The Colletotrichum acutatum Species Complex as a Model System to Study Evolution and Host Specialization in Plant Pathogens
Colletotrichum spp. infect a wide diversity of hosts, causing plant diseases on many economically important crops worldwide. The genus contains approximately 189 species organized into at least 11 major phylogenetic lineages, also known as species complexes. The Colletotrichum acutatum species compl...
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| author | Riccardo Baroncelli Pedro Talhinhas Flora Pensec Serenella A. Sukno Gaetan Le Floch Michael R. Thon |
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| description | Colletotrichum spp. infect a wide diversity of hosts, causing plant diseases on many economically important crops worldwide. The genus contains approximately 189 species organized into at least 11 major phylogenetic lineages, also known as species complexes. The Colletotrichum acutatum species complex is a diverse yet relatively closely related group of plant pathogenic fungi within this genus. Within the species complex we find a wide diversity of important traits such as host range and host preference, mode of reproduction and differences in the strategy used to infect their hosts. Research on fungal comparative genomics have attempted to find correlations in these traits and patterns of gene family evolution but such studies typically compare fungi from different genera or even different fungal Orders. The C. acutatum species complex contains most of this diversity within a group of relatively closely related species. This Perspective article presents a review of the current knowledge on C. acutatum phylogeny, biology, and pathology. It also demonstrates the suitability of C. acutatum for the study of gene family evolution on a fine scale to uncover evolutionary events in the genome that are associated with the evolution of phenotypic characters important for host interactions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6a6b305159f44d27a09cc2e5f410a7692022-12-22T02:30:41ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Microbiology1664-302X2017-10-01810.3389/fmicb.2017.02001295676The Colletotrichum acutatum Species Complex as a Model System to Study Evolution and Host Specialization in Plant PathogensRiccardo Baroncelli0Pedro Talhinhas1Flora Pensec2Serenella A. Sukno3Gaetan Le Floch4Michael R. Thon5Laboratoire Universitaire de Biodiversité et Écologie Microbienne, ESIAB, Université de Brest, Plouzané, FranceLinking Landscape, Environment, Agriculture and Food, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, PortugalLaboratoire Universitaire de Biodiversité et Écologie Microbienne, ESIAB, Université de Brest, Plouzané, FranceInstituto Hispano-Luso de Investigaciones Agrarias, Department of Microbiology and Genetics, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, SpainLaboratoire Universitaire de Biodiversité et Écologie Microbienne, ESIAB, Université de Brest, Plouzané, FranceInstituto Hispano-Luso de Investigaciones Agrarias, Department of Microbiology and Genetics, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, SpainColletotrichum spp. infect a wide diversity of hosts, causing plant diseases on many economically important crops worldwide. The genus contains approximately 189 species organized into at least 11 major phylogenetic lineages, also known as species complexes. The Colletotrichum acutatum species complex is a diverse yet relatively closely related group of plant pathogenic fungi within this genus. Within the species complex we find a wide diversity of important traits such as host range and host preference, mode of reproduction and differences in the strategy used to infect their hosts. Research on fungal comparative genomics have attempted to find correlations in these traits and patterns of gene family evolution but such studies typically compare fungi from different genera or even different fungal Orders. The C. acutatum species complex contains most of this diversity within a group of relatively closely related species. This Perspective article presents a review of the current knowledge on C. acutatum phylogeny, biology, and pathology. It also demonstrates the suitability of C. acutatum for the study of gene family evolution on a fine scale to uncover evolutionary events in the genome that are associated with the evolution of phenotypic characters important for host interactions.http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2017.02001/fullColletotrichum acutatumevolutionfungal lifestylepathogenicityanthracnose |
| spellingShingle | Riccardo Baroncelli Pedro Talhinhas Flora Pensec Serenella A. Sukno Gaetan Le Floch Michael R. Thon The Colletotrichum acutatum Species Complex as a Model System to Study Evolution and Host Specialization in Plant Pathogens Frontiers in Microbiology Colletotrichum acutatum evolution fungal lifestyle pathogenicity anthracnose |
| title | The Colletotrichum acutatum Species Complex as a Model System to Study Evolution and Host Specialization in Plant Pathogens |
| title_full | The Colletotrichum acutatum Species Complex as a Model System to Study Evolution and Host Specialization in Plant Pathogens |
| title_fullStr | The Colletotrichum acutatum Species Complex as a Model System to Study Evolution and Host Specialization in Plant Pathogens |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Colletotrichum acutatum Species Complex as a Model System to Study Evolution and Host Specialization in Plant Pathogens |
| title_short | The Colletotrichum acutatum Species Complex as a Model System to Study Evolution and Host Specialization in Plant Pathogens |
| title_sort | colletotrichum acutatum species complex as a model system to study evolution and host specialization in plant pathogens |
| topic | Colletotrichum acutatum evolution fungal lifestyle pathogenicity anthracnose |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2017.02001/full |
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