| Autor: |
Zhu Sheng, Cao You-Zhi, Jiang Cong, Tan Bi-Yue, Wang Zhong, Feng Sisi, Zhang Liang, Su Xiao-Hua, Brejova Brona, Vinar Tomas, Xu Meng, Wang Ming-Xiu, Zhang Shou-Gong, Huang Min-Ren, Wu Rongling, Zhou Yan |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2012 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
BMC Genomics, Vol 13, Iss 1, p 382 (2012) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
1471-2164 |
| DOI: |
10.1186/1471-2164-13-382 |
| Popis: |
Abstract Background The fungus Marssonina brunnea is a causal pathogen of Marssonina leaf spot that devastates poplar plantations by defoliating susceptible trees before normal fall leaf drop. Results We sequence the genome of M. brunnea with a size of 52 Mb assembled into 89 scaffolds, representing the first sequenced Dermateaceae genome. By inoculating this fungus onto a poplar hybrid clone, we investigate how M. brunnea interacts and co-evolves with its host to colonize poplar leaves. While a handful of virulence genes in M. brunnea, mostly from the LysM family, are detected to up-regulate during infection, the poplar down-regulates its resistance genes, such as nucleotide binding site domains and leucine rich repeats, in response to infection. From 10,027 predicted proteins of M. brunnea in a comparison with those from poplar, we identify four poplar transferases that stimulate the host to resist M. brunnea. These transferas-encoding genes may have driven the co-evolution of M. brunnea and Populus during the process of infection and anti-infection. Conclusions Our results from the draft sequence of the M. brunnea genome provide evidence for genome-genome interactions that play an important role in poplar-pathogen co-evolution. This knowledge could help to design effective strategies for controlling Marssonina leaf spot in poplar. |
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