Characterization of iprodione-resistant Alternaria isolates from pistachio in California

Alternaria late blight caused by Alternaria spp. in the alternata, tenuissima, and arborescens species-groups is one of the most common fungal diseases of pistachio in California. In this study, a field iprodione-resistant (FIR) isolate of the arborescens species-group and a laboratory-induced iprodione-resistant (LIIR) isolate of the alternata species-group were characterized by fungicide and osmotic sensitivity, virulence on detached pistachio leaflets, and sequence of the coiled-coil region (six repeats of approximately 90-amino-acid domain) of the two-component histidine kinase (HK) gene. Both FIR and LIIR isolates were sensitive to azoxystrobin and tebuconazole, and azoxystrobin-resistant isolates were sensitive to iprodione and tebuconazole. The LIIR isolate showed more sensitivity to osmotic stress than its wild-type parent. However, the FIR isolate did not show higher osmotic sensitivity compared to field iprodione-sensitive (FIS) isolates. Laboratory inoculation tests showed that both FIR and LIIR isolates remained highly virulent on pistachio. Analysis of DNA sequences of the HK coiled-coil region showed that there were no differences in deduced amino acid sequence of this region from the LIIR, FIR, and FIS Alternaria isolates from pistachio in California.     

Sensitivity to iprodione and boscalid of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum isolates collected from rapeseed in China

Baseline sensitivity of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, causal agent of stem rot of rapeseed, to a dicarboximide fungicide iprodione was determined using 50 isolates (historic population) collected in 2001 from the rapeseed fields without a previous history of dicarboximide usage. The 50% effective concentration (EC₅₀) values to iprodione of these wild-type isolates ranged from 0.163 to 0.734 μg/ml with a mean of 0.428 μg/ml. In 2007 and 2008, 111 isolates (current population) were collected from rapeseed fields with 4–5 years of iprodione application. The EC₅₀ values of these 111 isolates ranged from 0.117 to 0.634 μg/ml. The historic and current populations were not significantly (P > 0.05) different in sensitivity to iprodione. The EC₅₀ values of these 161 isolates to a carboxamide fungicide boscalid ranged from 0.002 to 0.391 μg/ml with a mean of 0.042 μg/ml. In the laboratory, three iprodione-resistant (IR) isolates HA17-IR, SZ31-IR, and SZ45-IR were induced from wild-type isolates HA17, SZ31, and SZ45, respectively. The EC₅₀ values of the IR isolates were 200-fold higher than those of the original wild-type parents. The IR isolates showed an increase in osmotic sensitivity. The IR isolate HA17-IR lost its ability to produce sclerotia, and showed a significantly lower virulence on rapeseed leaves than its parent isolate HA17. In contrast, the IR isolate SZ31-IR had a significantly higher virulence than its wild-type parent SZ31. PCR assays showed that the partial two-component histidine kinase (os-1) gene, which is the putative target gene of iprodione, was deleted in the low virulent IR isolate HA17-IR. DNA sequence analysis showed that each of the other two IR isolates SZ31-IR and SZ45-IR had two point mutations in their partial os-1 genes. These results indicate that the mutations in os-1 gene may be associated with dicarboximide sensitivity, sclerotial development, and virulence in S. sclerotiorum.     

The potential use of carvacrol for the control of <Emphasis Type="Italic">Meloidogyne javanica</Emphasis>

The protein kinase HOG1 in high osmolarity glycerol pathway is one of mitogen-activated protein kinases and plays an important role in fungi cellular responses to external stress and stimuli. In this study, AlHOG1, a yeast HOG1 homolog, was isolated from tobacco pathogenic fungus Alternaria longipes and its disrupted mutants were generated using homologous recombination. Compared with the wild-type strain, the mutants grew slower under Minimal-Media, produced less conidia on Potato-Dextrose-Agar and showed a retardation phenotype in conidial germination rate. Colony color observation indicated that AlHOG1 most likely negatively regulated melanin production under nutrients-deficient or osmotic stress. The same action mode of AlHOG1 on hyphal growth in response to certain carbon or nitrogen sources was speculated. Additionally, the disrupted strains were sensitive to osmotic and oxidative stress, and showed increased resistance to dicarboximide, phenylpyrrole and carbendazim fungicides. Meanwhile, results from the comparative analysis between the AlHOG1- and the AlHK1 (encoding a group III histidine kinase)-disrupted mutants showed that AlHOG1 mediated-pathway was partly regulated by the upstream AlHK1 kinase for cellular resistance to salts osmotic stress and that AlHK1 was a primary regulator for cellular sugar and fungicides stress adaptation and likely modulated both AlHOG1-mediated pathway and other unknown mechanisms. Noteworthily, AlHOG1 but not AlHK1 was confirmed to be associated with high concentration glycerol adaptation, which is the first report to our knowledge. Overall, our results indicated that AlHOG1 was involved in multiple physiological processes in A. longipes, including mycelial and conidial development, melanin production, nutrients sensing and multi-stress responses.     

Evolution of an Osmosensing Histidine Kinase in Field Strains of Botryotinia fuckeliana (Botrytis cinerea) in Response to Dicarboximide Fungicide Usage

ABSTRACT DNA sequence polymorphisms in the putative two-component histidine protein kinase encoded by the Daf1 gene have been identified within a sample of 5 sensitive and 27 dicarboximide-resistant field strains of Botryotinia fuckeliana (anamorph Botrytis cinerea). The gene of 3948 bp is predicted to encode a 1315-amino acid protein comprising an N-terminal region, an amino acid repeat region, which has been hypothesized to be the binding site for dicarboximide fungicide, and a C-terminal region encompassing kinase and response regulator domains. Two amino acid variants were distinguished among the sensitive strains characterized by alanine (group 1), or threonine (group 2), at position 1259 in the C-terminal region. All resistant strains could be classified into either group 1 or group 2 but, in addition, all showed changes in the second amino acid repeat region. On the basis of the differences in this repeat region, four classes of resistant strains were recognized; class 1 characterized by an isoleucine to serine mutation, class 2 by an isoleucine to asparagine mutation, class 3 by an isoleucine to arginine mutation (all at position 365), and class 4 by an isoleucine to serine mutation (position 365) as well as a glutamine to proline mutation (position 369). All classes showed similar low levels of resistance to iprodione and to vinclozolin, except for class 3 and class 4 strains, which show low resistance to iprodione but moderate (class 3) or high (class 4) resistance to vinclozolin. The classes as a group did not differ from sensitive strains in osmotic sensitivity measured as mycelial growth response, but some class 1 strains showed an abnormal morphology on osmotically amended medium. The evolution of the amino acid differences is discussed in relation to field observations. It is proposed that class 1 and class 2 strains arose by single mutations within the sensitive population, whereas classes 3 and 4 arose by single mutations within a resistant population.     

欧美杨细菌性溃疡病菌双组分系统lqp0812-lqp0813基因功能研究

  Lonsdalea quercina subsp. populi引起的欧美杨溃疡病是严重威胁欧美杨人工林生产的细菌性病害。双组分系统是细菌最重要的信号转导通路之一,在细菌的生长繁殖、环境适应、胁迫耐受性以及致病过程中发挥重要作用。为探索L. quercina 中双组分系统编码基因的功能,本研究利用同源重组对双组分系统编码基因lqp0812和lqp0813进行缺失突变,并研究其生物学功能。表型分析显示,与野生型菌株N-5-1相比,Δlqp0812和Δlqp0813突变体在生长速率、金属离子胁迫、盐胁迫、渗透胁迫及致病性方面没有显著差异;但Δlqp0812突变体在游动性上与野生型N-5-1相比显著减弱;Δlqp0812和Δlqp0813突变体生物被膜的形成能力,对过氧化氢、抗生素的耐受性都显著增强。qRT-PCR结果显示,在Δlqp0812和Δlqp0813突变体中,外排泵基因acrA、mdtB、aaeB的表达量与野生型相比显著升高。研究结果表明,lqp0812参与病原菌的游动性,lqp0812与lqp0813共同负调控菌株生物膜的形成和对氧化胁迫、抗生素胁迫的耐受性。     

Characterization of mutations in the two-component histidine kinase gene that confer fludioxonil resistance and osmotic sensitivity in the os-1 mutants of Neurospora crassa

Osmotic-sensitive (os-1) mutant alleles in Neurospora crassa exhibit resistance to dicarboximides, aromatic hydrocarbons and phenylpyrroles. We have previously reported that the os-1 mutants can be classified into two groups based on their resistance to fungicides and osmotic stress: type I, which are highly resistant to iprodione and fludioxonil but moderately sensitive to osmotic stress, and type II, which are highly sensitive to osmotic stress but moderately resistant to fungicides. To explain the mechanism of resistance to these fungicides, we cloned and sequenced the mutant os-1 genes that encode putative osmo-sensing histidine kinase. Within the os-1 gene product (Os1p), the type I strains, NM233t and Y256M209, carried a stop codon at amino acid position 308 and a frameshift at amino acid position 294, respectively. These mutation sites were located on the upstream of histidine kinase and the response regulator domains of Os1p, strongly suggesting that type I strains are null mutants. The null mutants, NM233t and Y256M209, were highly resistant to iprodione and fludioxonil; thus Os1p is essential for these fungicides to express their antifungal activity. The amino acid changes in Os1p, 625Pro from Leu, 578Val from Ala, and 580Arg from Gly were found in the type II strains, M16, M155-1 and P5990, respectively. Os1p is novel in having six tandem repeats of 90 amino acids in the N terminal. Each amino acid change of the type II strains was located on the fifth unit of six tandem repeats. Type II strains with single amino acid changes were more sensitive to osmotic stress than the null mutants (type I), indicating that the amino acid repeats of Os1p were responsible for an important function in osmo-regulation.     

Effect of Phenylpyrrole-resistance Mutations on Ecological Fitness of <Emphasis Type="Italic">Botrytis cinerea</Emphasis> and their Genetical Basis in <Emphasis Type="Italic">Ustilago maydis</Emphasis>

Mutants of Botrytis cinerea and Ustilago maydis highly resistant to fludioxonil were isolated at a high frequency, after nitrosoguanidine or UV mutagenesis, respectively, and selection on media containing fludioxonil. Tests on the response of mutant strains to high osmotic pressure resulted in the identification of two fludioxonil-resistant phenotypes (FLD_osm/s and FLD_osm/r), regarding the sensitivity to high osmolarity. Approximately 95% of fludioxonil-resistant mutants were found to be more sensitive to high osmotic pressure than the wild-type parent strains. Genetic analysis of phenylpyrrole-resistance in the phytopathogenic basidiomycete U. maydis, showed that fludioxonil-resistance was coded by three unlinked chromosomal loci (U/fld-1, U/fld-2 and U/fld-3), from which only the U/fld-1 mutation coded an osmotic sensitivity similar to that of the wild-types. Cross-resistance studies with fungicides from other chemical groups showed that the mutations for resistance to phenylpyrroles affect the sensitivity of mutant strains to the aromatic hydrocarbon and dicarboximide fungicides, but not to the benzimidazoles, anilinopyrimidines, phenylpyridinamines, hydroxyanilides or the sterol biosynthesis inhibiting fungicides. A study of fitness parameters in the wild-type and fludioxonil-resistant mutants of B. cinerea, showed that all osmotic sensitive (B/FLD_osm/s) isolates had significant reductions in the characteristics determining saprophytic fitness such as mycelial growth, sporulation, conidial germination and sclerotial production. Contrary to that, with the exception of mycelial growth, the fitness parameters were unaffected or only slightly affected in most of the osmotic resistant (B/FLD_osm/r) isolates. Tests on cucumber seedlings showed that the osmotic-sensitive strains were significantly less pathogenic compared with the wild-type and B/FLD_osm/r strains of B. cinerea. Preventative applications of the commercial products Saphire 50 WP (fludioxonil) and Rovral 50 WP (iprodione) were effective against lesion development on cotyledons by the wild-type and the mutant strains of B. cinerea that were resistant to the anilinopyrimidine cyprodinil (B/CPL-27) and to the hydroxyanilide fenhexamid (B/FNH-21), but ineffective, even at high concentrations, against disease caused by the fludioxonil-resistant isolates (B/FLD) and a mutant strain resistant to the dicarboximide iprodione (B/IPR-1). Experiments on the stability of the fludioxonil-resistant phenotype showed a reduction of resistance, mainly in osmotic-sensitive isolates, when the mutants were grown on inhibitor-free medium. A rapid recovery of the high resistance was observed after mutants were returned to the selection medium. Studies on the competitive ability of mutant isolates against the wild-type parent strain of B. cinerea, by applications of a mixed conidial population, showed that, in vitro, all mutants were less competitive than the wild-type strain. However, the competitive ability of osmotic-resistant mutants was higher than the osmotic-sensitive ones. Furthermore, competition tests, in planta, showed a significant reduction of the frequency of both phenylpyrrole-resistant phenotypes, with a respective increase in the population of the wild-type strain of the pathogen.     

山茶炭疽菌CcSnf1基因参与调控山茶炭疽菌的生长发育和致病力

 油茶炭疽病是油茶上的重要病害,山茶炭疽菌(Colletotrichum camelliae)是该病害的优势病原菌。本研究以山茶炭疽菌中丝氨酸/苏氨酸类蛋白激酶SNF1蛋白复合体的核心组分CcSnf1为研究对象,研究其在山茶炭疽菌的营养生长、产孢量、孢子萌发、附着胞形成、对环境胁迫因子的响应、对不同碳源的利用、致病力等方面的生物学功能,为油茶炭疽病的防控提供理论依据。研究结果表明,山茶炭疽菌CcSnf1基因编码的蛋白为719个氨基酸,含有一个蛋白激酶催化结构域、一个泛素相关结构域和一个腺苷酸感应器结构域。CcSnf1是果生炭疽菌CfSnf1和胶孢炭疽菌CgSnf1的高度同源物。该基因的敲除体菌丝生长减慢,分生孢子产量显著降低,对不同碳源、细胞壁完整性因子和渗透压胁迫因子有不同程度的敏感性。侵染早期阶段的孢子萌发率和附着胞形成率显著受影响,随后CcSnf1的敲除体对油茶果实和叶片的致病力明显减弱。本研究表明CcSnf1在山茶炭疽菌的菌丝生长、产孢、胁迫因子响应、对特定碳源的利用和致病力具有重要的作用。     

杧果炭疽病菌Colletotrichum asianum和C.fructicola的危害特征及对杀菌剂的敏感性初探

通过离体针刺接种法初步探讨了广西杧果炭疽病的主要致病菌Colletotrichum asianum和C.fructicola在不同品种杧果上的危害症状及致病力,并用生长速率法测定这2种病菌代表菌株对咪鲜胺和吡唑醚菌酯的敏感性。结果显示:C.asianum和C.fructicola侵染同一品种杧果的症状仅有细微的差别;每种病菌对不同品种杧果的致病力有较明显的差异,其中C.asianum对‘桂七杧’的致病力最强,对‘台农一号杧’的致病力最弱,C.fructicola对‘金煌杧’的致病力最强,对‘四季蜜杧’的致病力最弱。咪鲜胺对C.asianum和C.fructicola的代表菌株的EC 50分别为0.0395~0.1322μg/mL、0.0571~0.1574μg/mL,吡唑醚菌酯对C.asianum和C.fructicola的代表菌株的EC 50分别为0.0109~0.5616μg/mL、0.1511~0.4474μg/mL,其中C.asianum对吡唑醚菌酯的最大EC 50是最小EC 50的51.5倍,存在抗药性风险。研究结果为杧果炭疽病的正确诊断、防治等提供理论依据。     

Characterization of the RcsC sensor kinase from Erwinia amylovora and other Enterobacteria

RcsC is a hybrid sensor kinase which contains a sensor domain, a histidine kinase domain, and a receiver domain. We have previously demonstrated that, although the Erwinia amylovora rcsC mutant produces more amylovoran than the wild-type (WT) strain in vitro, the mutant remains nonpathogenic on both immature pear fruit and apple plants. In this study, we have comparatively characterized the Erwinia RcsC and its homologs from various enterobacteria. Results demonstrate that expression of the Erwinia rcsC gene suppresses amylovoran production in various amylovoran overproducing WT and mutant strains, thus suggesting the presence of a net phosphatase activity of Erwinia RcsC. Findings have also demonstrated that rcsC homologs from other enterobacteria could not rescue amylovoran production of the Erwinia rcsC mutant in vitro. However, virulence of the Erwinia rcsC mutant is partially restored by rcsC homologs from Pantoea stewartii, Yersinia pestis, and Salmonella enterica but not from Escherichia coli on apple shoots. Domain-swapping experiments have indicated that replacement of the E. coli RcsC sensor domain by those of Erwinia and Yersinia spp. partially restores virulence of the Erwinia rcsC mutant, whereas chimeric constructs containing the sensor domain of E. coli RcsC could not rescue virulence of the Erwinia rcsC mutant on apple. Interestingly, only chimeric constructs containing the histidine kinase and receiver domains of Erwinia RcsC are fully capable of rescuing amylovoran production. These results suggest that the sensor domain of RcsC may be important in regulating bacterial virulence, whereas the activity of the histidine kinase and receiver domains of Erwinia RcsC may be essential for amylovoran production in vitro.     

Adaptation to fungicides in Monilinia fructicola isolates with different fungicide resistance phenotypes

The ability to develop fungicide resistance was assessed in Monilinia fructicola isolates with different fungicide sensitivity phenotypes by adapting mycelium and conidia to increasing concentrations of selective fungicides and UV mutagenesis. Results showed that adaptation to Quinone outside inhibitor (QoI) fungicide azoxystrobin and sterol demethylation inhibitor (DMI) fungicide propiconazole was more effective in conidial-transfer experiments compared to mycelial-transfer experiments. DMI-resistant (DMI-R) isolates adapted to significantly higher doses of azoxystrobin in both, mycelial- and conidial-transfer experiments compared to benzimidazole-resistant (BZI-R) and sensitive (S) isolates. Adaptation to propiconazole in conidial-transfer experiments was accelerated in BZI-R isolates when a stable, nonlethal dose of 50 microg/ml thiophanate-methyl was added to the selection medium. One of two azoxystrobin-resistant mutants from DMI-R isolates did not show any fitness penalties; the other isolate expired before further tests could be carried out. The viable mutant caused larger lesions on detached peach fruit sprayed with azoxystrobin compared to the parental isolate. The azoxystrobin sensitivity of the viable mutant returned to baseline levels after the mutant was transferred to unamended medium. However, azoxystrobin resistance recovered quicker in the mutant compared to the corresponding parental isolate after renewed subculturing on medium amended with 0.2 and 1 microg/ml azoxystrobin; only the mutant but not the parental isolate was able to adapt to 5 microg/ml azoxystrobin. In UV mutagenesis experiments, the DMI-R isolates produced significantly more mutants compared to S isolates. All of the UV-induced mutants showed stable fungicide resistance with little fitness penalty. This study indicates the potential for QoI fungicide resistance development in M. fructicola in the absence of a mutagen and provides evidence for increased mutability and predisposition to accelerated adaptation to azoxystrobin in M. fructicola isolates resistant to DMI fungicides.     

A Point Mutation in the Two-Component Histidine Kinase BcOS-1 Gene Confers Dicarboximide Resistance in Field Isolates of Botrytis cinerea

ABSTRACT Partial DNA fragments of Botrytis cinerea field isolates encoding the putative osmosensor histidine kinase gene (BcOS1) were cloned by polymerase chain reaction amplification and the predicted amino acid sequences were compared between dicarboximide-sensitive and resistant field isolates. The predicted BcOS1p is highly homologous to osmosensor histidine kinase OS1p from Neurospora crassa including the N-terminal six tandem repeats of approximately 90 amino acids. Four dicarboximide-resistant isolates of B. cinerea (Bc-19, Bc-45, Bc-682, and Bc-RKR) contained a single base pair mutation in their BcOS1 gene that resulted in an amino acid substitution in the predicted protein. In these resistant isolates, codon 86 of the second repeat, which encodes an isoleucine residue in sensitive strains, was converted to a codon for serine. The mutation of Botrytis field resistant isolates was located on the second unit of tandem amino acid repeats of BcOS1p, whereas the point mutations of the fifth repeat of OS1p confer resistance to both dicarboximides and phenylpyrroles and also osmotic sensitivity in Neurospora crassa. These results suggest that an amino acid substitution within the second repeat of BcOS1p is responsible for phenotypes of field resistant isolates (resistant to dicarboximides but sensitive to phenylpyrroles, and normal osmotic sensitivity) in B. cinerea.     

The Role of Ethylene Production in Virulence of Pseudomonas syringae pvs. glycinea and phaseolicola

ABSTRACT The importance of ethylene production for virulence of Pseudomonas syringae pvs. glycinea and phaseolicola was assayed by comparing bacterial multiplication and symptom development in bean and soybean plants inoculated with ethylene-negative (efe) mutants and wild-type strains. The efe mutants of Pseudomonas syringae pv. glycinea were significantly reduced in their ability to grow in planta. However, the degree of reduction was strain-dependent. Population sizes of efe mutant 16/83-E1 that did not produce the phototoxin coronatine were 10- and 15-fold lower than those of the wild-type strain on soybean and on bean, and 16/83-E1 produced very weak symptoms compared with the wild-type strain. The coronatine-producing efe mutant 7a/90-E1 reached fourfold and twofold lower population sizes compared with the wild-type strain on soybean and bean, respectively, and caused disease symptoms typical of the wild-type strain. Experiments with ethylene-insensitive soybeans confirmed these results. The virulence of the wild-type strains was reduced to the same extent in ethylene-insensitive soybean plants as the virulence of the efe mutants in ethylene-susceptible soybeans. In contrast, the virulence of Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola was not affected by disruption of the efe gene.     

Inoculum dynamics, fruit infection, and development of brown rot in prune orchards in california

ABSTRACT Brown rot, caused by Monilinia fructicola, is a destructive disease of stone fruit in California. Disease management requires information on inoculum dynamics and development of latent and visible fruit infections during the season to help make decisions on timing of fungicide treatments and choice of cultural practices. In this study, the daily spore concentration (ascospores and conidia) of M. fructicola in the air was monitored with spore traps in two prune orchards during the growing seasons in 2001 and 2002. The spore concentrations were low to moderate at early bloom, increased at full bloom, and decreased to the lowest level at the end of bloom. Improper timing of fruit thinning and irrigation in midseason increased spore concentration in the air and fruit infections late in the season. Artificial fruit inoculations were conducted periodically in 10 prune orchards in 2002 and 2004, and incidence of fruit rot at different inoculation dates was assessed. Fruit rot development rate increased linearly with inoculation date during the growing season. Natural blossom and fruit infections were monitored periodically in 10 prune orchards, and incidence of latent fruit infection was determined by using the overnight freezing-incubation technique. Incidence of fruit rot also was assessed 2 weeks before harvest in these orchards. The incidence of latent fruit infection at the pit hardening stage significantly correlated with that at the late stages and with the incidence of fruit rot at harvest.     

Characterization and genetic analysis of laboratory mutants of <Emphasis Type="Italic">Cochliobolus heterostrophus</Emphasis> resistant to dicarboximide and phenylpyrrole fungicides

 Laboratory mutants of Cochliobolus heterostrophus resistant to iprodione were obtained after chemical mutageneses. All the mutants were able to grow on the medium amended with iprodione 100 μg/ml. They showed positive cross-resistance to procymidone and fludioxonil and were sensitive to high osmolarity. Crosses between the mutant and a wild-type strain revealed that the fungicide resistance and osmotic sensitivity traits were inherited by their offspring in a 1 : 1 mutant/wild type ratio, indicating that the mutant phenotypes in these strains were due to alteration at a single gene locus. Results from allelism tests indicated that three genes (Dic1, Dic2, Dic3) conferred the mutant phenotypes. Among them, Dic1 mutant strains were classified into three types on the basis of their phenotypes. The first type was moderately resistant to the fungicides and less sensitive to osmotic stress than the other Dic1 mutant strains. The second type showed moderate fungicide resistance, but growth was inhibited under lower osmotic stress (50 mM KCl). The other Dic1 mutant strains grew well on medium containing iprodione and fludioxonil even at a concentration of 100 μg/ml and were highly sensitive to osmotic stress. The Dic2 and Dic3 mutant strains had moderate resistance to the fungicides with low-level osmotic sensitivity. The Dic1 gene was epistatic to Dic2 and Dic3 for fungicide resistance and hypostatic to them for osmotic sensitivity. These results suggest that the osmoregulatory system is involved in fungicide resistance in laboratory mutants of C. heterostrophus. Received: March 14, 2002 / Accepted: August 13, 2002     

西瓜蔓枯病菌啶酰菌胺抗性突变体的生物学特性研究及其Sdh B基因位点检测

为评价西瓜蔓枯病菌对啶酰菌胺的抗性风险,了解其抗性机理,室内通过药剂驯化方法获得2株啶酰菌胺的抗性突变体XF21-3和YC60-1,测定了抗性突变体的生物学特性,并通过对Sdh B基因片段的测序比对,分析了西瓜蔓枯病菌对啶酰菌胺的抗性机理。生物测定结果表明:啶酰菌胺对2株抗性突变体的EC50值分别为108和124 μg/mL,抗性倍数（RR）分别为1 007和1 347,均为高抗菌株;抗性突变体的菌丝生长速率和产孢量均大于亲本菌株,但其致病性与亲本菌株无显著差异,对外界环境渗透压的敏感性低于亲本菌株;此外,啶酰菌胺与萎锈灵、戊唑醇、乙霉威及醚菌酯之间均不存在交互抗性,但与噻呋酰胺之间存在交互抗性。Sdh B基因片段测序及比对结果表明,高抗性突变体中Sdh B亚基277位上的氨基酸所对应的碱基由CAC突变为TAC,即由组氨酸（His）突变为酪氨酸（Tyr）。研究表明,西瓜蔓枯病菌在药剂选择压力下容易形成啶酰菌胺的抗性群体,且抗性突变体的离体适合度高于亲本菌株,此外,啶酰菌胺与同类型杀菌剂噻呋酰胺之间存在交互抗性,因此认为西瓜蔓枯病菌对啶酰菌胺具有中等抗性风险;同时进一步验证了Sdh B亚基277位上的氨基酸突变（His→Tyr,CAC→TAC）是西瓜蔓枯病菌对啶酰菌胺产生抗性的原因。     

Sequence variation in the two-component histidine kinase gene of Botrytis cinerea associated with resistance to dicarboximide fungicides

The complete two-component histidine kinase gene (Bos1) was sequenced from eight dicarboximide-resistant (D^R) and six-sensitive (D^S) field isolates of Botrytis cinerea. Comparisons in the predicted amino acid sequences of Bos1 showed that each two D^R isolates had a single point mutation at amino acid position 365 from an isoleucine to serine (I365S) or to an asparagine (I365N). Three D^R isolates were characterized with a change from glutamine to proline at position 369 (Q369P) as well as an asparagine to serine at the position 373 (N373S). These mutations located within the 90-amino-acid repeats of Bos1 have been reported previously. One new mutation, however, was found in the D^R isolate 65-E8. In this isolate, a null mutation at the amino acid position 1040 in the Bos1 was detected. Inoculation tests showed that this isolate was nearly nonpathogenic to cucumber. After the Bos1 gene from the sensitive isolate 38B1 was transferred into the resistant isolate 65-E8, all transformants tested were sensitive to iprodione and capable of infecting cucumber. DNA fingerprint generated by micro-satellite primed-PCR showed that isolates were not clustered based on their sensitivity to iprodione. Results from this study indicate that mutations in the Bos1 gene associated with dicarboximide resistance are diverse in B. cinerea, and the Bos1 gene is associated with virulence of B. cinerea.     

柑橘溃疡病菌gpd1基因在致病性中的功能分析

 甘油作为微生物重要的能量来源及抗逆因子,对其生存具有重要作用。gpd1基因编码甘油-3-磷酸脱氢酶(glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, G3PDH),是甘油合成代谢途径中关键的限速酶。本研究分析了gpd1基因在柑橘溃疡病菌(Xanthomonas citri subsp. citri, Xcc)致病性中的功能。对Xcc强毒菌株Xcc021和弱毒菌株Xcc049E分别进行了gpd1的缺失突变,发现gpd1缺失仅影响强毒菌株Xcc021在感病柑橘寄主上的毒性以及gpd1缺失影响Xcc在营养贫乏培养基中的生长能力,功能互补子能够恢复毒性和生长能力至野生型水平。其他毒性相关表型显示:与野生型Xcc021相比,gpd1突变体菌体的沉降能力增加,游动性降低,生物膜形成能力增强,功能互补子能够恢复这些表型至野生型水平。这表明gpd1基因在强毒菌株中是重要的毒性因子,其涉及的甘油代谢途径可能在强弱毒菌株对于寄主柑橘的毒性具有不同的作用。     

柑橘溃疡病菌gpd1基因在致病性中的功能分析

 甘油作为微生物重要的能量来源及抗逆因子,对其生存具有重要作用。gpd1基因编码甘油-3-磷酸脱氢酶(glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, G3PDH),是甘油合成代谢途径中关键的限速酶。本研究分析了gpd1基因在柑橘溃疡病菌(Xanthomonas citri subsp. citri, Xcc)致病性中的功能。对Xcc强毒菌株Xcc021和弱毒菌株Xcc049E分别进行了gpd1的缺失突变,发现gpd1缺失仅影响强毒菌株Xcc021在感病柑橘寄主上的毒性以及gpd1缺失影响Xcc在营养贫乏培养基中的生长能力,功能互补子能够恢复毒性和生长能力至野生型水平。其他毒性相关表型显示:与野生型Xcc021相比,gpd1突变体菌体的沉降能力增加,游动性降低,生物膜形成能力增强,功能互补子能够恢复这些表型至野生型水平。这表明gpd1基因在强毒菌株中是重要的毒性因子,其涉及的甘油代谢途径可能在强弱毒菌株对于寄主柑橘的毒性具有不同的作用。     

Effect of null mutations in the AbNIK1 gene on saprophytic and parasitic fitness of Alternaria brassicicola isolates highly resistant to dicarboximide fungicides

Alternaria brassicicola field isolates highly resistant to dicarboximide fungicides (DCF) and carrying non‐sense codons or micro‐deletions in the AbNIK1 gene encoding a group III histidine kinase were characterized at the protein level using specific antibodies. These isolates, as well as laboratory mutants expressing the same resistant phenotype, were shown to correspond to null mutants. The fitness of these isolates was compared to that of wild‐type isolates by measuring i) mycelial growth, ii) sporulation and iii) conidial germination under standard conditions. None of these factors were affected in the resistant isolates. Mycelial growth was also measured under stress conditions. Unlike suboptimal incubation temperatures or exposure to the superoxide ion generator menadione, osmotic stress generated by high sorbitol concentrations in the culture medium significantly affected the growth of AbNIK1‐null mutants compared to wild‐types. The effects of these mutations on parasitic fitness were estimated under both controlled and field conditions after inoculation of radish with individual isolates, to measure their aggressiveness, or with mixed conidial suspensions, to measure their competitive ability against wild‐type isolates. These tests on radish seedlings revealed that DCF‐resistant isolates were still aggressive. Despite this, the data obtained in the competition experiments showed that the loss of the ability to synthesize AbNIK1p in A. brassicicola DCF‐resistant mutants was linked to a severe decrease in their competitiveness.