Analysis of Epichloe festucae small secreted proteins in the interaction with Lolium perenne.

ABSTRACT: Epichloë festucae is an endophyte of the agriculturally important perennial ryegrass. This species systemically colonises the aerial tissues of this host where its growth is tightly regulated thereby maintaining a mutualistic symbiotic interaction. Recent studies have suggested that small secreted proteins, termed effectors, play a vital role in the suppression of host defence responses. To date only a few effectors with important roles in mutualistic interactions have been described. Here we make use of the fully assembled E. festucae genome and EffectorP to generate a suite of 141 effector candidates. These were analysed with respect to their genome location and expression profiles in planta and in several symbiosis-defective mutants. We found an association between effector candidates a

SUBMITTER: Hassing B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6374014 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature