Analysis of the Structure of the AVR1-CO39 Avirulence Locus in Virulent Rice-Infecting Isolates of Magnaporthe grisea
| Autor: | Mark L. Farman, Yukiko Eto, Tomomi Nakao, Yukio Tosa, Hitoshi Nakayashiki, Shigeyuki Mayama, Sally A. Leong |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
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| Zdroj: | Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, Vol 15, Iss 1, Pp 6-16 (2002) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1943-7706 0894-0282 |
| DOI: | 10.1094/MPMI.2002.15.1.6 |
| Popis: | The AVR1-CO39 gene that came from a Magnaporthe grisea isolate from weeping lovegrass controls avirulence on the rice cultivar CO39. AVR1-CO39 was not present in the genome of the rice-infecting M. grisea isolate Guy11 from French Guyana, suggesting that the gene had been deleted. Molecular analysis of the deletion breakpoints in the AVR1-CO39 locus revealed the presence of a truncated copy of a previously unknown retrotransposon at the left-hand border. At the right-hand border was a truncated copy of another repetitive element that is present at multiple locations in the genome of Guy11. The structures of avr1-CO39 loci were further examined in 45 rice-infecting isolates collected in Brazil, China, Japan, India, Indonesia, Mali, and the Philippines. Most isolates showed no hybridization signal with the AVR1-CO39 probe and had the same locus structure as Guy11. Some isolates from Japan showed a signal with the AVR1-CO39 probe, but the region specifying avirulence activity was rearranged. These findings suggest that widespread virulence to ‘CO39’ among rice-infecting M. grisea isolates is due to ancestral rearrangements at the AVR1-CO39 locus that may have occurred early in the evolution of pathogenicity to rice. |
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