Promising perspectives for detection, identification, and quantification of plant pathogenic fungi and oomycetes through targeting mitochondrial DNA

T Kulik, K Bilska, M Żelechowski - International Journal of Molecular …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Fungi and oomycetes encompass many pathogens affecting crops worldwide. Their effective
control requires screening pathogens across the local and international trade networks …

Signatures of host specialization and a recent transposable element burst in the dynamic one-speed genome of the fungal barley powdery mildew pathogen

L Frantzeskakis, B Kracher, S Kusch… - BMC genomics, 2018 - Springer
Background Powdery mildews are biotrophic pathogenic fungi infecting a number of
economically important plants. The grass powdery mildew, Blumeria graminis, has become …

The coevolution of fungal mitochondrial introns and their homing endonucleases (GIY-YIG and LAGLIDADG)

AH Megarioti, VN Kouvelis - Genome biology and evolution, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Fungal mitochondrial (mt) genomes exhibit great diversity in size which is partially attributed
to their variable intergenic regions and most importantly to the inclusion of introns within …

The evolution of mitochondrial genomes in fungi

VN Kouvelis, AM Kortsinoglou, TY James - Evolution of Fungi and Fungal …, 2023 - Springer
Fungal mitochondrial (mt) genomes (mitogenomes) are diverse and highly variable both at
the inter-and intra-species level. While they contain a certain set of conserved genes …

The complete mitochondrial genomes of two model ectomycorrhizal fungi (Laccaria): features, intron dynamics and phylogenetic implications

Q Li, L Yang, D Xiang, Y Wan, Q Wu, W Huang… - International journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Laccaria amethystine and L. bicolor have served as model species for studying the life
history and genetics of ectomycorrhizal fungi. However, the characterizations and variations …

The mitochondrial genome of Morchella importuna (272.2 kb) is the largest among fungi and contains numerous introns, mitochondrial non-conserved open reading …

W Liu, Y Cai, Q Zhang, L Chen, F Shu, X Ma… - International journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
The complete mitochondrial genome of Morchella importuna, the famous edible and
medicinal mushroom, was assembled as a 272,238 bp single circular dsDNA. As the largest …

Comparison of the Mitochondrial Genome Sequences of Six Annulohypoxylon stygium Isolates Suggests Short Fragment Insertions as a Potential Factor Leading to …

Y Deng, T Hsiang, S Li, L Lin, Q Wang… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is a core non-nuclear genetic material found in all eukaryotic
organisms, the size of which varies extensively in the eumycota, even within species. In this …

Subchromosome-Scale Nuclear and Complete Mitochondrial Genome Characteristics of Morchella crassipes

W Liu, Y Cai, Q Zhang, F Shu, L Chen, X Ma… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Morchella crassipes (Vent.) Pers., a typical yellow morel species with high economic value,
is mainly distributed in the low altitude plains of Eurasia. However, rare research has been …

Comparative Mitochondrial Genome Analysis of Two Ectomycorrhizal Fungi (Rhizopogon) Reveals Dynamic Changes of Intron and Phylogenetic Relationships of the …

Q Li, Y Ren, X Shi, L Peng, J Zhao, Y Song… - International Journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
In the present study, we assembled and compared two mitogenomes from the Rhizopogon
genus. The two mitogenomes of R. salebrosus and R. vinicolor comprised circular DNA …

Genome Sequence of the Chestnut Blight Fungus Cryphonectria parasitica EP155: A Fundamental Resource for an Archetypical Invasive Plant Pathogen

JA Crouch, A Dawe, A Aerts, K Barry… - …, 2020 - Am Phytopath Society
Cryphonectria parasitica is the causal agent of chestnut blight, a fungal disease that almost
entirely eliminated mature American chestnut from North America over a 50-year period …