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A pair of effectors encoded on a conditionally dispensable chromosome of Fusarium oxysporum suppress host-specific immunity

Communications Biology, ISSN: 2399-3642, Vol: 4, Issue: 1, Page: 707
2021
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Many plant pathogenic fungi contain conditionally dispensable (CD) chromosomes that are associated with virulence, but not growth in vitro. Virulence-associated CD chromosomes carry genes encoding effectors and/or host-specific toxin biosynthesis enzymes that may contribute to determining host specificity. Fusarium oxysporum causes devastating diseases of more than 100 plant species. Among a large number of host-specific forms, F. oxysporum f. sp. conglutinans (Focn) can infect Brassicaceae plants including Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) and cabbage. Here we show that Focn has multiple CD chromosomes. We identified specific CD chromosomes that are required for virulence on Arabidopsis, cabbage, or both, and describe a pair of effectors encoded on one of the CD chromosomes that is required for suppression of Arabidopsis-specific phytoalexin-based immunity. The effector pair is highly conserved in F. oxysporum isolates capable of infecting Arabidopsis, but not of other plants. This study provides insight into how host specificity of F. oxysporum may be determined by a pair of effector genes on a transmissible CD chromosome.

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Ayukawa, Yu; Asai, Shuta; Gan, Pamela; Tsushima, Ayako; Ichihashi, Yasunori; Shibata, Arisa; Komatsu, Ken; Houterman, Petra M; Rep, Martijn; Shirasu, Ken; Arie, Tsutomu

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Medicine; Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology; Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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