Molecular Tools for Detection of Plant Pathogenic Fungi and Fungicide Resistance

By N. Capote, A. M. Pastrana, A. Aguado, P. Sánchez-Torres. 2012

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Plant pathogenic fungi are the causal agents of the most detrimental diseases in plants, including economically important crops, provoking considerable yield losses worldwide. Fungal pathogens can infect a wide range of plant species or be restricted to one or few host species. Some of them are obligate parasites requiring the presence of the living host to grow and reproduce, but most of them are saprophytic and can survive without the presence of the living plant, in the soil, water or air. Isolates of a fungal species can be differentiated by morphological characteristics, host range (formae speciales), pathogenic aggressiveness (pathotypes or races) or their ability to form stable vegetative heterokaryons by fusion between genetically different strains (belonging to the same vegetative compatibility group, VCG).

Subfields: Cell Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science

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• Recent advances in molecular techniques for the identification of phytopathogenic fungi – a mini review (2017, background): “Actually, mRNA in dead cells is degraded; so the detection of mRNA by RT-PCR can be done to check the cell viability (Capote et al. 2012).”