Morphogenic regulation of pathotoxin synthesis in Cochliobolus carbonum

Fungal Genetics and Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 74-78

  Weiergang, Inge ^a,b   Dunkle, Larry D ^a   Wood, Karl V ^a   Nicholson, Ralph L ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYCOTOXIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGUS; MAIZE; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPORE GERMINATION; TOXIN SYNTHESIS;

COCHLIOBOLUS CARBONUM; FUNGI; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0029999686     PISSN: 10871845     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/fgbi.1996.0012     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Cantone, F. A., and Dunkle, L. D. 1990. Resistance in susceptible maize to Helminthosporium carbonum race 1 induced by prior inoculation with race 2. Phytopathology 80: 1221-1224.
2. Cantone, F. A., and Dunkle, L. D. 1991. Reversible effects of inhibitory diffusates from maize inoculated with Cochliobolus carbonum. Physiol. Mol. Plant Pathol. 39: 111-122.
3. Ciuffetti, L. M., Kim, S.-D., Knoche, H. W., and Dunkle, L. D. 1995. Maize DNA alkylation and genotype-specific alterations in protein synthesis induced by the host-selective toxin produced by Cochliobolus carbonum. Physiol. Mol. Plant Pathol. 46: 61-70.
4. Dixon, R. A., Harrison, M. J., and Lamb, C. J. 1994. Early events in the activation of plant defense responses. Annu. Rev. Phytopathol. 32: 479-501.
5. Dunkle, L. D., Cantone, F. A., and Ciuffetti, L. M. 1991. Accumulation of host-specific toxin produced by Cochliobolus carbonum during pathogenesis of maize. Physiol. Mol. Plant Pathol. 38: 265-273.
6. Gabriel, D. W., and Rolfe, B. G. 1990. Working models of specific recognition in plant-microbe interactions. Annu. Rev. Phytopathol. 28: 365-391.
7. Hoch, H. C., and Staples, R. C. 1991. Signaling for infection structure formation in fungi. In The Fungal Spore and Disease Initiation in Plants and Animals (G. T. Cole and H. C. Hoch, Eds.) pp. 25-46. Plenum, New York.
8. Johal, G. S., and Briggs, S. P. 1992. Reductase activity encoded by the HM1 disease resistance gene in maize. Science 258: 985-987.
9. Jones, M. J., and Dunkle, L. D. 1995. Virulence gene expression during conidial germination in Cochliobolus carbonum. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interact. 8: 476-479.
10. Kim, S.-D., Knoche, H. W., and Dunkle, L. D. 1987. Essentiality of the ketone function for toxicity of the host-selective toxin produced by Helminthosporium carbonum. Physiol. Mol. Plant Pathol. 30: 433-440.
11. Köller, W. 1991. The plant cuticle: A barrier to be overcome by fungal plant pathogens. In The Fungal Spore and Disease Initiation in Plants and Animals (G. T. Cole and H. C. Hoch, Eds.), pp. 219-246. Plenum, New York.
12. Meeley, R. B., and Walton, J. D. 1991. Enzymatic detoxification of HC-toxin, the host-selective cyclic peptide from Cochliobolus carbonum. Plant Physiol. 97: 1080-1086.
13. Mehdy, M. C. 1994. Active oxygen species in plant defense against pathogens. Plant Physiol. 105: 467-472.
14. Nelson, O. E., and Ullstrup, A. J. 1964. Resistance to leaf spot in maize. Genetic control of resistance to race I of Helminthosporium carbonum Ull. J. Hered. 55: 195-200.
15. Nicholson, R. L., and Epstein, L. 1991. Adhesion of fungi to the plant surface: Prerequisite for pathogenesis. In The Fungal Spore and Disease Initiation in Plants and Animals (G. T. Cole and H. C. Hoch, Eds.), pp. 3-23. Plenum, New York.
16. Nicholson, R. L., Kunoh, H., Shiraishi, T., and Yamada, T. 1993. Initiation of the infection process by Erysiphe graminis: Conversion of the conidial surface from hydrophobicity to hydrophilicity and influence of the conidial exudate on the hydrophobicity of the barley leaf surface. Physiol. Mol. Plant Pathol. 43: 307-318.
17. Panaccione, D. G., Scott-Craig, J. S., Pocard, J.-A., and Walton, J. D. 1992. A cyclic peptide synthetase gene required for pathogenicity of the fungus Cochliobolus carbonum. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 89: 6590-6594.
18. Pope, M. R., Ciuffetti, L. M., Knoche, H. W., McCrery, D., Daly, J. M., and Dunkle, L. D. 1983. Structure of the host-specific toxin produced by Helminthosporium carbonum. Biochemistry 22: 3502-3506.
19. Schäfer, W. 1994. Molecular mechanisms of fungal pathogenicity to plants. Annu. Rev. Phytopathol. 32: 461-477.
20. Scheffer, R. P., and Ullstrup, A. J. 1965. Host-specific toxic metabolite from Helminthosporium carbonum. Phytopathology 55: 1037-1038.
21. Scott-Craig, J. S., Panaccione, D. G., Pocard, J.-A., and Walton, J. D. 1992. The cyclic peptide synthetase catalyzing HC-toxin production in the filamentous fungus Cochliobolus carbonum is encoded by a 15.7-kilobase open reading frame. J. Biol. Chem. 267: 26044-26049.
22. Staskawicz, B. J., Ausubel, F. M., Baker, B. J., Ellis, J. G., and Jones, J. D. G. 1995. Molecular genetics of plant disease resistance. Science 268: 661-667.
23. Ullstrup, A. J. 1941. Two physiologic races of Helminthosporium maydis in the corn belt. Phytopathology 31: 508-521.
24. Ullstrup, A. J. 1944. Further studies on a species of Helminthosporium parasitizing corn. Phytopathology 34: 214-222.
25. Walton, J. D., and Holden, F. R. 1988. Properties of two enzymes involved in the biosynthesis of the fungal pathogenicity factor HC-toxin. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interact. 1: 128-134.
26. Walton, J. D., Earle, E. D., and Gibson, B. W. 1982. Purification and structure of the host-specific toxin from Helminthosporium carbonum. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 107: 785-794.
27. Wood, K. V., Bonham, C. C., Hipskind, J., and Nicholson, R. L. 1994. Analysis of anthocyanins and 3-deoxyanthocyanidins by plasma desorption mass spectrometry. Phytochemistry 37: 557-560.
28. Yoder, O. C. 1980. Toxins in pathogenesis. Annu. Rev. Phytopathol. 18: 103-129.