Molecular Plant Pathology - 12 (4-9), 2011

Molecular Plant Pathology - 12 (4), 2011


Contents:

Pathogen profiles


Mycosphaerella fijiensis, the black leaf streak pathogen of banana: progress towards understanding pathogen biology and detection, disease development, and the challenges of control (pages 307–328)

ALICE C. L. CHURCHILL


Burkholderia glumae: next major pathogen of rice? (pages 329–339)

JONG HYUN HAM, REBECCA A. MELANSON and MILTON C. RUSH


Original articles


The beneficial effect of Trichoderma spp. on tomato is modulated by the plant genotype (pages 341–354)

MARINA TUCCI, MICHELINA RUOCCO, LUIGI DE MASI, MONICA DE PALMA and MATTEO LORITO


Expression of Arabidopsis pathogenesis-related genes during nematode infection (pages 355–364)

NOUREDDINE HAMAMOUCH, CHUNYING LI, PIL JOON SEO, CHUNG-MO PARK and ERIC L. DAVIS


Modification of recombinant maize ChitA chitinase by fungal chitinase-modifying proteins (pages 365–372)

TODD A. NAUMANN


An HrpB-dependent but type III-independent extracellular aspartic protease is a virulence factor of Ralstonia solanacearum (pages 373–380)

YEONHWA JEONG, HOON CHEONG, OKHEE CHOI, JUNG KYU KIM, YONGSUNG KANG, JINWOO KIM, SEUNGDON LEE, SERRY KOH, JAE SUN MOON and INGYU HWANG


The wxacO gene of Xanthomonas citri ssp. citri encodes a protein with a role in lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis, biofilm formation, stress tolerance and virulence (pages 381–396)

JINYUN LI and NIAN WANG


Organ identity and environmental conditions determine the effectiveness of nonhost resistance in the interaction between Arabidopsis thaliana and Magnaporthe oryzae (pages 397–402)

CHRISTINE SCHREIBER, ALAN J. SLUSARENKO and ULRICH SCHAFFRATH


Review


The coat protein leads the way: an update on basic and applied studies with the Brome mosaic virus coat protein (pages 403–412)

C. CHENG KAO, PENG NI, MASARAPU HEMA, XINLEI HUANG and BOGDAN DRAGNEA


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Molecular Plant Pathology - 12 (5), 2011




Contents:

Pathogen profile update


Mycosphaerella graminicola: from genomics to disease control (pages 413–424)

ELIZABETH S. ORTON, SIAN DELLER and JAMES K. M. BROWN


Original articles


Involvement of a putative response regulator FgRrg-1 in osmotic stress response, fungicide resistance and virulence in Fusarium graminearum (pages 425–436)

JINHUA JIANG, YINGZI YUN, JING FU, WON-BO SHIM and ZHONGHUA MA


Long-term protection against tobacco mosaic virus induced by the marine alga oligo-sulphated-galactan Poly-Ga in tobacco plants (pages 437–447)

JEANNETTE VERA, JORGE CASTRO, ALBERTO GONZÁLEZ, HERNA BARRIENTOS, BETTY MATSUHIRO, PATRICIO ARCE, GUSTAVO ZUNIGA and ALEJANDRA MOENNE


Inactivation of Snt2, a BAH/PHD-containing transcription factor, impairs pathogenicity and increases autophagosome abundance in Fusarium oxysporum (pages 449–461)

YOULIA DENISOV, STANLEY FREEMAN and ODED YARDEN


Identification of differentially expressed genes in a resistant versus a susceptible blueberry cultivar after infection by Colletotrichum acutatum (pages 463–477)

TIMOTHY D. MILES, BRAD DAY and ANNEMIEK C. SCHILDER


Regulators of G-protein signalling in Fusarium verticillioides mediate differential host–pathogen responses on nonviable versus viable maize kernels (pages 479–491)

MALA MUKHERJEE, JUNG-EUN KIM, YONG-SOON PARK, MICHAEL V. KOLOMIETS and WON-BO SHIM


Identification of serine/threonine kinase and nucleotide-binding site–leucine-rich repeat (NBS-LRR) genes in the fire blight resistance quantitative trait locus of apple cultivar ‘Evereste’ (pages 493–505)

GABRIELLA PARRAVICINI, CESARE GESSLER, CAROLINE DENANCÉ, PAULINE LASSERRE-ZUBER, EMILIE VERGNE, MARIE-NOËLLE BRISSET, ANDREA PATOCCHI, CHARLES-ERIC DUREL and GIOVANNI A. L. BROGGINI


Review


Fungal pathogenicity genes in the age of ‘omics’ (pages 507–514)

ANGELA P. VAN DE WOUW and BARBARA J. HOWLETT


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Molecular Plant Pathology - 12 (6), 2011




Contents:

Pathogen profile


Secrets of the subterranean pathosystem of Armillaria (pages 515–534)

KENDRA BAUMGARTNER, MARTIN P. A. COETZEE and DIRK HOFFMEISTER


Original articles


Narrowing down the apricot Plum pox virus resistance locus and comparative analysis with the peach genome syntenic region (pages 535–547)

ELSA MARÍA VERA RUIZ, JOSÉ MIGUEL SORIANO, CARLOS ROMERO, TETYANA ZHEBENTYAYEVA, JAVIER TEROL, ELENA ZURIAGA, GERARDO LLÁCER, ALBERT GLENN ABBOTT and MARÍA LUISA BADENES


The FRP1 F-box gene has different functions in sexuality, pathogenicity and metabolism in three fungal pathogens (pages 548–563)

WILFRIED JONKERS, JAN A. L. VAN KAN, PATRICK TIJM, YIN-WON LEE, PAUL TUDZYNSKI, MARTIJN REP and CAROLINE B. MICHIELSE


The Botrytis cinerea phytotoxin botcinic acid requires two polyketide synthases for production and has a redundant role in virulence with botrydial (pages 564–579)

BÉRENGERE DALMAIS, JULIA SCHUMACHER, JAVIER MORAGA, PASCAL LE PECHEUR, BETTINA TUDZYNSKI, ISIDRO GONZALEZ COLLADO and MURIEL VIAUD


Genome sequencing and comparative analysis of the carrot bacterial blight pathogen, Xanthomonas hortorum pv. carotae M081, for insights into pathogenicity and applications in molecular diagnostics (pages 580–594)

JEFFREY A. KIMBREL, SCOTT A. GIVAN, TODD N. TEMPLE, KENNETH B. JOHNSON and JEFF H. CHANG


Satellite RNA reduces expression of the 2b suppressor protein resulting in the attenuation of symptoms caused by Cucumber mosaic virus infection (pages 595–605)

WEI-NA HOU, CHENG-GUO DUAN, RONG-XIANG FANG, XIAO-YANG ZHOU and HUI-SHAN GUO


Flux of nitric oxide between the necrotrophic pathogen Botrytis cinerea and the host plant (pages 606–616)

JUAN L. TURRION-GOMEZ and ERNESTO P. BENITO


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Molecular Plant Pathology - 12 (7), 2011




Contents:

Pathogen profiles


Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola: from ‘has bean’ to supermodel (pages 617–627)

DAWN L. ARNOLD, HELEN C. LOVELL, ROBERT W. JACKSON and JOHN W. MANSFIELD


Pantoea stewartii subsp. stewartii: lessons learned from a xylem-dwelling pathogen of sweet corn (pages 628–637)

M. CAROLINE ROPER


Original articles


Invertases involved in the development of the parasitic plant Phelipanche ramosa: characterization of the dominant soluble acid isoform, PrSAI1 (pages 638–652)

RIDA DRAIE, THOMAS PÉRON, JEAN-BERNARD POUVREAU, CHRISTOPHE VÉRONÉSI, SANDRINE JÉGOU, PHILIPPE DELAVAULT, SÉVERINE THOIRON and PHILIPPE SIMIER


The SLT2 mitogen-activated protein kinase-mediated signalling pathway governs conidiation, morphogenesis, fungal virulence and production of toxin and melanin in the tangerine pathotype of Alternaria alternata (pages 653–665)

JONAR INGAN YAGO, CHING-HSUAN LIN and KUANG-REN CHUNG


Garlic virus X 11-kDa protein granules move within the cytoplasm and traffic a host protein normally found in the nucleolus (pages 666–676)

YUWEN LU, FEI YAN, WEI GUO, HONGYING ZHENG, LIN LIN, JIEJUN PENG, MICHAEL J. ADAMS and JIANPING CHEN


RNAi-mediated resistance to Cassava brown streak Uganda virus in transgenic cassava (pages 677–687)

JITENDER S. YADAV, EMMANUEL OGWOK, HENRY WAGABA, BASAVAPRABHU L. PATIL, BASAVARAJ BAGEWADI, TITUS ALICAI, ELIANA GAITAN-SOLIS, NIGEL J. TAYLOR and CLAUDE M. FAUQUET


Mapping studies of the Peach latent mosaic viroid reveal novel structural features (pages 688–701)

AUDREY DUBÉ, FRANÇOIS BOLDUC, MARTIN BISAILLON and JEAN-PIERRE PERREAULT


Physical association of pattern-triggered immunity (PTI) and effector-triggered immunity (ETI) immune receptors in Arabidopsis (pages 702–708)

YIPING QI, KENICHI TSUDA, JANE GLAZEBROOK and FUMIAKI KATAGIRI


Degeneration of hrpZ gene in Pseudomonas syringae pv. tabaci to evade tobacco defence: an arms race between tobacco and its bacterial pathogen (pages 709–714)

KAZUHIKO TSUNEMI, FUMIKO TAGUCHI, MIZURI MARUTANI, MEGUMI WATANABE-SUGIMOTO, YOSHISHIGE INAGAKI, KAZUHIRO TOYODA, TOMONORI SHIRAISHI and YUKI ICHINOSE


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Molecular Plant Pathology - 12 (8), 2011




Contents:

Original articles


Comparative analysis of the XopD type III secretion (T3S) effector family in plant pathogenic bacteria (pages 715–730)

JUNG-GUN KIM, KYLE W. TAYLOR and MARY BETH MUDGETT


Type III secretion-dependent host defence elicitation and type III secretion-independent growth within leaves by Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris (pages 731–745)

WENXIAN SUN, LIJUAN LIU and ANDREW F. BENT


Negative regulation of defence signalling pathways by the EDR1 protein kinase (pages 746–758)

KATY M. CHRISTIANSEN, YANGNAN GU, NATALIE RODIBAUGH and ROGER W. INNES


Altered trichothecene biosynthesis in TRI6-silenced transformants of Fusarium culmorum influences the severity of crown and foot rot on durum wheat seedlings (pages 759–771)

BARBARA SCHERM, MARCELLA ORRU, VIRGILIO BALMAS, FRANCESCA SPANU, EMANUELA AZARA, GIOVANNA DELOGU, THOMAS M. HAMMOND, NANCY P. KELLER and QUIRICO MIGHELI


Evidence for involvement of Dicer-like, Argonaute and histone deacetylase proteins in gene silencing in Phytophthora infestans (pages 772–785)

RAMESH R. VETUKURI, ANNA O. AVROVA, LAURA J. GRENVILLE-BRIGGS, PIETER VAN WEST, FREDRIK SÖDERBOM, EUGENE I. SAVENKOV, STEPHEN C. WHISSON and CHRISTINA DIXELIUS


Expression of coordinately regulated defence response genes and analysis of their role in disease resistance in Medicago truncatula (pages 786–798)

DEBORAH A. SAMAC, SILVIA PENUELA, JUDY A. SCHNURR, E. NICOLE HUNT, DAWN FOSTER-HARTNETT, KATHRYN A. VANDENBOSCH and J. STEPHEN GANTT


Amino acid changes in P3, and not the overlapping pipo-encoded protein, determine virulence of Soybean mosaic virus on functionally immune Rsv1-genotype soybean (pages 799–807)

R-H. WEN, M. A. SAGHAI MAROOF and M. R. HAJIMORAD


p2 of Rice stripe virus (RSV) interacts with OsSGS3 and is a silencing suppressor (pages 808–814)

ZHENGUO DU, DONGLAI XIAO, JIANGUO WU, DONGSHENG JIA, ZHENGJIE YUAN, YING LIU, LIUYANG HU, ZHAO HAN, TAIYUN WEI, QIYING LIN, ZUJIAN WU and LIANHUI XIE


Review


Applications of flow cytometry in plant pathology for genome size determination, detection and physiological status (pages 815–828)

LIESBET D'HONDT, MONICA HÖFTE, ERIK VAN BOCKSTAELE and LEEN LEUS


Micro-Review


Application of high-throughput genome sequencing to intrapathovar variation in Pseudomonas syringae (pages 829–838)

DAVID J. STUDHOLME


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Molecular Plant Pathology - 12 (9), 2011




Contents:

Original articles


The biocontrol bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf29Arp strain affects the pathogenesis-related gene expression of the take-all fungus Gaeumannomyces graminis var. tritici on wheat roots (pages 839–854)

STÉPHANIE DAVAL, LIONEL LEBRETON, KÉVIN GAZENGEL, MORGANE BOUTIN, ANNE-YVONNE GUILLERM-ERCKELBOUDT and ALAIN SARNIGUET


Arabidopsis thaliana cdd1 mutant uncouples the constitutive activation of salicylic acid signalling from growth defects (pages 855–865)

SWADHIN SWAIN, SHWETA ROY, JYOTI SHAH, SASKIA VAN WEES, CORNÉ M. PIETERSE and ASHIS K. NANDI


Durable broad-spectrum powdery mildew resistance in pea er1 plants is conferred by natural loss-of-function mutations in PsMLO1 (pages 866–878)

MATT HUMPHRY, ANJA REINSTÄDLER, SERGEY IVANOV, TON BISSELING and RALPH PANSTRUGA


Transcriptomic profiling of citrus fruit peel tissues reveals fundamental effects of phenylpropanoids and ethylene on induced resistance (pages 879–897)

ANA-ROSA BALLESTER, M. TERESA LAFUENTE, JAVIER FORMENT, JOSÉ GADEA, RIC C. H. DE VOS, ARNAUD G. BOVY and LUIS GONZÁLEZ-CANDELAS


Ectopic expression of the p23 silencing suppressor of Citrus tristeza virus differentially modifies viral accumulation and tropism in two transgenic woody hosts (pages 898–910)

CARMEN FAGOAGA, GIOVANNI PENSABENE-BELLAVIA, PEDRO MORENO, LUÍS NAVARRO, RICARDO FLORES and LEANDRO PENA


Genetic background matters: a plant–virus gene-for-gene interaction is strongly influenced by genetic contexts (pages 911–920)

JOSSELIN MONTARRY, JULIETTE DOUMAYROU, VINCENT SIMON and BENOIT MOURY


Targets of selection in a disease resistance network in wild tomatoes (pages 921–927)

LAURA E. ROSE, LUKASZ GRZESKOWIAK (ŁUKASZ GRZEŚKOWIAK), ANJA C. HÖRGER, MARTIN GROTH and WOLFGANG STEPHAN


Reviews


The YopJ superfamily in plant-associated bacteria (pages 928–937)

JENNIFER D. LEWIS, AMY LEE, WENBO MA, HUANBIN ZHOU, DAVID S. GUTTMAN and DARRELL DESVEAUX


Top 10 plant viruses in molecular plant pathology (pages 938–954)

KAREN-BETH G. SCHOLTHOF, SCOTT ADKINS, HENRYK CZOSNEK, PETER PALUKAITIS, EMMANUEL JACQUOT, THOMAS HOHN, BARBARA HOHN, KEITH SAUNDERS, THIERRY CANDRESSE, PAUL AHLQUIST, CYNTHIA HEMENWAY and GARY D. FOSTER


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