Project description:Transcriptional profiling of the rust fungus Cronartium quercuum f. sp. fusiforme (Cqf) during vegetative growth on 2 different hosts.
Project description:The purpose of this study was to make a single comparison between Cqf genes expressed during the vegetative stages of infection on the telial host (oak leaf) versus the aecial host (pine stem). A large proportion of genes were expressed in both hosts and significantly differentially expressed genes were enriched for candidate fungal effectors (small secreted proteins). These results suggest that the Cqf rust fungus uses a largely common set of genes to create two very different infection phenotypes.
