Monosporascus root rot/vine decline : a study of double-stranded (DS) RNA and its role in the pathogenesis of Monosporascus cannonballus on muskmelon /

449+.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Batten, Jeffrey Samuel, 1970-
Format: Thesis eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] ; 1997.
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Summary:449+.
accumulation) and hypovirulence (on muskmelon) in the fungus,
aggressive isolate (Az9O-33-) in controlled pathogenicity
and Tx93-314+'- caused less stunting than Az9O-33- and were
Aniline blue staining of fungal mycelia in muskmelon
associated with hypovirulence and/or culture degeneration.
Ca9l-17 16+, Tx93-529+, and Tx93-314+/-. In contrast,
Ca9l-17"+, Tx93-529+, and Tx93-314+'-) were examined in
clones from the dsRNAs in the hypovirulent isolate, Tx93-
cloning dsRNAs in M. cannonhallus will be used to derive CDNA
degeneration (slow growth, reduced sporulation, and pigment
determine if a specific set of dsRNA fragments were
Double-strand (ds) RNA has been shown to induce culture
generated from Tx93-529+. After introducing additional
growth assays and accumulated a yellow to brown pigment.
hypovirulent isolate was added to the inoculum mixture at a
hypovirulent isolates (Tx93-449+, Ca9l-17 95+, and Tx9l-18@)
Initially, only fungal ribosomal RNA-CDNA clones were
isolate alone, suggesting that biocontrol of D might be
isolate Tx93449 + was consistently hypovirulent and Az9O-33-
isolates had a culture phenotype similar to that of wildtype
isolates. In contrast, isolate Tx93-449+ grew significantly
microplot trial suggest that virulence was reduced when the
Monosporascus cannonballus. Five M cannonballus isolates
other known dsRNA mycoviruses. The techniques developed for
partially 17 , Tx93 hypovirulent. In addition, these
pathogenicity data from seven trials, isolates Ca9l96+ -529+,
possible. Two isolates (Tx93-529+ and Ca9l-17 96+) were
purification techniques, nine CDNA clones (400 bp to 1500 bp)
ratio 1: IO (virulent:hypovirulent). At this ratio, plants
repeated greenhouse pathogenicity trials from 1995 to 1996 to
seedlings infected with Tx93-449+ revealed that this isolate
slower (LSD, P=0.05) than all other isolates in radial
tests. Results from two greenhouse trials and one field
There was some variation in virulence levels for isolates
These clones are currently being sequenced and compared with
tissue compared to the virulent isolate, Az9O-33-. Three
took three times longer to penetrate and colonized root
used to make a CDNA library derived from their dsRNAs.
was consistently virulent on muskmelon. Pooling greenhouse
were less stunted than those inoculated with the virulent
were obtained from the dsRNAs associated with Ca9l-17 96+ .
were tested for their ability to affect the virulence of an
with different dsRNA banding patterns, (Az9O-33-, Tx93-449+,
Item Description:"Major subject: Plant Pathology".
Vita.
Physical Description:ix, 76 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm.
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Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references: pages 68-75.