Evidence that Ophiostomatoid Fungal Symbionts of Mountain Pine Beetle Do Not Play a Role in Overcoming Lodgepole Pine Defenses During Mass Attack.

Autor:	Fortier CE; Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2E9, Canada., Musso AE; Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2E9, Canada., Evenden ML; Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2E9, Canada., Zaharia LI; National Research Council of Canada, Aquatic and Crop Resource Development Research Centre, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 0W9, Canada., Cooke JEK; Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2E9, Canada.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Molecular plant-microbe interactions : MPMI [Mol Plant Microbe Interact] 2024 May; Vol. 37 (5), pp. 445-458. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 May 22.
DOI:	10.1094/MPMI-06-23-0077-R
Abstrakt:	Mountain pine beetle (MPB; Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins) is a devastating forest insect pest that has killed millions of hectares of pines in western North America over the past two decades. Like other bark beetles, MPB vectors ophiostomatoid fungal species, some of which are pathogenic to host pine species. The phytopathogenicity of these fungal symbionts has sparked considerable debate regarding their role in facilitating MPB attack success. We tested the hypothesis that MPB ophiostomatoid fungal associates like Grosmannia clavigera (Robinson-Jeffrey and Davidson) Zipfel, de Beer and Wingfield contribute to overwhelming host defenses during MPB mass attack. We compared responses of mature lodgepole pine ( Pinus contorta Dougl. ex Loud. var. latifolia Engelm.) trees growing in natural stands that were mass attacked by MPB with those inoculated with G. clavigera by examining host defense hormones, secondary metabolites, and gene expression profiles. The jasmonate and ethylene signatures of necrotrophic pathogen-triggered response were identified in G. clavigera -inoculated trees, but only the jasmonate signature of a herbivore-triggered response was measured in MPB-attacked trees. Several G. clavigera -induced changes in pine phenolic metabolite profiles and phenolic biosynthesis gene expression patterns were absent in MPB-attacked pines. These findings indicate that ophiostomatoid fungi like G. clavigera are not a major factor in overwhelming host defenses during MPB mass attack. Instead, fungal pathogenicity likely is more important in aiding MPB colonization and development within the host tree. Phenolics appear to play a larger role in the host response to G. clavigera than to MPB, although phenolics may also influence MPB feeding and behavior. [Formula: see text] Copyright © 2024 The Author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY 4.0 International license. Competing Interests: The author(s) declare no conflict of interest.
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