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MICROBIOLOGICAL RESEARCH
Volume 160, Issue 4, Pages 389-397Publisher
ELSEVIER GMBH
DOI: 10.1016/j.micres.2005.03.003
Keywords
anthracnose; fungal development; fungal pathogenicity; Glomerella
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A cDNA corresponding to a transcript induced in culture by N starvation, was identified in Colletotrichum gloeosporioides by a differential hybridisation strategy. The cDNA comprised 905 bp and predicted a 215 aa protein; the gene encoding the cDNA was termed CgDN24. No function for CgDN24 could be predicted by database homology searches using the cDNA sequence and no homologues were found in the sequenced fungal genomes. Transcripts of CgDN24 were detected in infected leaves of Stylosanthes guianensis at stages of infection that corresponded with symptom development. The CgDN24 gene was disrupted by homologous recombination and this led to reduced radial growth rates and the production of hyphae with a hyperbranching phenotype. Normal sporutation was observed, and following conidia inoculation of S. guianensis, normal disease development was obtained. These results demonstrate that CgDN24 is necessary for normal hyphal development in axenic culture but dispensable for phytopathogenicity. (c) 2005 Elsevier GmbH. Alt rights reserved.
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