Horizontal gene and chromosome transfer in plant pathogenic fungi affecting host range

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 542-554

  Mehrabi, Rahim ^a,b   Bahkali, Ali H ^c   Abd Elsalam, Kamel A ^c   Moslem, Mohamed ^c   Ben M'Barek, Sarrah ^a   Gohari, Amir Mirzadi ^a   Jashni, Mansoor Karimi ^a   Stergiopoulos, Ioannis ^a   Kema, Gert H J ^a   De Wit, Pierre J G M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b SEED AND PLANT IMPROVEMENT INSTITUTE   (Iran)

^c KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Anastomosis; Conditionally dispensable chromosome; Interspecies hybridization; Pathogenicity; Toxins; Virulence

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; FUNGAL PROTEIN; HYGROMYCIN; PHLEOMYCIN; TOXA PROTEIN; TOXIN; TSN1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNARIA; ALTERNARIA ALTERNATA; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIFUNGAL RESISTANCE; APPLE; COCHLIOBOLUS CARBONUM; COCHLIOBOLUS HETEROSTROPHUS; COLLETOTRICHUM; COLLETOTRICHUM GLOEOSPORIOIDES; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS; FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM LYCOPERSICI; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DOSAGE; GENE TRANSFER; HORIZONTAL CHROMOSOME TRANSFER; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOST; INTERSPECIFIC HYBRIDIZATION; JAPANESE PEAR; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NECTRIA HAEMATOCOCCA; NONHUMAN; OOMYCETES; PEAR; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT FUNGUS INTERACTION; PLANT PATHOGENIC FUNGI; PYRENOPHORA TRITICI REPENTIS; REVIEW; SPECIES COMPARISON; TOMATO; VERTICAL CHROMOSOME TRANSFER; WHEAT;

ASCOMYCOTA; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HOST SPECIFICITY; PLANT DISEASES; PLANTS;

ALTERNARIA; FRAGARIA X ANANASSA; FUNGI; FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MALUS X DOMESTICA; PHAEOSPHAERIA NODORUM; PYRENOPHORA TRITICI-REPENTIS; PYRUS PYRIFOLIA VAR. CULTA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 79953306222     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: 15746976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2010.00263.x     Document Type: Review

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