SIX6 Shows High Divergence in Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense TR4
| Autor: | Nadya Farah, Mohammad Bahrelfi Belaffif |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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| Zdroj: | International Journal of Agriculture and Biology. 25:1331-1338 |
| ISSN: | 1560-8530 1814-9596 |
| DOI: | 10.17957/ijab/15.1795 |
| Popis: | Secreted fungal effector proteins and their host targets are good examples to understand the mechanism of host-pathogen co-evolution with genes involved in the interaction undergoing positive selection. SIX genes (secreted in xylem) are obtained via horizontal transfer and can be found within the formae speciales of Fusarium oxysporum. SIX6 and SIX9 of F. oxysporum f. spp. cubense (Foc) are predicted to play a role as effectors. However, their involvement in the pathogenicity of Foc in banana plants has not been determined yet. In the susceptible banana cultivar, we found that the SIX6 and SIX9 genes of Foc TR4 were highly expressed in roots, but not in corms or leaves. The host, however, expressed the pathogenesis-related (PR) genes, PR-1 and PR-3, in corms earlier than in the roots. Phylogenetic analysis on SIX6 and SIX9 genes of F. oxysporum has revealed the separation of SIX6 and SIX9 of Foc from other formae speciales. This leads to detecting genes under positive selection using the ratio nonsynonymous to synonymous substitution rates (Ka/Ks). SIX6 of Foc showed an increase in diversity, but insufficient to drive positive selection. Conversely, SIX9 of Foc showed no divergence in the dN/dS ratio distribution, indicating purifying selection. © 2021 Friends Science Publishers |
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