Genome Expansion and Gene Loss in Powdery Mildew Fungi Reveal Tradeoffs in Extreme Parasitism

By P. Spanu, J. Abbott, J. Amselem, Timothy A. Burgis, D. Soanes, K. Stüber, E. V. Loren van Themaat, James K. M. Brown, S. Butcher, Sarah J. Gurr and 53 more. Science, 2010

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Genome of an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus provides insight into the oldest plant symbiosis (2013, background): “Thus, it appears that biotrophy is associated with a convergent loss of secondary metabolic enzymes and PCW-degrading enzymes (20).”
The Paleozoic Origin of Enzymatic Lignin Decomposition Reconstructed from 31 Fungal Genomes (2012, result): “According to the present results and previous data on plant symbiotic and pathogenic fungi and oomycetes it seems that most TE-rich fungi interact with living plants (35-38).”
The Parasitic Plant Genome Project: New Tools for Understanding the Biology of Orobanche and Striga (2012, background): “…of other plant pathogens (Baxter et al. 2010; Bowen et al. 2009; Cramer et al. 2006; Raffaele et al. 2010; Roze et al. 2008; Schirawski et al. 2010; Spanu et al. 2010) and the application of high-throughput sequencing and computational approaches will likely provide significant novel information…”
Genomic Analysis of the Necrotrophic Fungal Pathogens Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and Botrytis cinerea (2011, background): “For instance, the CAZyme content in the genomes of N. crassa (Table S19), as well as Hypocrea jecorina and Podospora anserina (not shown) suggests a preference of these fungi for cellulose and hemicellulose rather than for pectin.”
Proteogenomics and in silico structural and functional annotation of the barley powdery mildew Blumeria graminis f. sp. hordei. (2011, methodology): “Blumeria graminis is an economically important obligate plant-pathogenic fungus, whose entire genome was recently sequenced and manually annotated using ab initio in silico predictions (Spanu et al. 2010, Science 330, 1543-1546).”
Obligate biotrophy features unraveled by the genomic analysis of rust fungi (2011, background): “tritici, but some losses of clear impact, including the deletion of genes apparently not essential for the obligate biotrophic lifestyle (nitrate and sulfur assimilation), and a reduced set of PCW polysaccharide degrading enzymes, are genomic hallmarks of rust fungi, and, more broadly, of biotrophic”