Sexual reproduction is the null hypothesis for life cycles of rust fungi.
PLoS Pathog
; 18(5): e1010439, 2022 05.
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ABSTRACT
Sexual reproduction, mutation, and reassortment of nuclei increase genotypic diversity in rust fungi. Sexual reproduction is inherent to rust fungi, coupled with their coevolved plant hosts in native pathosystems. Rust fungi are hypothesised to exchange nuclei by somatic hybridisation with an outcome of increased genotypic diversity, independent of sexual reproduction. We provide criteria to demonstrate whether somatic exchange has occurred, including knowledge of parental haplotypes and rejection of fertilisation in normal rust life cycles.
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Enfermedades de las Plantas
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Basidiomycota
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Animals
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2022
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