Distinguishable staining with neutral red for GFP-marked and GFP-nonmarked <Emphasis Type="Italic">Fusarium oxysporum</Emphasis> strains simultaneously colonizing root surfaces

 Green fluorescent protein (GFP)-marked Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. melonis and nonmarked F. oxysporum f. sp. fragariae were stained with neutral red. The neutral red stained vacuoles of the fungi without disturbing GFP fluorescence in the cytoplasm. GFP-marked fungi showed fluorescent hyphae with dark-stained vacuoles, whereas nonmarked fungi were detected as nonfluorescent hyphae with dark-dotted vacuoles. Root colonization by these two fungi was monitored using this method. Microconidia attached similarly to the root surface and elongated vegetative hyphae. Only the pathogenic fungi invaded, causing necrosis at the inoculation site. Thus, the present method enabled us to track simultaneously the various formae speciales of F. oxysporum colonizing the root surface. Received: March 25, 2002 / Accepted: September 27, 2002     

黑杨应答杨生褐盘二孢专化型侵染的基因差异表达

[目的]杨生褐盘二孢的单芽管专化型和多芽管专化型分别引起白杨组和黑杨组(包括青杨组)杨树的褐斑病,其分化机制有待阐明。[方法]本文在专化性互作体系建立的基础上,利用荧光染色标记研究了病菌孢子在专化性寄主侵染过程中的萌发发育情况,并通过RT-qPCR分析了黑杨寄主抗病相关基因在应答两专化型侵染过程中的不同表达。[结果]结果发现多芽管分生孢子在黑杨寄主上能完成发育并成功侵染,单芽管分生孢子也能成功萌发和发育,但不能侵入黑杨寄主;黑杨抗性基因在两专化型侵染发育过程中均能被诱导表达,但在表达时间和表达量上,除基因WRKY89的表达较为一致外,病程相关基因PR5、PR10、NPR1和LAR3在二者间的表达存在差异。[结论]研究结果初步表明病原专化型可能是寄主与病原专性互作的表型,这一认识将有助于进一步探明杨树褐斑病病原专化型形成和分化的机制。     

A Monitoring System for Green Fluorescence Protein Gene-transformed Fusarium oxysporum in Melon Seedlings

Using melon seedlings at the cotyledon stage and genetically marked fungi, a system for monitoring pathogenic and nonpathogenic Fusarium oxysporum was devised in the present study. Protoplasts were prepared from three formae speciales (melonis, radicis-lycopersici and fragariae )of F. oxysporum and transformed with a synthetic gene for green fluorescence protein. Transformants were primarily isolated in the presence of hygromycin B and then screened by the emission of bright green fluorescence. Roots of melon seedlings were inoculated with fluorescing microconidia of these fungi, and fungal infection behavior was traced. Using fluorescence microscopy, we directly observed not only the fungus at the root surface, but also the mycelia elongating in the trachea of roots. Both pathogenic and nonpathogenic fungi germinated and hyphae elongated superficially on the surface of root. Only pathogenic fungi caused root necrosis at the inoculation site. Hyphae grew within the stem to induce constriction or cracking of lower hypocotyls, then causing wilting of the seedlings. Infection behavior of genetically marked pathogenic and nonpathogenic F. oxysporum could be successfully monitored after inoculation of cotyledons of seedlings. Received 6 June 2001/ Accepted in revised form 3 August 2001     

瓜类枯萎病发生机理研究进展

对国内外瓜类抗枯萎病的致病因子及其生理分化、致病机理、抗病机制、抗性遗传、抗性筛选等进行了综述，并对该领域存在的问题以及发展方向进行了讨论．     

Genetic Variation in Melampsora Larici-epitea on Biomass willows Assessed using AFLP

Five pathotypes belonging to formae speciales larici-epitea typica (LET), larici-retusae (LR) and larici-daphnoides (LD) of Melampsora larici-epitea were examined using amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP). Of 213 AFLP markers scored, several were found to be exclusive to different formae speciales. The dendrogram placed the five pathotypes into distinct groups. Within pathotypes, average Nei & Li's similarity coefficients were calculated as 0.71–0.85. The similarities were 0.66–0.72 among the three pathotypes within LET and 0.34–0.44 between pathotypes belonging to different formae speciales. When assessed using the Shannon index, the diversity within locations was estimated as 0.55–0.59, greater than that found within pathotypes (0.24–0.42). The average per-locus diversity was 0.37 among the pathotypes and 0.11 among the locations. When the data from both LET and LR isolates were examined using AMOVA, the majority of the variation (70.85%) was attributed to among pathotypes within location. When only LET types were included, approximately half of the variation was partitioned to among pathotypes within location and the other half to among the isolates within collection. It appears that the degree of differentiation of LET4 on S. × mollissima between Loughgall and Long Ashton sites has decreased markedly since 1992, when it was first detected.     

Distribution of the FoToml gene encoding tomatinase in formae speciales of Fusarium oxysporum and identification of a novel tomatinase from F. oxysporum f. sp. radicis-lycopersici, the causal agent of Fusarium crown and root rot of tomato

The antifungal glycoalkaloid -tomatine accumulates in tomato plants and may protect plants from fungal infection. Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici, the causal agent of vascular wilt of tomato, produces a tomatinase (FoToml) that degrades -tomatine to the nontoxic compounds tetrasaccharide lycotetraose and tomatidine. Induction of tomatinases and the distribution of FoToml homologs were examined among 30 strains belonging to 16 formae speciales of F. oxysporum. Tomatinase activity was found in 27 strains belonging to 15 formae speciales, but FoToml homologs (>98% sequence identity) were detected in only six strains belonging to four formae speciales. To identify tomatinases other than FoToml, -tomatine-inducible proteins of another tomato pathogen F. oxysporum f. sp. radicis-lycopersici were analyzed by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. A protein with a molecular mass of 64kDa accumulated in the -tomatine-induced culture filtrates, and the protein had tomatinase activity, degrading -tomatine to lycotetraose and tomatidine.     

几种瓜类枯萎病菌专化型的AFLP分析

利用AFLP分子标记技术对西瓜、冬瓜、黄瓜和甜瓜4个不同专化型的10个菌株进行了分析,结果表明10对引物对供试菌株扩增出550条带,其中多态性带175条,占总带数的31.8%。对供试菌株的AFLP指纹图谱聚类分析,可将其划分为FOGI、FOGII、FOGIII和FOGIV 4个类群(FOGs),分别为西瓜专化型菌株、冬瓜专化型菌株、黄瓜专化型菌株和甜瓜专化型菌株,聚类结果与菌株的专化型间存在明显的对应关系。     

苦瓜枯萎病菌的鉴定及其遗传多样性分析

 对分离获得的32株苦瓜枯萎病菌菌株进行形态学特征和寄主专化型测定, 结果表明, 测试的苦瓜枯萎病菌株均为尖孢镰刀菌苦瓜专化型 (Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. momordicae), 这些菌株可以侵染苦瓜和瓠瓜幼苗, 但不侵染其他葫芦科瓜类作物。对苦瓜枯萎病菌菌株的rDNA-ITS区 (ITS1、5.8S和ITS2)序列进行扩增测序, 结果显示其序列长度均为456 bp;聚类分析表明测序菌株与镰刀菌属中尖孢镰刀菌不同专化型的菌株聚为一群。利用RAPD标记技术分析苦瓜枯萎病菌的遗传多样性, 结果显示苦瓜枯萎病菌株与其他葫芦科瓜类作物枯萎病菌株间的遗传相似系数范围为0.59~0.99, 当遗传相似系数为0.85时, 供试的48个菌株分成10个类群 (G_1~10)。在RAPD聚类树中所有苦瓜枯萎病菌株聚在一个分支上 (G₁群), 菌株间的遗传相似系数范围为0.92~1.00, 具有较高的遗传相似性, 且菌株的聚群与地理来源存在一定的相关性。     

尖孢镰刀菌磷脂脂肪酸的遗传多样性分析

为明确尖孢镰刀菌Fusarium oxysporum不同专化型菌株的遗传多样性,利用MIDI微生物脂肪酸鉴定系统分析了来源于5个专化型的27株菌株的磷脂脂肪酸种类和含量,并进行了磷脂脂肪酸聚类分析。结果表明,供试尖孢镰刀菌中共检测到9种脂肪酸,在兰氏距离为25.98时分为3个类群,即主要脂肪酸、微量脂肪酸和偶现脂肪酸,其中主要脂肪酸有16:0、18:0、18:1cis9(ω9)和18:2cis9,12/18:0a,含量共占总磷脂脂肪酸的96.41%;微量脂肪酸有14:0、15:0、16:1cis9(ω7)和20:0,偶现脂肪酸仅有17:1(ω11)。不同专化型菌株的主要脂肪酸仅18:2cis9,12/18:0a存在显著差异,微量脂肪酸除15:0外其余3种均有显著差异。聚类分析结果表明,以供试的全部27株菌株聚类时,其磷脂脂肪酸与寄主专化型间无明显相关性,以寄主来源为同科(葫芦科或茄科)的菌株聚类时,其磷脂脂肪酸与寄主专化型间存在着一定的对应关系。