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The Magnaporthe grisea species complex and plant pathogenesis.

ABSTRACT:

Taxonomy

Kingdom Fungi; Phylum Ascomycota; Class Sordariomycetes; Order Magnaporthales; Family Pyriculariaceae (anamorph)/Magnaporthaceae (teleomorph); Genus Pyricularia (anamorph)/Magnaporthe (teleomorph); Species P. grisea (anamorph)/M. grisea (teleomorph).

Host range

Very broad at the species level, including rice, wheat, barley, millet and other species of the Poaceae (Gramineae).

Disease symptoms

Can be found on all parts of the plant, including leaves, leaf collars, necks, panicles, pedicels, seeds and even the roots. Initial symptoms are white to grey-green lesions or spots with darker borders, whereas older lesions are elliptical or spindle-shaped and whitish to grey with necrotic borders. Lesions may enlarge and coalesce to eventually destroy the entire leaf.

Disease control

Includes cultural strategies, genetic resistance and the application of chemical fungicides.

Geographical distribution

Widespread throughout the rice-growing regions of the globe and has been reported in more than 85 countries.

Genomic structure

Different isolates possess similar genomic sizes and overall genomic structures. For the laboratory strain 70-15: assembly size, 40.98 Mb; number of chromosomes, seven; number of predicted genes, 13 032; G + C composition, 51.6%; average gene contains 451.6 amino acids; mitochondrion genome size, 34.87 kb.

Useful website

http://www.broadinstitute.org/annotation/genome/magnaporthe_comparative/MultiHome.html.

SUBMITTER: Zhang H

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6638432 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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The Magnaporthe grisea species complex and plant pathogenesis.

Zhang Haifeng H Zheng Xiaobo X Zhang Zhengguang Z

Molecular plant pathology 20160404 6

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PMID: 26575082

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Dataset Information

The Magnaporthe grisea species complex and plant pathogenesis.

Taxonomy

Host range

Disease symptoms

Disease control

Geographical distribution

Genomic structure

Useful website

Publications

The Magnaporthe grisea species complex and plant pathogenesis.

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