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T1 Residual effects caused by a past mycovirus infection in Fusarium circinatum
A1 Zamora Ballesteros, Cristina
A1 Wingfield, Brenda D.
A1 Wingfield, Michael J.
A1 Martín García, Jorge
A1 Díez Casero, Julio Javier
K1 Pinos - Enfermedades y plagas
K1 Hongos - Enfermedades y plagas
K1 Hongos patógenos
K1 ARN
K1 Bosques y silvicultura
K1 Trees - Diseases and pests
K1 3106 Ciencia Forestal
AB Mycoviruses are known to be difficult to cure in fungi but their spontaneous loss occurs commonly. The unexpected disappearance of mycoviruses can be explained by diverse reasons, from methodological procedures to biological events such as posttranscriptional silencing machinery. The long-term effects of a virus infection on the host organism have been well studied in the case of human viruses; however, the possible residual effect on a fungus after the degradation of a mycovirus is unknown. For that, this study analyses a possible residual effect on the transcriptome of the pathogenic fungus Fusarium circinatum after the loss of the mitovirus FcMV1. The mycovirus that previously infected the fungal isolate was not recovered after a 4-year storage period. Only 14 genes were determined as differentially expressed and were related to cell cycle regulation and amino acid metabolism. The results showed a slight acceleration in the metabolism of the host that had lost the mycovirus by the upregulation of the genes involved in essential functions for fungal development. The analysis also revealed a weak expression in the annotated genes of the RNA silencing machinery. To our knowledge, this is the first time that a potential residual effect on the host transcriptome caused by the past infection of a mycovirus is reported.
PB MDPI
SN 1999-4907
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/58906
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/58906
LA eng
NO Forests, 2021, Vol. 12, Nº. 1, 11
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 24-nov-2024