Viral Agents Causing Brown Cap Mushroom Disease of Agaricus bisporus.

ABSTRACT: The symptoms of viral infections of fungi range from cryptic to severe, but there is little knowledge of the factors involved in this transition of fungal/viral interactions. Brown cap mushroom disease of the cultivated Agaricus bisporus is economically important and represents a model system to describe this transition. Differentially expressed transcript fragments between mushrooms showing the symptoms of brown cap mushroom disease and control white noninfected mushrooms have been identified and sequenced. Ten of these RNA fragments have been found to be upregulated over 1,000-fold between diseased and nondiseased tissue but are absent from the Agaricus bisporus genome sequence and hybridize to double-stranded RNAs extracted from diseased tissue. We hypothesize that these transcript frag

SUBMITTER: Eastwood D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4579443 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature