CfCpmd1 Regulates Pathogenicity and Sexual Development of Plus and Minus Strains in Colletotrichum fructicola Causing Glomerella Leaf Spot on Apple in China.

Autor:	Kong Y; State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, China., Yuan Y; State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, China., Menghan Y; State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, China., Yiming L; State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, China., Liang X; State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, China., Gleason ML; Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, U.S.A., Rong Z; State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, China., Sun G; State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, China.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Phytopathology [Phytopathology] 2023 Oct; Vol. 113 (10), pp. 1985-1993. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Nov 08.
DOI:	10.1094/PHYTO-02-23-0071-R
Abstrakt:	Colletotrichum fructicola is a devastating fungal pathogen of diverse plants. Sexually compatible plus and minus strains occur in the same ascus. However, the differentiation mechanism of plus and minus strains remains poorly understood. Here, we characterized a novel Cys2-His2-containing transcription factor CfCpmd1. The plus CfCpmd1 deletion mutant (Δ+ CfCpmd1 ) resulted in slow hyphal growth and a fluffy cotton-like colony, and the minus deletion mutant (Δ- CfCpmd1 ) exhibited characters similar to the wild type (WT). Δ+ CfCpmd1 led to defective perithecial formation, whereas Δ- CfCpmd1 produced more and smaller perithecia. The normal mating line was developed by pairing cultures of Δ- CfCpmd1 and plus WT, whereas a weak line was observed between Δ+ CfCpmd1 and minus WT. Conidial production was completely abolished in both plus and minus mutants. When inoculated on non-wounded apple leaves with mycelial plugs, Δ- CfCpmd1 was nonpathogenic because of failure to develop conidia and appressoria, while Δ+ CfCpmd1 could infect apple leaves by appressoria differentiated directly from hyphal tips, even though no conidia formed. Collectively, our results demonstrate that CfCpmd1 of C. fructicola is an important gene related to plus and minus strain differentiation, which also affects hyphal growth, sporulation, appressorium formation, and pathogenicity. Competing Interests: The author(s) declare no conflict of interest.
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