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Enniatin Production Influences Fusarium avenaceum Virulence on Potato Tubers, but not on Durum Wheat or Peas.

ABSTRACT: Fusarium avenaceum is a generalist pathogen responsible for diseases in numerous crop species. The fungus produces a series of mycotoxins including the cyclohexadepsipeptide enniatins. Mycotoxins can be pathogenicity and virulence factors in various plant-pathogen interactions, and enniatins have been shown to influence aggressiveness on potato tubers. To determine the role of these mycotoxins in other F. avenaceum-host interactions, enniatin synthase 1 (ESYN1) disruption and overexpression mutants were generated and their ability to infect wheat and peas investigated. As a preliminary study, the transformants were screened for their ability to cause potato tuber necrosis and, consistent with a previous report, enniatin production increased necrotic lesion size on the tubers. By contrast, when the same mutants were assessed in their ability to cause disease in pea roots or durum wheat spikes, no changes in disease symptoms or virulence were observed. While it is known that, at least in the case of wheat, exogenously applied enniatins can cause tissue necrosis, this group of mycotoxins does not appear to be a key factor on its own in disease development on peas or durum wheat.

SUBMITTER: Eranthodi A

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7168684 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Enniatin Production Influences Fusarium avenaceum Virulence on Potato Tubers, but not on Durum Wheat or Peas.

Eranthodi Anas A Schneiderman Danielle D Harris Linda J LJ Witte Thomas E TE Sproule Amanda A Hermans Anne A Overy David P DP Chatterton Syama S Liu Jiajun J Li Tao T Fundora Dianevys González-Peña DG Zhao Weiquan W Foroud Nora A NA

Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) 20200121 2

Fusarium avenaceum is a generalist pathogen responsible for diseases in numerous crop species. The fungus produces a series of mycotoxins including the cyclohexadepsipeptide enniatins. Mycotoxins can be pathogenicity and virulence factors in various plant-pathogen interactions, and enniatins have been shown to influence aggressiveness on potato tubers. To determine the role of these mycotoxins in other F. avenaceum-host interactions, enniatin synthase 1 (ESYN1) disrup ...[more]

PMID: 31973184

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Enniatin Production Influences Fusarium avenaceum Virulence on Potato Tubers, but not on Durum Wheat or Peas.

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Enniatin Production Influences <i>Fusarium avenaceum</i> Virulence on Potato Tubers, but not on Durum Wheat or Peas.

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