J. Jennifer Luangsa-ard , Pitchapa Berkaew , Rungpet Ridkaew , Nigel L. Hywel-Jones , Masahiko Isaka
{"title":"A beauvericin hot spot in the genus Isaria","authors":"J. Jennifer Luangsa-ard , Pitchapa Berkaew , Rungpet Ridkaew , Nigel L. Hywel-Jones , Masahiko Isaka","doi":"10.1016/j.mycres.2009.08.017","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mycres.2009.08.017","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Beauvericin is a naturally occurring cyclohexadepsipeptide originally described from <em>Beauveria bassiana</em> but also reported from several <em>Fusarium</em> species as well as members of the genus <em>Isaria</em>. Twenty-six isolates of <em>Isaria</em> species and its <em>Cordyceps</em> teleomorph, and ten taxonomically close strains including <em>Beauveria</em>, <em>Nomuraea</em> and <em>Paecilomyces</em> species were sequenced and tested for beauvericin production. Trees using ITS rDNA and β-tubulin sequence data were constructed and used to infer the phylogenetic distribution of beauvericin production. A group comprising <em>Isaria tenuipes</em> and its known teleomorph <em>Cordyceps takaomontana</em>, <em>Isaria cicadae</em> and its <em>Cordyceps</em> teleomorph, <em>Isaria japonica</em> and <em>Isaria fumosorosea</em>, showed positive beauvericin production which correlated well with combined ITS rDNA and β-tubulin phylogenies. The results suggested that beauvericin can serve as a chemotaxonomic marker for these limited species of the <em>I. tenuipes</em> complex.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":19045,"journal":{"name":"Mycological research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.mycres.2009.08.017","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28413361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pamela Vrabl, Wolfgang Mutschlechner , Wolfgang Burgstaller
{"title":"Dynamics of energy charge and adenine nucleotides during uncoupling of catabolism and anabolism in Penicillium ochrochloron","authors":"Pamela Vrabl, Wolfgang Mutschlechner , Wolfgang Burgstaller","doi":"10.1016/j.mycres.2009.09.011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mycres.2009.09.011","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Filamentous fungi are able to spill energy when exposed to energy excess by uncoupling catabolism from anabolism, e.g. via overflow metabolism. In current study we tested the hypothesis that overflow metabolism is regulated via the energetic status of the hyphae (i.e. energy charge, ATP concentration). This hypothesis was studied in <em>Penicillium ochrochloron</em> during the steady state of glucose- or ammonium-limited chemostat cultures as well as during three transient states ((i) glucose pulse to a glucose-limited chemostat, (ii) shift from glucose-limited to ammonium-limited conditions in a chemostat, and (iii) ammonium exhaustion in batch culture). Organic acids were excreted under all conditions, even during exponential growth in batch culture as well as under glucose-limited conditions in a chemostat. Partial uncoupling of catabolism and anabolism via overflow metabolism was thus constitutively present. Under all tested conditions, overflow metabolism was independent of the energy charge or the ATP concentration of the hyphae. There was a reciprocal correlation between glucose uptake rate and intracellular adenine nucleotide content. During all transients states a rapid decrease in energy charge and the concentrations of nucleotides was observed shortly after a change in glycolytic flux (“ATP paradoxon”). A possible connection between the change in adenine nucleotide concentrations and the purine salvage pathway is discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":19045,"journal":{"name":"Mycological research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.mycres.2009.09.011","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28428919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trichoderma species form endophytic associations within Theobroma cacao trichomes","authors":"Bryan A. Bailey , Mary D. Strem , Delilah Wood","doi":"10.1016/j.mycres.2009.09.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mycres.2009.09.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><em>Trichoderma</em> species are usually considered soil organisms that colonize plant roots, sometimes forming a symbiotic relationship. Recent studies demonstrate that <em>Trichoderma</em> species are also capable of colonizing the above ground tissues of <em>Theobroma cacao</em> (cacao) in what has been characterized as an endophytic relationship. <em>Trichoderma</em> species can be re-isolated from surface sterilized cacao stem tissue, including the bark and xylem, the apical meristem, and to a lesser degree from leaves. SEM analysis of cacao stems colonized by strains of four <em>Trichoderma</em> species (<em>Trichoderma ovalisporum</em>-DIS 70a, <em>Trichoderma hamatum</em>-DIS 219b, <em>Trichoderma koningiopsis</em>-DIS 172ai, or <em>Trichoderma harzianum</em>-DIS 219f) showed a preference for surface colonization of glandular trichomes versus non-glandular trichomes. The <em>Trichoderma</em> strains colonized the glandular trichome tips and formed swellings resembling appresoria. Hyphae were observed emerging from the glandular trichomes on surface sterilized stems from cacao seedlings that had been inoculated with each of the four <em>Trichoderma</em> strains. Fungal hyphae were observed under the microscope emerging from the trichomes as soon as 6<!--> <!-->h after their isolation from surface sterilized cacao seedling stems. Hyphae were also observed, in some cases, emerging from stalk cells opposite the trichome head. Repeated single trichome/hyphae isolations verified that the emerging hyphae were the <em>Trichoderma</em> strains with which the cacao seedlings had been inoculated. Strains of four <em>Trichoderma</em> species were able to enter glandular trichomes during the colonization of cacao stems where they survived surface sterilization and could be re-isolated. The penetration of cacao trichomes may provide the entry point for <em>Trichoderma</em> species into the cacao stem allowing systemic colonization of this tissue.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":19045,"journal":{"name":"Mycological research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.mycres.2009.09.004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28411762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Joëlle Dupont , Sandrine Magnin , Florence Rousseau , Magali Zbinden , Ghislaine Frebourg , Sarah Samadi , Bertrand Richer de Forges , E.B. Gareth Jones
{"title":"Molecular and ultrastructural characterization of two ascomycetes found on sunken wood off Vanuatu Islands in the deep Pacific Ocean","authors":"Joëlle Dupont , Sandrine Magnin , Florence Rousseau , Magali Zbinden , Ghislaine Frebourg , Sarah Samadi , Bertrand Richer de Forges , E.B. Gareth Jones","doi":"10.1016/j.mycres.2009.08.015","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mycres.2009.08.015","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A new genus of a deep-sea ascomycete with one new species, <em>Alisea longicolla</em>, is described based on analyses of 18S and 28S rDNA sequences and morphological characters. <em>A. longicolla</em> was found together with <em>Oceanitis scuticella</em>, on small twigs and sugar cane debris trawled from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean off Vanuatu Islands. Molecular and morphological characters indicate that both fungi are members of <em>Halosphaeriaceae</em>. Within this family, <em>O. scuticella</em> is phylogenetically related to <em>Ascosalsum</em> and shares similar ascospore morphology and appendage ontogeny. The genus <em>Ascosalsum</em> is considered congeneric with <em>Oceanitis</em> and <em>Ascosalsum cincinnatulum</em>, <em>Ascosalsum unicaudatum</em> and <em>Ascosalsum viscidulum</em> are transferred to <em>Oceanitis</em>, an earlier generic name.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":19045,"journal":{"name":"Mycological research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.mycres.2009.08.015","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28387840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Donald T. Wicklow , Annalisa M. Jordan , James B. Gloer
{"title":"Antifungal metabolites (monorden, monocillins I, II, III) from Colletotrichum graminicola, a systemic vascular pathogen of maize","authors":"Donald T. Wicklow , Annalisa M. Jordan , James B. Gloer","doi":"10.1016/j.mycres.2009.10.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mycres.2009.10.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span><em>Colletotrichum</em><em> graminicola</em></span> is a systemic vascular pathogen that causes anthracnose stalk rot and leaf blight of maize. In the course of an effort to explore the potential presence and roles of <em>C. graminicola</em><span> metabolites in maize, ethyl acetate extracts of solid substrate fermentations of several </span><em>C. graminicola</em> isolates from Michigan and Illinois were found to be active against <em>Aspergillus flavus</em> and <span><em>Fusarium</em><em> verticillioides</em></span><span>, both mycotoxin-producing seed-infecting fungal pathogens. Chemical investigations of the extract of one such isolate (NRRL 47511) led to the isolation of known metabolites monorden (also known as radicicol) and monocillins I–III as major components. Monorden and monocillin I displayed </span><em>in vitro</em> activity against the stalk- and ear-rot pathogen <em>Stenocarpella maydis</em> while only the most abundant metabolite (monorden) showed activity against foliar pathogens <span><em>Alternaria alternata</em></span>, <em>Bipolaris zeicola</em>, and <span><em>Curvularia lunata</em></span>. Using LC–HRESITOFMS, monorden was detected in steam-sterilized maize stalks and stalk residues inoculated with <em>C. graminicola</em><span> but not in the necrotic stalk tissues of wound-inoculated plants grown in an environmental chamber. Monorden and monocillin I can bind and inhibit plant Hsp90, a chaperone of R-proteins. It is hypothesized that monorden and monocillins could support the </span><em>C. graminicola</em> disease cycle by disrupting maize plant defenses and by excluding other fungi from necrotic tissues and crop residues. This is the first report of natural products from <em>C. graminicola</em>, as well as the production of monorden and monocillins by a pathogen of cereals.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":19045,"journal":{"name":"Mycological research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.mycres.2009.10.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28434294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Markus Gorfer, Helene Persak, Harald Berger , Sabine Brynda , Dragana Bandian, Joseph Strauss
{"title":"Identification of heavy metal regulated genes from the root associated ascomycete Cadophora finlandica using a genomic microarray","authors":"Markus Gorfer, Helene Persak, Harald Berger , Sabine Brynda , Dragana Bandian, Joseph Strauss","doi":"10.1016/j.mycres.2009.09.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mycres.2009.09.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The ascomycete <em>Cadophora finlandica</em>, which can form mycorrhizas with ectomycorrhizal and ericoid hosts, is commonly found in heavy metal polluted soils. To understand the selective advantage of this organism at contaminated sites heavy metal regulated genes from <em>C. finlandica</em> were investigated. For gene identification a strategy based on a genomic microarray was chosen, which allows a rapid, genome-wide screening in genetically poorly characterized organisms. In a preliminary screen eleven plasmids covering eight distinct genomic regions and encoding a total of ten Cd-regulated genes were identified. Northern analyses with RNA from <em>C. finlandica</em> grown in the presence of either Cd, Pb or Zn revealed different transcription patterns in response to the heavy metals present in the growth medium. The Cd-regulated genes are predicted to encode several extracellular proteins with unknown functions, transporters, a centaurin-type regulator of intracellular membrane trafficking, a GNAT-family acetyltransferase and a B-type cyclin.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":19045,"journal":{"name":"Mycological research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.mycres.2009.09.005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28036571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mycological Research News","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.mycres.2009.11.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mycres.2009.11.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19045,"journal":{"name":"Mycological research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.mycres.2009.11.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72050754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jo Anne Crouch, Lisa A. Beirn, Laura M. Cortese, Stacy A. Bonos, Bruce B. Clarke
{"title":"Anthracnose disease of switchgrass caused by the novel fungal species Colletotrichum navitas","authors":"Jo Anne Crouch, Lisa A. Beirn, Laura M. Cortese, Stacy A. Bonos, Bruce B. Clarke","doi":"10.1016/j.mycres.2009.09.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mycres.2009.09.010","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In recent years perennial grasses such as the native tallgrass prairie plant <em>Panicum virgatum</em> (switchgrass) have taken on a new role in the North American landscape as a plant-based source of renewable energy. Because switchgrass is a native plant, it has been suggested that disease problems will be minimal, but little research in this area has been conducted. Recently, outbreaks of switchgrass anthracnose disease have been reported from the northeastern United States. Incidences of switchgrass anthracnose are known in North America since 1886 through herbarium specimens and disease reports, but the causal agent of this disease has never been experimentally determined or taxonomically evaluated. In the present work, we evaluate the causal agent of switchgrass anthracnose, a new species we describe as <em>Colletotrichum navitas</em> (<em>navitas</em> <!-->=<!--> <!-->Latin for energy). Multilocus molecular phylogenetics and morphological characters show <em>C. navitas</em> is a novel species in the falcate-spored graminicolous group of the genus <em>Colletotrichum</em>; it is most closely related to the corn anthracnose pathogen <em>Colletotrichum graminicola</em>. We present a formal description and illustrations for <em>C. navitas</em> and provide experimental confirmation that this organism is responsible for switchgrass anthracnose disease.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":19045,"journal":{"name":"Mycological research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.mycres.2009.09.010","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40052222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Two novel Peronospora species are associated with recent reports of downy mildew on sages","authors":"Young-Joon Choi , Hyeon-Dong Shin , Marco Thines","doi":"10.1016/j.mycres.2009.08.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mycres.2009.08.010","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Recently, downy mildew of <em>Salvia</em> species became economically relevant globally, but the taxonomy of the causal agent remains still obscure. The objective of this study was to characterize and distinguish the different <em>Peronospora</em> species associated with downy mildew on sages, based on morphological and molecular data. For this purpose we compared <em>Peronospora</em> specimens on <em>Salvia officinalis</em> and <em>Salvia plebeia</em> with <em>Peronospora swinglei</em>, including the type specimen on <em>Salvia reflexa</em>. We observed that three <em>Peronospora</em> species are associated with downy mildew on sages, and the recent outbreak of the disease on <em>S. officinalis</em> and <em>S. plebeia</em> is associated with two undescribed species, contrasting the view that either <em>P. swinglei</em> or <em>Peronospora lamii</em> is the causal agent of the downy mildew disease as claimed previously by several studies. In the study presented here, we provide the formal descriptions and illustrations for the two newly introduced taxa, <em>Peronospora salviae-plebeiae</em> and <em>Peronospora salviae-officinalis</em>. The three species of <em>Peronospora</em> investigated seem to be restricted to specific species of <em>Salvia</em>: <em>P. swinglei</em> to <em>S. reflexa</em>, <em>P. salviae-plebeiae</em> to <em>S. plebeia</em>, and <em>P. salviae-officinalis</em> to <em>S. officinalis</em>. Speciation may be allopatric and closely linked to the geographic distributions of their host plants.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":19045,"journal":{"name":"Mycological research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.mycres.2009.08.010","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28431814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}