Stagonospora nodorum: from pathology to genomics and host resistance

Annu Rev Phytopathol. 2012:50:23-43. doi: 10.1146/annurev-phyto-081211-173019. Epub 2012 May 1.

Abstract

Stagonospora nodorum is a major necrotrophic pathogen of wheat that causes the diseases S. nodorum leaf and glume blotch. A series of tools and resources, including functional genomics, a genome sequence, proteomics and metabolomics, host-mapping populations, and a worldwide collection of isolates, have enabled the dissection of pathogenicity mechanisms. Metabolic and signaling genes required for pathogenicity have been defined. Interaction with the host is dominated by interplay of fungal effectors that induce necrosis on wheat lines carrying specific sensitivity loci. As such, the pathogen has emerged as a model for the Pleosporales group of pathogens.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Ascomycota / genetics*
  • Ascomycota / pathogenicity*
  • Ascomycota / physiology
  • Disease Resistance / genetics
  • Disease Resistance / immunology
  • Fungal Proteins / genetics
  • Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal
  • Genomics*
  • Host-Pathogen Interactions
  • Metabolomics
  • Plant Diseases / immunology
  • Plant Diseases / microbiology*
  • Plant Leaves / immunology
  • Plant Leaves / microbiology
  • Proteomics
  • Quantitative Trait Loci
  • Signal Transduction
  • Triticum / immunology
  • Triticum / microbiology*
  • Virulence

Substances

  • Fungal Proteins