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How much of global crop losses is due to pests?

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40%, fungi account for 2/3 of that

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How much rice is lost per year due to fungal infection?

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50 million tonnes

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What percent of wheat is susceptible to emerging fungal pathogens?

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90%

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What are biotrophs?

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Fungi that derive nutrients from the living cells of a host
They tend to be obligate and have specialized structures for nutrient absorption

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What are hemibiotrophs?

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Fungi that are pathogens and establish as biotrophs and later switch to being nectrotrophs

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What are necrotrophs?

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Fungi that kill the cells of a living host and utilize their remains as food

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What nutritional lifestyle are NOT included in plant pathogens?

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Saprotrophs which are decomposers of already dead organic matter

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What is the obligacy and host range of biotrophs?

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Specialized, obligate

Narrow range

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What is the obligacy and host range of necrotrophs?

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Unspecialized, facultative

Broad or narrow range

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What is the state of the host on entry and axenic culturability of biotrophs?

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All ages; in possession of host defense

Not easy and sometimes not yet possible

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What is the state of the host on entry and axenic culturability of necrotrophs?

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Often immature, overmature, or damaged

Easy

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What is the entry into the host, production of appressoria and haustoria, and damage to host tissues of biotrophs?

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Specialized, like direct penetration of the cell walls

Appressoria or appressoria-like structures are evident; haustoria is generally present

Little damage in the compatible host

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What is the entry into the host, production of appressoria and haustoria, and damage to host tissues of necrotrophs?

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Unspecialized; via wounds or natural openings

Not usually any appressoria or haustoria

Rapid cell death of the host tissues

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What is the production of lytic enzymes, production of toxins, survival following host death, control by resistance/susceptibility genes, and host defense pathways like in biotrophs?

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Lytic enzymes are localized to hyphae and limited in quantity

Toxins are not usually produced

They have little saprotrophic ability, they often survive as dormant spores following host death

PRR proteins; R gene products

Host defense pathways are NPR1; salicylic acid

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What is the production of lytic enzymes, production of toxins, survival following host death, control by resistance/susceptibility genes, and host defense pathways like in necrotrophs?

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Production of lytic enzymes is dependent on the mode of killing, often copious doing massive damage

Toxins produced dependent on the mode of killing and are often produced acting relatively locally or spread extensively in the xylem; some produce host-specific toxins

Can grow saprotrophically following host death

PRR proteins; host-specific toxin binding susceptibility gene products

Host defense pathways are COI1/EIN2; jasmonic acid/ethylene

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What is the disease life cycle?

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Arrival
Attachment
Entry
Host recognition
establishment and symptom development
Exit and Survival

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How do non-motile spores undergo arrival?

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They must wait for the plant to reach them vis roots and shoots

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How do motile spores undergo arrival?

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They are attracted to their hosts

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How do some fungi arrive?

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By growing towards their hosts as mycelia or being delivered by other infected plant parts

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Which fungi are incapable of spreading through the soil?

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Biotrophs, hemibiotrophs, and most necrotrophs

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How do fungi attach and enter their host?

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They enter through wounds, natural openings, or intact surfaces
Penetration through intact surfaces involves appressoria

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What does appressoria involve?

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High turgor pressure at the penetrating tip

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How do necrotrophs establish via damping off?

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The fungi secrete toxins and lytic enzymes
Pectolytic enzymes attack cell walls and cause plants to lose/ooze cytoplasm
Watery plant surfaces involved in damping-off diseases

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How do necrotrophs establish via wilts?

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Other types of necrotrophs enter vascular systems and inject toxins into the vasculature
Low-weight toxins are transported to the leaves and shut down the stomata and transpiration
These mechanisms lead to wilt diseases

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How do biotrophs establish?
Their enzymatic secretion is more localized Hyphae spread through the plant and may take up nutrients either on the surface or through haustoria They are nutrient sinks for the plant
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What biotrophic mechanism leads to the green island phenomenon?
Producing plant cytokinin hormones that increase chlorophyll retention and protein synthesis in the vicinity of the infection
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What is Green Island caused by?
A powdery mildew
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What is the exit and survival strategy of fungi?
Many fungi begin to produce reproductive structures in response to nutrient depletion Many rely on long-distance dispersal
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What is the first stage of a plant fungal infection?
The conidium forms an appressorium
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How is the conidium emptied?
Glycerol accumulates Water is drawn to glycerol Glycerol cannot escape due to melanin Pressure increases
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What are the 3 prerequisites to appressorium formation?
Recognition and glycerol + MAPK pathway upregulation 3-4-1 nucleus sequence Conidium autophagy
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What are the two pathways that govern appressorium formation?
1. Recognition of waxy leaf surface signals Pth11 to upregulate glycerol formation - runs through cAMP 2. Similar surface recognition signals upregulation of phosphorylation cascade through a series of MAP kinases - provides energy for lots of other stuff
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What does the deletion of a single MAP kinase do to a fungus?
This makes it unable to infect the plant
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What is the 3-4-1 nucleus sequence?
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What does the interruption of cell death and autophagy of the conidium inhibit?
Appressorium formation
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What are some things that the appressorium does?
Develops a penetration peg Rearranges its cytoskeleton Assembles a septin ring
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What does the septin ring in the appressorium do?
Septins scaffold the actin filaments and hold them in place
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What happens if we knock out any septin?
It leaves a tangled mess of actin and infection will fail
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What do septins require?
Specific very long chain fatty acids, which can be targeted by fungicides
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How does Magnaporthe move from cell to cell?
Uses the plant's plasmodesmata
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What do hyphae form at the plasmodesmata?
Hyphae form transpressoria with actomyosin
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What does the plant develop at the surface of the invading hyphae?
A biotrophic interfacial complex
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What does the biotrophic interfacial complex become a conduit for?
Effects The fungus uses the BIC to transmit effectors into plant cells, overwhelming immune defenses
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What are the points at which a plant fungal pathogen is highly susceptible to interruption?
Any of the three steps in appressorium formation PMK1-dependent formation of transpressoria
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What are endophytes?
Symptomless fungi that live within plant tissues Their function is unclear Some may be beneficial, others injurious From all fungi, but especially ascomycetes
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How are endophytes assessed?
Surface sterilization of plant tissue Culturing on a variety of media Culture-free methods (PCR) Both culture and PCR
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What is the transmission type of Class I (Clavicipitaceous) endophytes?
Primarily vertical - maternal plants pass fungi on to offspring vis seed infections
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What are some characteristics of Class I endophytes?
Frequently increase plant biomass Confer drought tolerance Produce chemicals that are toxic to animals and decrease herbivory such as alkaloids
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Where are Class I endophytes thought to derive from?
Insect-parasitic ancestors
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What is some evidence that C-endophytes may have evolved from insect pathogens?
Reduction of enzymatic capabilities Increased dependence on the host plant for nutrients An apparent increase in the production of particular secondary metabolites beneficial in the symbiosis
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What is the function of Class I endophytes in the plant?
Enhance resistance of hosts to insect-feeding Some endophytes deter feeding by mammalian herbivores
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What is sleepy grass?
A plant that harbors a C-endophyte that produces lysergic acid amide
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What are the characteristics of non-C endophytes?
Not deriving from Clavicipitaceae Typically broad host ranges Include classes II-IV
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What are Class II endophytes characterized by?
Extensive infections: they colonize roots, stems, and leaves Are transmitted vertically or horizontally via seed coats and/or rhizomes Have low abundance in the rhizosphere Confer habitat-adapted fitness benefits in addition to non-habitat-adapted benefits Typically have high infection frequencies in plants growing in high-stress habitats
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What do class II endophytes enhance?
Habitat adaptation
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What is Curvularia protuberata?
Colonizes all non-embryonic tissues of the geothermal plant Dichanthelium lanuginosum Grows in 55-degree soils in nature When grown alone, neither the plant nor the fungus can tolerate temperates above 38 degrees
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What is Fusarium culmorum?
Colonizes all non-embryonic tissues of coastal dune grass If grown alone, the host plant does not survive and the endophyte's growth is retarded when exposed to levels of salinity experienced in their native habitat Both partners tolerate seawater levels of salinity when grown symbiotically
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What effects do class II endophytes have on plant fitness?
Most increase shoot and/or root biomass, possibly as a result of the induction of plant hormones by the host or biosynthesis of plant hormones by the fungi
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How are class III endophytes distinguished?
Their occurrence primarily or exclusively in above-ground tissues, especially leaves Horizontal transmission The formation of highly localized infections The potential to confer benefits or costs on hosts that are not necessarily habitat-specific Extremely high biodiversity Low biomass, mosaic-like infections of leaves
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What is the major difference between class II and class III endophytes?
Seedlings raised under sterile conditions do not contain culturable class III endophytes due to horizontal transmission Class II is transmitted vertically
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Why are class III endophytes considered a wastebasket category?
Because it is for endophytes that don't fit in with the other 3 classes
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What are the characteristics of class IV fungi?
Originally called pseudomycorrhizal fungi Dark septate endophytes Mostly associated with roots Mostly ascomycetes Often broad host range
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What are the characteristics of pseudomycorrhizal fungi?
Occur worldwide No apparent pathogenic effects
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