Mycologists and Virologists Align: Proposing Botrytis cinerea for Global Mycovirus Studies.

ABSTRACT: Mycoviruses are highly genetically diverse and can significantly change their fungal host's phenotype, yet they are generally under-described in genotypic and biological studies. We propose Botrytis cinerea as a model mycovirus system in which to develop a deeper understanding of mycovirus epidemiology including diversity, impact, and the associated cellular biology of the host and virus interaction. Over 100 mycoviruses have been described in this fungal host. B. cinerea is an ideal model fungus for mycovirology as it has highly tractable characteristics-it is easy to culture, has a worldwide distribution, infects a wide range of host plants, can be transformed and gene-edited, and has an existing depth of biological resources including annotated genomes, transcriptomes, and

SUBMITTER: Khalifa ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11437445 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature