Evolution of the Eleusine subgroup of Pyricularia oryzae inferred from rearrangement at the Pwl1 locus.
Mol Plant Microbe Interact
; 23(6): 771-83, 2010 Jun.
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| ID: mdl-20459316
ABSTRACT
Eleusine isolates (members of the Eleusine subgroup) of Pyricularia oryzae are divided into two groups, Ec-I and Ec-II, differentiated by molecular markers. A multilocus phylogenetic analysis and DNA fingerprinting suggested that Ec-I isolates are very close to Eragrostis isolates rather than Ec-II isolates. Infection assays revealed that Ec-II and Eragrostis isolates were exclusively virulent on finger millet and weeping lovegrass, respectively, whereas Ec-I isolates were virulent on both. The avirulence or virulence on weeping lovegrass perfectly corresponded to the presence or absence of an avirulence gene, PWL1; all Ec-II isolates carried an identical, functional PWL1, whereas none of Ec-I isolates or Eragrostis isolates carried it. A comparison of PWL1 flanking regions revealed that Ec-II isolates had a peculiar structure produced by an insertion (or translocation) of a DNA fragment carrying PWL1. Based on these results, a model was constructed which illustrated possible pathways to the establishment of the Eleusine subgroup.
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Ascomycota
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Fungal Proteins
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Eleusine
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Biological Evolution
Language:
En
Journal:
Mol Plant Microbe Interact
Journal subject:
BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR
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BOTANICA
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MICROBIOLOGIA
Year:
2010
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Japan