A nonnative and a native fungal plant pathogen similarly stimulate ectomycorrhizal development but are perceived differently by a fungal symbiont

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Veröffentlicht in:The New phytologist. - 1979. - 213(2017), 4 vom: 01. März, Seite 1836-1849
1. Verfasser: Zampieri, Elisa (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Giordano, Luana, Lione, Guglielmo, Vizzini, Alfredo, Sillo, Fabiano, Balestrini, Raffaella, Gonthier, Paolo
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2017
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:The New phytologist
Schlagworte:Journal Article Heterobasidion Pinus pinea Tuber borchii RT-qPCR biological invasions gene expression impact RNA, Messenger
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Zusammenfassung:© 2016 The Authors. New Phytologist © 2016 New Phytologist Trust.
The effects of plant symbionts on host defence responses against pathogens have been extensively documented, but little is known about the impact of pathogens on the symbiosis and if such an impact may differ for nonnative and native pathogens. Here, this issue was addressed in a study of the model system comprising Pinus pinea, its ectomycorrhizal symbiont Tuber borchii, and the nonnative and native pathogens Heterobasidion irregulare and Heterobasidion annosum, respectively. In a 6-month inoculation experiment and using both in planta and gene expression analyses, we tested the hypothesis that H. irregulare has greater effects on the symbiosis than H. annosum. Although the two pathogens induced the same morphological reaction in the plant-symbiont complex, with mycorrhizal density increasing exponentially with pathogen colonization of the host, the number of target genes regulated in T. borchii in plants inoculated with the native pathogen (i.e. 67% of tested genes) was more than twice that in plants inoculated with the nonnative pathogen (i.e. 27% of genes). Although the two fungal pathogens did not differentially affect the amount of ectomycorrhizas, the fungal symbiont perceived their presence differently. The results may suggest that the symbiont has the ability to recognize a self/native and a nonself/nonnative pathogen, probably through host plant-mediated signal transduction
Beschreibung:Date Completed 22.02.2018
Date Revised 30.09.2020
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status MEDLINE
ISSN:1469-8137
DOI:10.1111/nph.14314