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The FpPPR1 Gene Encodes a Pentatricopeptide Repeat Protein That Is Essential for Asexual Development, Sporulation, and Pathogenesis in Fusarium pseudograminearum

Frontiers in Genetics, 2021
Fusarium crown rot (FCR) and Fusarium head blight (FHB) are caused by Fusarium pseudograminearum and are newly emerging diseases of wheat in China. In this study, we characterized FpPPR1, a gene that encodes a protein with 12 pentatricopeptide repeat ...
Limin Wang, Shunpei Xie, Yinshan Zhang, Ruijiao Kang, Ruijiao Kang, Mengjuan Zhang, Min Wang, Haiyang Li, Linlin Chen, Hongxia Yuan, Shengli Ding, Shen Liang, Honglian Li   +12 more
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Multiple convergent supergene evolution events in mating-type chromosomes

Nature Communications, 2018
Supergenes result from beneficial linkage and recombination suppression between two or more genes. Giraud and colleagues use whole genome sequencing data to show convergent evolution of supergenes on mating-type chromosomes in multiple closely-related ...
Sara Branco, Fantin Carpentier, Ricardo C. Rodríguez de la Vega, Hélène Badouin, Alodie Snirc, Stéphanie Le Prieur, Marco A. Coelho, Damien M. de Vienne, Fanny E. Hartmann, Dominik Begerow, Michael E. Hood, Tatiana Giraud   +11 more
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The AGC Kinase SsAgc1 Regulates Sporisorium scitamineum Mating/Filamentation and Pathogenicity

mSphere, 2019
Sporisorium scitamineum is the fungal pathogen causing severe sugarcane smut disease that leads to massive economic losses globally. S. scitamineum invades host cane by dikaryotic hyphae, formed after sexual mating of two haploid sporidia of opposite ...
Yixu Wang, Yi Zhen Deng, Guobing Cui, Chengwei Huang, Bin Zhang, Changqing Chang, Zide Jiang, Lian-Hui Zhang   +7 more
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Complete Genome Sequences and Genome-Wide Characterization of Trichoderma Biocontrol Agents Provide New Insights into their Evolution and Variation in Genome Organization, Sexual Development, and Fungal-Plant Interactions

Microbiology Spectrum, 2021
Trichoderma spp. represent one of the most important fungal genera to mankind and in natural environments. The genus harbors prolific producers of wood-decaying enzymes, biocontrol agents against plant pathogens, plant-growth-promoting biofertilizers, as
Wan-Chen Li, Ting-Chan Lin, Chia-Ling Chen, Hou-Cheng Liu, Hisn-Nan Lin, Ju-Lan Chao, Cheng-Hsilin Hsieh, Hui-Fang Ni, Ruey-Shyang Chen, Ting-Fang Wang   +9 more
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The general transcriptional repressor Tup1 is required for dimorphism and virulence in a fungal plant pathogen. [PDF]

PLoS Pathogens, 2011
A critical step in the life cycle of many fungal pathogens is the transition between yeast-like growth and the formation of filamentous structures, a process known as dimorphism.
Alberto Elías-Villalobos, Alfonso Fernández-Álvarez, José I Ibeas   +2 more
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Transcription factors Mat2 and Znf2 operate cellular circuits orchestrating opposite- and same-sex mating in Cryptococcus neoformans.

PLoS Genetics, 2010
Cryptococcus neoformans is a human fungal pathogen that undergoes a dimorphic transition from a unicellular yeast to multicellular hyphae during opposite sex (mating) and unisexual reproduction (same-sex mating). Opposite- and same-sex mating are induced
Xiaorong Lin, Jennifer C Jackson, Marianna Feretzaki, Chaoyang Xue, Joseph Heitman   +4 more
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Comparative Genomics Suggests Primary Homothallism of Pneumocystis Species

mBio, 2015
Pneumocystis species are fungal parasites of mammal lungs showing host specificity. Pneumocystis jirovecii colonizes humans and causes severe pneumonia in immunosuppressed individuals.
João M. G. C. F. Almeida, Ousmane H. Cissé, Álvaro Fonseca, Marco Pagni, Philippe M. Hauser   +4 more
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Mutations and Differential Transcription of Mating-Type and Pheromone Receptor Genes in Hirsutella sinensis and the Natural Cordyceps sinensis Insect-Fungi Complex

Biology
Sexual reproduction in ascomycetes is controlled by the mating-type (MAT) locus. (Pseudo)homothallic reproduction has been hypothesized on the basis of genetic data from Hirsutella sinensis (Genotype #1 of Ophiocordyceps sinensis).
Xiu-Zhang Li, Meng-Jun Xiao, Yu-Ling Li, Ling Gao, Jia-Shi Zhu   +4 more
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Convergent evolution of chromosomal sex-determining regions in the animal and fungal kingdoms. [PDF]

PLoS Biology, 2004
Sexual identity is governed by sex chromosomes in plants and animals, and by mating type (MAT) loci in fungi. Comparative analysis of the MAT locus from a species cluster of the human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus revealed sequential evolutionary events ...
James A Fraser, Stephanie Diezmann, Ryan L Subaran, Andria Allen, Klaus B Lengeler, Fred S Dietrich, Joseph Heitman   +6 more
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Convergent evolution of linked mating-type loci in basidiomycete fungi.

PLoS Genetics, 2019
Sexual development is a key evolutionary innovation of eukaryotes. In many species, mating involves interaction between compatible mating partners that can undergo cell and nuclear fusion and subsequent steps of development including meiosis.
Sheng Sun, Marco A Coelho, Joseph Heitman, Minou Nowrousian   +3 more
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