Effector Profiles of Endophytic Fusarium Associated with Asymptomatic Banana (Musa sp.) Hosts.

ABSTRACT: During the infection of a host, plant pathogenic fungi secrete small proteins called effectors, which then modulate the defence response of the host. In the Fusarium oxysporum species complex (FOSC), the secreted in xylem (SIX) gene effectors are important for host-specific pathogenicity, and are also useful markers for identifying the various host-specific lineages. While the presence and diversity of the SIX genes has been explored in many of the pathogenic lineages of F. oxysporum, there is a limited understanding of these genes in non-pathogenic, endophytic isolates of F. oxysporum. In this study, universal primers for each of the known SIX genes are designed and used to screen a panel of endophytically-associated Fusarium species isolat

SUBMITTER: Czislowski E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7975973 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature