Association of distinct double-stranded RNAs with enhanced or diminished virulence in Rhizoctonia solani infecting potato

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1002-1009

  Jian, JianHua ^a,b   Lakshman, Dilip K ^a   Tavantzis, Stellos M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPHOMYCETES; RHIZOCTONIA; RHIZOCTONIA SOLANI; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; THANATEPHORUS CUCUMERIS;

EID: 0030829681     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.1997.10.8.1002     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Adams, G. C. 1996. Genetics of Rhizoctonia species. Pages 101-116 in: Rhizoctonia Species: Taxonomy, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Pathology and Disease Control. B. Sneh, S. Jabaji-Hare, S. Neate, and G. Dijst, eds. Kluwer Academic, Boston.
2. Bandy, B. P., Leach, S. S., and Tavantzis, S. M. 1988. Anastomosis group 3 is the major cause of Rhizoctonia disease of potato in Maine. Plant Dis. 72:596-598.
3. Bharathan, N., and Tavantzis, S. M. 1990. Genetic diversity of double-stranded RNA from Rhizoctonia solani. Phytopathology 80:631-635.
4. Bharathan, N., and Tavantzis, S. M. 1991. Assessment of genetic relatedness among double-stranded RNAs from isolates of Rhizoctonia solani from diverse geographic origins. Phytopathology 81:411-415
5. Bhargava, M. M., and Halvorson, H. O. 1971. Isolation of nuclei from yeast. J. Cell Biol. 49:423-429.
6. Bracker, C. E., and Butler, E. E. 1964. Function of the septal pore apparatus in Rhizoctonia solani during protoplasmic streaming. J. Cell Biol. 21:152-157.
7. Carling, D. E. 1996. Grouping in Rhizoctonia solani by hyphal anastomosis interactions. Pages 37-47 in: Rhizoctonia Species: Taxonomy, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Pathology and Disease Control. B. Sneh, S. Jabaji-Hare, S. Neate, and G. Dijst, eds. Kluwer Academic, Boston.
8. Castanho, B., and Butler, E. E. 1978. Rhizoctonia decline: A degenerative disease of Rhizoctonia solani. Phytopathology 68:1505-1510.
9. Castanho, B., Butler, E. E., and Shepherd, R. J. 1978. The association of double-stranded RNA with Rhizoctonia decline. Phytopathology 68: 1515-1519.
10. Choi, G. H., Chen, B., and Nuss, D. L. 1995. Virus-mediated transgenic suppression of a G-protein α subunit and attenuation of fungal virulence. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 92:305-309.
11. Choi, G. H., and Nuss, D. L. 1992. Hypovirulence of chestnut blight fungus conferred by an infectious viral cDNA. Science 257:800-803.
12. Cubeta, M. A., Briones-Ortega, R., and Vilgalys, R. 1993. Reassessment of heterokaryon formation in Rhizoctonia solani anastomosis group 4. Mycologia 85:777-787.
13. Day, P. R., Dodds, J. A., Elliston, J. E., Jaynes, R. A., and Anagnostakis, S. L. 1977. Double-stranded RNA in Endothia parasitica. Phytopathology 67:1393-1396.
14. Finkler, A., Koltin, Y., Barash, L., Sneh, B., and Pozinak, B. 1985. Isolation of a virus from virulent strains of Rhizoctonia solani. J. Gen. Virol. 66:1221-1232.
15. Gealt, M. A., Sheir-Neiss, G., and Morris, N. R. 1976. The isolation of nuclei from the filamentous fungus Aspergillus nidulans. J. Gen. Microbiol. 94:204-210.
16. Hyakumachi, M., Sumino, A., Ueda, I., and Shikada, E. 1985. Relationship between the presence of dsRNA in Rhizoctonia solani and pathogenicity. Ann. Phytopathol. Soc. Jpn. 51:372-373.
17. Jian, J. 1997. Biological and molecular characterization of a virulence-associated 6.4-kb double-stranded RNA from the plant pathogenic basidiomycete Rhizoctonia solani. Ph.D. diss. University of Maine, Orono.
18. Jian, J., Lakshman, D. K., and Tavantzis, S. M. 1995. Coincidence of transmission of double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) and phenotypic changes in Rhizoctonia solani. (Abstr.) Phytopathology 85:1211.
19. Jian, J., Lakshman, D. K., and Tavantzis, S. M. 1996. Biological and molecular properties of a 6.5-kb double-strand RNA (dsRNA) from Rhizoctonia solani. (Abstr.) Phytopathology 86(suppl.):S68.
20. Johnson, L. V., Walsh, M. L., and Chen, L. B. 1980. Localization of mitochondria in living cells with rhodamine 123. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 77:990-994
21. Kazmierczak, P., Pfeiffer, P., Zhang, L., and Van Alfen, N. K. 1996. Transcriptional repression of specific host genes by the mycovirus Cryphonectria hypovirus 1. J. Virol. 70:1137-1142.
22. Kousik, C. S., Snow, J. P., and Valverde, R. A. 1994. Comparison of double-stranded RNA components and virulence among isolates of Rhizoctonia solani AG-1 IA and AG-1 IB. Phytopathology 84:44-49.
23. Lakshman, D. K., and Tavantzis, S. M. 1994. Spontaneous appearance of genetically distinct double-stranded RNA elements in Rhizoctonia solani. Phytopathology 84:633-639.
24. Morris, T. J., and Dodds, J. A. 1979. Isolation and analysis of double-stranded RNA from virus-infected plant and fungal tissue. Phytopathology 69:854-858.
25. Nuss, D. L. 1996. Using hypoviruses to probe and perturb signal transduction processes underlying fungal pathogenesis. Plant Cell 8:1845-1853.
26. Nuss, D. L., and Koltin, Y. 1990. Significance of dsRNA genetic elements in plant pathogenic fungi. Ann. Rev. Phytopathol. 28:37-58.
27. Polashock, J. J., and Hillman, B. I. 1994. A small mitochondrial double-stranded (ds) RNA element associated with a hypovirulent strain of the chestnut blight fungus and ancestrally related to yeast cytoplasmic T and W dsRNAs. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 91:8680-8684.
28. Rogers, H. J., Buck, K. W., and Brasier, C. M. 1987. A mitochondrial target for double-stranded RNA in diseased isolates of the fungus that causes Dutch elm disease. Nature 329:558-60.
29. Sambrook, J., Fritsch E. F., and Maniatis, T. A. 1989. Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual. 2nd ed. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY.
30. Sneh, B., Jabaji-Hare, S., Neate, S., and Dijst, G., eds. 1996. Rhizoctonia Species: Taxonomy, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Pathology and Disease Control. Kluwer Academic, Boston.
31. Snider, P. J. 1962. Genetic evidence for nuclear migration in basidiomycetes. Genetics 48:47-55.
32. Specht, C. A., Novotny, C. P., and Ullrich, R. C. 1983. Isolation and characterization of mitochondrial DNA from the basidiomycete Schizophyllum commune. Exp. Mycol. 7:336-343.
33. Syminis, T. E. 1989. Extrachromosomal DNA in Rhizoctonia solani. M.S. thesis. University of Maine, Orono.
34. Tavantzis, S. M. 1988. Biological control of Rhizoctonia disease and increased growth response of potato effected by hypovirulent R. solani. Pages 44-46 in: Innovations in Pest Management. S. Engelstad, W. M. Coli, and J. L. Carlson, eds. University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst.
35. Tavantzis, S. M., and Lakshman, D. K. 1995. Virus-like double-stranded RNA elements and hypovirulence in phytopathogenic fungi. Vol. III, Chapter 17. Pages 249-267 in: Pathogenesis and Host-Parasite Specificity in Plant Disease: Histopathological, Biochemical, Genetic and Molecular Basis. K. Kohmoto, R. P. Singh, and U. S. Singh, eds. Elsevier (Pergamon), Oxford, UK.
36. Van Alfen, N. K., Jaynes, R. A., Anagnostakis, S. L., and Day, P. R. 1975. Chestnut blight. Biological control by transmissible hypovirulence in Endothia parasitica. Science 189:890-891.
37. Wickner, R. B. 1996. Double-stranded RNA viruses of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Microbiol. Rev. 60:250-265.
38. Zanziger, D. H., Bandy, B. P., and Tavantzis, S. M. 1984. High frequency of finding double-stranded RNA in naturally occurring isolates of Rhizoctonia solani. J. Gen. Virol. 65:1601-1605.