Genome size variation in the pine fusiform rust pathogen Cronartium quercuum f.sp. fusiforme as determined by flow cytometry

LITERATURE CITED

• Almeida AJ, Matute DR, Carmona JA, Martins M, Torres I, McEwen JG, Restrepo A, Leão C, Ludovico P, Rodrigues F. 2007. Genome size and ploidy of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis reveals a haploid DNA content: flow cytometry and GP43 sequence analysis. Fung Genet Biol 44:25–31.
   Google Scholar
• Anderson RL, McClure JP, Cost N, Uhler RJ. 1986. Estimating fusiform rust losses in five southeast states. South J Appl For 10:237–240.
   Google Scholar
• Bennett MD, Leitch IJ, Price HJ, Johnston JS. 2003. Comparisons with Caenorhabditis (~100 Mb) and Drosophila (~175 Mb) using flow cytometry show genome size in Arabidopsis to be ~157 Mb and thus ~25% larger than the Arabidopsis Genome Initiative estimate of ~125 Mb. Ann Bot 91:547–557.
   Google Scholar
• Bridgwater F, Kubisiak T, Byram T, McKeand S. 2005. Risk assessment with current deployment strategies for fusiform rust-resistant loblolly and slash pines. South J Appl For 29:80–87.
   Google Scholar
• Burdine CS, Kubisiak TL, Johnson GN, Nelson CD. 2007. Fifty-two polymorphic microsatellite loci in the rust fungus, Cronartium quercuum f. sp. fusiforme. Mol Ecol Notes 7:1005–1008.
   Google Scholar
• Byram TD, Miller LG, Raley EM. 2006. 54th Progress Report of the Western Gulf Forest Tree Improvement Program. College Station: Texas A&M Univ Press. p 1–28.
   Google Scholar
• Carr J, Shearer G. 1998. Genome size, complexity, and ploidy of the pathogenic fungus Histoplasma capsulatum. J Bacteriol 180:6697–6703.
   Google Scholar
• Doležel J, Greilhuber J, Suda J. 2007. Estimation of nuclear DNA content in plants using flow cytometry. Nature Protocols 2:2233–2244.
   Google Scholar
• Dvorak JA, Whelan WL, McDaniel JP, Gibson CC, Kwon-Chung KJ. 1987. Flow cytometric analysis of the DNA synthetic cycle of Candida species. Infect Immun 55: 1490–1497.
   Google Scholar
• Eilam T, Bushnell WR, Anikster Y. 1994. Relative nuclear DNA content of rust fungi estimated by flow cytometry of propidium iodide-stained pycniospores. Phytopathology 84:728–735.
   Google Scholar
• Flor HH. 1971. Current status of the gene-for-gene concept. Annu Rev Phytopathol 9:275–276.
   Google Scholar
• Goffeau A, Barrell BG, Bussey H, Davis RW, Dujon B, Feldmann H, Galibert F, Hoheisel JD, Jacq C, Johnston M, Louis EJ, Mewes HW, Murakami Y, Philippsen P, Tettelin H, Oliver SG. 1996. Life with 6000 genes. Science 274:546–567.
   Google Scholar
• Gourmet C, Gray LE, Rayburn AL. 1997. Flow cytometric analysis of conidia of fungi isolated from soybean vascular tissue. J Phytopathol 145:405–408.
   Google Scholar
• Gregory TR, Nicol JA, Tamm H, Kullman B, Kullman K, Leitch IJ, Murray BG, Kapraun DF, Greilhuber J, Bennett MD. 2007. Eukaryotic genome size databases. Nucl Acids Res 35:D332–D338.
   Google Scholar
• Greilhuber J. 2007. Cytochemistry and C-values: the less well known world of nuclear DNA amounts. Ann Bot (London) 6:791–804.
   Google Scholar
• Hirij M, Sanders IR. 2004. The arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Glomus intraradices is haploid and has a small genome size in the lower limit of eukaryotes. Fung Genet Biol 41:253–261.
   Google Scholar
• Jordan AP. 1997. Fusiform rust disease resistance and genomic mapping in loblolly pine [Master’s thesis]. Raleigh: North Carolina State University. 105 p.
   Google Scholar
• Kim M-S, Klopfenstein NB, McDonald GI, Arumuganathan K, Vidaver AK. 2000. Characterization of North American Armillaria species by nuclear DNA content and RFLP analysis. Mycologia 92:874–883.
   Google Scholar
• Kron P, Suda J, Husband BC. 2007. Applications of flow cytometry to evolutionary and population biology. Annu Rev Ecol Evol Syst 38:847–876.
   Google Scholar
• Kubisiak TL, Roberds JH, Spaine PC, Doudrick RL. 2004. Microsatellite DNA suggests regional structure in the fusiform rust fungus Cronartium quercuum f. sp. fusiforme. Heredity 92:41–50.
   Google Scholar
• Kuhlman EG, Matthews FR. 1993. Variation in virulence among single-aeciospore isolates from single-gall isolates of Cronartium quercuum f. sp. fusiforme. Can J For Res 23:67–71.
   Google Scholar
• Kullman B. 2000. Application of flow cytometry for the measurement of nuclear DNA content in fungi. Folia Cryptog Estonica Fasc 36:31–46.
   Google Scholar
• Lemke PA, Kugelman B, Morimoto H, Jacobs EC, Ellison JR. 1978. Fluorescent staining of fungal nuclei with a benzimidazol derivative. J Cell Sci 29:77–84.
   Google Scholar
• Matthews FR, Rowan J. 1972. An improved method for large-scale inoculations of pine and oak with Cronartium fusiforme. Plant Dis Rep 56:931–934.
   Google Scholar
• Mims CW, Doudrick RL. 1996. Ultrastructure of spermatia and spermatium ontogeny in the rust fungus Cronartium quercuum f. sp. fusiforme. Can J Bot 74:1050–1057.
   Google Scholar
• Nelson CD, Kubisiak TL, Amerson HV. 2010. Unravelling and managing fusiform rust disease: a model approach for coevolved forest tree pathosystems. For Pathol 40: 67–72.
   Google Scholar
• O’Sullivan D, Tosi P, Creusot F, Cooke M, Phan T-H, Dron M, Langin T. 1998. Variation in genome organisation of the plant pathogenic fungus Colletotrichum lindemuthianum. Curr Genet 33:291–298.
   Google Scholar
• Rasch EM, Barr HJ, Rasch RW. 1971. The DNA content of sperm of Drosophila melanogaster. Chromosoma 33:1–18.
   Google Scholar
• Stöver AG, Witek-Janusek L, Mathews HL. 1998. A method for flow cytometric analysis of Candida albicans DNA. J Microbiol Methods 33:191–196.
   Google Scholar
• Tiersch TR, Chandler RW, Wachtel SS, Elias S. 1989. Reference standards for flow cytometry and application in comparative studies of nuclear DNA content. Cytometry 10:706–710.
   Google Scholar
• Wilcox PL, Amerson HV, Kuhlman EG, Lui B-H, O’Malley DM, Sederoff RR. 1996. Detection of a major gene for resistance to fusiform rust disease in loblolly pine by genomic mapping. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 93:3859–3864.
   Google Scholar
• Willetts HJ. 1997. Morphology, development and evolution of stromata/sclerotia and macroconidia of the Sclerotiniaceae. Mycol Res 101:939–952.
   Google Scholar
• Yeater KM, Grau CR, Rayburn AL. 2002. Flow cytometric analysis of Phialophora gregata isolated from soybean plants resistant and susceptible to brown stem rot. J Phytopathology 150:258–262.
   Google Scholar
• Zolan ME. 1995. Chromosome-length polymorphisms in fungi. Microbiol Rev 59:686–698.
   Google Scholar