Fusarium verticillioides (syn. F. moniliforme; teleom. Giberella moniliformis) is an important pathogen of sorghum and maize, where it causes serious decay on stalk, cob, and kernels. EndoPGs are important virulence factors in both fungi and bacteria, and a control of their activity by PGIPs limits fungal colonization both in dicot and monocot plants. We therefore analysed this strain in comparison with representative strains of F. verticillioides, F. fujikuroi,andF. phyllophilum on the basis of morphological traits and DNA sequences of two molecular markers, the cellobiohydrolase-C gene (cbh-C ), a single copy gene that encodes an enzyme involved in cell wall degradation during plant infection, and the translation elongation factor EF-a1 or TEF gene, both widely utilized for the classification of Fusarium species. Our re-identification of strain FC-10 as F. phillophilum leads to the conclusion that no PGIP significantly active against a natural F. verticillioides endoPG has been so far identified

Reclassification of Fusarium verticillioides (syn. F. moniliforme) strain FC-10 as F. phyllophilum

CAPRARI, Claudio;
2008-01-01

Abstract

Fusarium verticillioides (syn. F. moniliforme; teleom. Giberella moniliformis) is an important pathogen of sorghum and maize, where it causes serious decay on stalk, cob, and kernels. EndoPGs are important virulence factors in both fungi and bacteria, and a control of their activity by PGIPs limits fungal colonization both in dicot and monocot plants. We therefore analysed this strain in comparison with representative strains of F. verticillioides, F. fujikuroi,andF. phyllophilum on the basis of morphological traits and DNA sequences of two molecular markers, the cellobiohydrolase-C gene (cbh-C ), a single copy gene that encodes an enzyme involved in cell wall degradation during plant infection, and the translation elongation factor EF-a1 or TEF gene, both widely utilized for the classification of Fusarium species. Our re-identification of strain FC-10 as F. phillophilum leads to the conclusion that no PGIP significantly active against a natural F. verticillioides endoPG has been so far identified
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