laboratoire des Interactions Plantes-Microorganismes (LIPM), UMR441, Castanet-Tolosan, F-31326, France
- CNRS, Laboratoire des Interactions Plantes-Microorganismes (LIPM), UMR2594, Castanet-Tolosan, F-31326, France
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- GenPhySE, Université de Toulouse, INRA, INPT, ENVT, Castanet-Tolosan, F-31326, France
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- Laboratoire d’Ecologie Systématique Evolution, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, 91400, Orsay, France
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- Laboratoire d’Ecologie Systématique Evolution, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, 91400, Orsay, France
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- Laboratoire d’Ecologie Systématique Evolution, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, 91400, Orsay, France
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Feurtey A, Gladieux P, Hood ME, Snirc A, Cornille A, Rosenthal L, Giraud T. Strong phylogeographic co-structure between the anther-smut fungus and its white campion host. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2016; 212:668-679. [PMID: 27500396 DOI: 10.1111/nph.14125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2016] [Accepted: 06/18/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Although congruence between host and pathogen phylogenies has been extensively investigated, the congruence between host and pathogen genetic structures at the within-species level has received little attention. Using an unprecedented and comprehensive collection of associated plant-pathogen samples, we investigated the degree of congruence between the genetic structures across Europe of two evolutionary and ecological model organisms, the anther-smut pathogen Microbotryum lychnidis-dioicae and its host plant Silene latifolia. We demonstrated a significant and particularly strong level of host-pathogen co-structure, with three main genetic clusters displaying highly similar spatial ranges in Western Europe, Eastern Europe and Italy, respectively. Correcting for the geographical component of genetic variation, significant correlations were still found between the genetic distances of anther-smut and host populations. Inoculation experiments suggested plant local adaptation, at the cluster level, for resistance to pathogens. These findings indicate that the pathogen remained isolated in the same fragmented southern refugia as its host plant during the last glaciation, and that little long-distance dispersal has occurred since the recolonization of Europe for either the plant or the pathogen, despite their known ability to travel across continents. This, together with the inoculation results, suggests that coevolutionary and competitive processes may be drivers of host-pathogen co-structure.
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- Alice Feurtey
- Ecologie Systématique Evolution, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, 91400, France
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- Ecologie Systématique Evolution, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, 91400, France
- UMR BGPI, INRA, Montpellier, 34398, France
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- Department of Biology, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, 01002, USA
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- Ecologie Systématique Evolution, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, 91400, France
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- Ecologie Systématique Evolution, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, 91400, France
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- Department of Biology, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, 01002, USA
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- Ecologie Systématique Evolution, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, 91400, France.
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Bueker B, Eberlein C, Gladieux P, Schaefer A, Snirc A, Bennett DJ, Begerow D, Hood ME, Giraud T. Distribution and population structure of the anther smut Microbotryum silenes-acaulis parasitizing an arctic-alpine plant. Mol Ecol 2016; 25:811-24. [PMID: 26671732 DOI: 10.1111/mec.13512] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2015] [Revised: 11/02/2015] [Accepted: 11/26/2015] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
Abstract
Cold-adapted organisms with current arctic-alpine distributions have persisted during the last glaciation in multiple ice-free refugia, leaving footprints in their population structure that contrast with temperate plants and animals. However, pathogens that live within hosts having arctic-alpine distributions have been little studied. Here, we therefore investigated the geographical range and population structure of a fungus parasitizing an arctic-alpine plant. A total of 1437 herbarium specimens of the plant Silene acaulis were examined, and the anther smut pathogen Microbotryum silenes-acaulis was present throughout the host's geographical range. There was significantly greater incidence of anther smut disease in more northern latitudes and where the host locations were less dense, indicating a major influence of environmental factors and/or host demographic structure on the pathogen distribution. Genetic analyses with seven microsatellite markers on recent collections of 195 M. silenes-acaulis individuals revealed three main genetic clusters, in North America, northern Europe and southern Europe, likely corresponding to differentiation in distinct refugia during the last glaciation. The lower genetic diversity in northern Europe indicates postglacial recolonization northwards from southern refugia. This study combining herbarium surveys and population genetics thus uniquely reveals the effects of climate and environmental factors on a plant pathogen species with an arctic-alpine distribution.
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- Britta Bueker
- Lehrstuhl für Evolution und Biodiversität der Pflanzen, AG Geobotanik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsstraße 150, 44780, Bochum, Germany.,Department of Biology, Amherst College, 220 South Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA, 01002, USA
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- Lehrstuhl für Evolution und Biodiversität der Pflanzen, AG Geobotanik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsstraße 150, 44780, Bochum, Germany.,Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes, Département de Biologie, PROTEO, Université Laval, Pavillon Charles-Eugène-Marchand, 1030 Avenue de la Médicine, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, G1V 0A6
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- Ecologie Systématique Evolution, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, 91400, Orsay, France.,INRA, UMR BGPI, Bâtiment K, Campus International de Baillarguet, F-34398, Montpellier, France.,CIRAD, F-34398, Montpellier, France
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- Lehrstuhl für Evolution und Biodiversität der Pflanzen, AG Geobotanik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsstraße 150, 44780, Bochum, Germany
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- Ecologie Systématique Evolution, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, 91400, Orsay, France
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- Ecologie Systématique Evolution, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, 91400, Orsay, France.,Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Lehrstuhl für Evolution und Biodiversität der Pflanzen, AG Geobotanik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsstraße 150, 44780, Bochum, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Amherst College, 220 South Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA, 01002, USA
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- Ecologie Systématique Evolution, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, 91400, Orsay, France
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Gallet R, Fontaine C, Bonnot F, Milazzo J, Tertois C, Adreit H, Ravigné V, Fournier E, Tharreau D. Evolution of Compatibility Range in the Rice-Magnaporthe oryzae System: An Uneven Distribution of R Genes Between Rice Subspecies. PHYTOPATHOLOGY 2016; 106:348-354. [PMID: 26667186 DOI: 10.1094/phyto-07-15-0169-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Efficient strategies for limiting the impact of pathogens on crops require a good understanding of the factors underlying the evolution of compatibility range for the pathogens and host plants, i.e., the set of host genotypes that a particular pathogen genotype can infect and the set of pathogen genotypes that can infect a particular host genotype. Until now, little is known about the evolutionary and ecological factors driving compatibility ranges in systems implicating crop plants. We studied the evolution of host and pathogen compatibility ranges for rice blast disease, which is caused by the ascomycete Magnaporthe oryzae. We challenged 61 rice varieties from three rice subspecies with 31 strains of M. oryzae collected worldwide from all major known genetic groups. We determined the compatibility range of each plant variety and pathogen genotype and the severity of each plant-pathogen interaction. Compatibility ranges differed between rice subspecies, with the most resistant subspecies selecting for pathogens with broader compatibility ranges and the least resistant subspecies selecting for pathogens with narrower compatibility ranges. These results are consistent with a nested distribution of R genes between rice subspecies.
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- Romain Gallet
- First and eighth authors: INRA, UMR BGPI, F-34398 Montpellier, France; second author: Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation-UMR 7204, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France; third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and ninth authors: CIRAD, UMR BGPI, F-34398 Montpellier, France; and seventh author: CIRAD, UMR PVBMT, F-97410 Saint-Pierre, France
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- First and eighth authors: INRA, UMR BGPI, F-34398 Montpellier, France; second author: Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation-UMR 7204, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France; third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and ninth authors: CIRAD, UMR BGPI, F-34398 Montpellier, France; and seventh author: CIRAD, UMR PVBMT, F-97410 Saint-Pierre, France
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- First and eighth authors: INRA, UMR BGPI, F-34398 Montpellier, France; second author: Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation-UMR 7204, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France; third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and ninth authors: CIRAD, UMR BGPI, F-34398 Montpellier, France; and seventh author: CIRAD, UMR PVBMT, F-97410 Saint-Pierre, France
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- First and eighth authors: INRA, UMR BGPI, F-34398 Montpellier, France; second author: Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation-UMR 7204, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France; third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and ninth authors: CIRAD, UMR BGPI, F-34398 Montpellier, France; and seventh author: CIRAD, UMR PVBMT, F-97410 Saint-Pierre, France
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- First and eighth authors: INRA, UMR BGPI, F-34398 Montpellier, France; second author: Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation-UMR 7204, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France; third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and ninth authors: CIRAD, UMR BGPI, F-34398 Montpellier, France; and seventh author: CIRAD, UMR PVBMT, F-97410 Saint-Pierre, France
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- First and eighth authors: INRA, UMR BGPI, F-34398 Montpellier, France; second author: Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation-UMR 7204, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France; third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and ninth authors: CIRAD, UMR BGPI, F-34398 Montpellier, France; and seventh author: CIRAD, UMR PVBMT, F-97410 Saint-Pierre, France
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- First and eighth authors: INRA, UMR BGPI, F-34398 Montpellier, France; second author: Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation-UMR 7204, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France; third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and ninth authors: CIRAD, UMR BGPI, F-34398 Montpellier, France; and seventh author: CIRAD, UMR PVBMT, F-97410 Saint-Pierre, France
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- First and eighth authors: INRA, UMR BGPI, F-34398 Montpellier, France; second author: Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation-UMR 7204, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France; third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and ninth authors: CIRAD, UMR BGPI, F-34398 Montpellier, France; and seventh author: CIRAD, UMR PVBMT, F-97410 Saint-Pierre, France
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- First and eighth authors: INRA, UMR BGPI, F-34398 Montpellier, France; second author: Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation-UMR 7204, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France; third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and ninth authors: CIRAD, UMR BGPI, F-34398 Montpellier, France; and seventh author: CIRAD, UMR PVBMT, F-97410 Saint-Pierre, France
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Gladieux P, Wilson BA, Perraudeau F, Montoya LA, Kowbel D, Hann-Soden C, Fischer M, Sylvain I, Jacobson DJ, Taylor JW. Genomic sequencing reveals historical, demographic and selective factors associated with the diversification of the fire-associated fungus Neurospora discreta. Mol Ecol 2015; 24:5657-75. [PMID: 26453896 DOI: 10.1111/mec.13417] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2015] [Revised: 10/05/2015] [Accepted: 10/06/2015] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
Abstract
Delineating microbial populations, discovering ecologically relevant phenotypes and identifying migrants, hybrids or admixed individuals have long proved notoriously difficult, thereby limiting our understanding of the evolutionary forces at play during the diversification of microbial species. However, recent advances in sequencing and computational methods have enabled an unbiased approach whereby incipient species and the genetic correlates of speciation can be identified by examining patterns of genomic variation within and between lineages. We present here a population genomic study of a phylogenetic species in the Neurospora discreta species complex, based on the resequencing of full genomes (~37 Mb) for 52 fungal isolates from nine sites in three continents. Population structure analyses revealed two distinct lineages in South-East Asia, and three lineages in North America/Europe with a broad longitudinal and latitudinal range and limited admixture between lineages. Genome scans for selective sweeps and comparisons of the genomic landscapes of diversity and recombination provided no support for a role of selection at linked sites on genomic heterogeneity in levels of divergence between lineages. However, demographic inference indicated that the observed genomic heterogeneity in divergence was generated by varying rates of gene flow between lineages following a period of isolation. Many putative cases of exchange of genetic material between phylogenetically divergent fungal lineages have been discovered, and our work highlights the quantitative importance of genetic exchanges between more closely related taxa to the evolution of fungal genomes. Our study also supports the role of allopatric isolation as a driver of diversification in saprobic microbes.
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- Pierre Gladieux
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.,Ecologie Systematique Evolution, Université Paris Sud, Batiment 360, 91405, Orsay, France
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.,Ecole Polytechnique, Route de Saclay, 91128, Palaiseau, France
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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Short DPG, Gurung S, Gladieux P, Inderbitzin P, Atallah ZK, Nigro F, Li G, Benlioglu S, Subbarao KV. Globally invading populations of the fungal plant pathogen Verticillium dahliae are dominated by multiple divergent lineages. Environ Microbiol 2015; 17:2824-40. [PMID: 25630463 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12789] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2014] [Revised: 12/16/2014] [Accepted: 12/17/2014] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The spread of aggressive fungal pathogens into previously non-endemic regions is a major threat to plant health and food security. Analyses of the spatial and genetic structure of plant pathogens offer valuable insights into their origin, dispersal mechanisms and evolution, and have been useful to develop successful disease management strategies. Here, we elucidated the genetic diversity, population structure and demographic history of worldwide invasion of the ascomycete Verticillium dahliae, a soil-borne pathogen, using a global collection of 1100 isolates from multiple plant hosts and countries. Seven well-differentiated genetic clusters were revealed through discriminant analysis of principal components (DAPC), but no strong associations between these clusters and host/geographic origin of isolates were found. Analyses of clonal evolutionary relationships among multilocus genotypes with the eBURST algorithm and analyses of genetic distances revealed that genetic clusters represented several ancient evolutionary lineages with broad geographic distribution and wide host range. Comparison of different scenarios of demographic history using approximate Bayesian computations revealed the branching order among the different genetic clusters and lineages. The different lineages may represent incipient species, and this raises questions with respect to their evolutionary origin and the factors allowing their maintenance in the same areas and same hosts without evidence of admixture between them. Based on the above findings and the biology of V. dahliae, we conclude that anthropogenic movement has played an important role in spreading V. dahliae lineages. Our findings have implications for the development of management strategies such as quarantine measures and crop resistance breeding.
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- Dylan P G Short
- Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis, CA, 95616, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis, CA, 95616, USA
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- Ecologie Systematique Evolution, CNRS, Université Paris Sud, Orsay, F-91405, France
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis, CA, 95616, USA
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- Department of Advanced Technology, Hartnell College, Salinas, CA, 93905, USA
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- Department of Soil, Plant, and Food Sciences, University of Bari 'Aldo Moro', Bari, 70126, Italy
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis, CA, 95616, USA
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Gladieux P, Feurtey A, Hood ME, Snirc A, Clavel J, Dutech C, Roy M, Giraud T. The population biology of fungal invasions. Mol Ecol 2015; 24:1969-86. [DOI: 10.1111/mec.13028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 142] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2014] [Revised: 11/24/2014] [Accepted: 11/28/2014] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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- P. Gladieux
- Ecologie; Systématique et Evolution; Université Paris-Sud; Bâtiment 360 F-91405 Orsay France
- CNRS; 91405 Orsay France
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- Ecologie; Systématique et Evolution; Université Paris-Sud; Bâtiment 360 F-91405 Orsay France
- CNRS; 91405 Orsay France
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- Department of Biology; Amherst College; Amherst Massachusetts 01002 USA
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- Ecologie; Systématique et Evolution; Université Paris-Sud; Bâtiment 360 F-91405 Orsay France
- CNRS; 91405 Orsay France
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- Conservation des Espèces; Restauration et Suivi des Populations - CRBPO; Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle-CNRS-Université Pierre et Marie Curie; 55 rue Buffon 75005 Paris France
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- Biodiversité Gènes et Communautés; INRA-Université Bordeaux 1; Site de Pierroton 33610 Cestas France
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- Evolution et Diversité Biologique; Université Toulouse Paul Sabatier-Ecole Nationale de Formation Agronomique-CNRS; 118 route de Narbonne 31062 Toulouse France
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- Ecologie; Systématique et Evolution; Université Paris-Sud; Bâtiment 360 F-91405 Orsay France
- CNRS; 91405 Orsay France
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Mallez S, Castagnone C, Espada M, Vieira P, Eisenback JD, Harrell M, Mota M, Aikawa T, Akiba M, Kosaka H, Castagnone-Sereno P, Guillemaud T. Worldwide invasion routes of the pinewood nematode: What can we infer from population genetics analyses? Biol Invasions 2014. [DOI: 10.1007/s10530-014-0788-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Piątek M, Lutz M, Kemler M. Microbotryum silenes-saxifragae sp. nov. sporulating in the anthers of Silene saxifraga in southern European mountains. IMA Fungus 2013; 4:29-40. [PMID: 23898410 PMCID: PMC3719204 DOI: 10.5598/imafungus.2013.04.01.04] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2013] [Accepted: 03/21/2013] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
Abstract
Currently, the monophyletic lineage of anther smuts on Caryophyllaceae includes 22 species classified in the genus Microbotryum. They are model organisms studied in many disciplines of fungal biology. A molecular phylogenetic approach was used to resolve species boundaries within the caryophyllaceous anther smuts, as species delimitation based solely on phenotypic characters was problematic. Several cryptic species were found amongst the anther smuts on Caryophyllaceae, although some morphologically distinct species were discernible, and most species were characterized by high host-specificity. In this study, anther smut specimens infecting Silene saxifraga were analysed using rDNA sequences (ITS and LSU) and morphology to resolve their specific status and to discuss their phylogenetic position within the lineage of caryophyllaceous anther smuts. The molecular phylogeny revealed that all specimens form a monophyletic lineage that is supported by the morphological trait of reticulate spores with tuberculate interspaces (observed in certain spores). This lineage cannot be attributed to any of the previously described species, and the anther smut on Silene saxifraga is described and illustrated here as a new species, Microbotryum silenes-saxifragae. This species clusters in a clade that includes Microbotryum species, which infect both closely and distantly related host plants growing in diverse ecological habitats. It appears possible that host shifts combined with changes to ecological host niches drove the evolution of Microbotryum species within this clade.
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Affiliation(s)
- Marcin Piątek
- Department of Mycology, W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences, Lubicz 46, PL-31-512 Kraków, Poland
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