Differential effect of environmental conditions on the growth and regulation of the fumonisin biosynthetic gene FUM1 in the maize pathogens and fumonisin producers Fusarium verticillioides and Fusarium proliferatum
| dc.contributor.author | Marin, P. | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Magan, Naresh | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Vazquez, C. | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Gonzalez-Jaen, M. T. | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-04-15T23:06:30Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2011-04-15T23:06:30Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2010-08-31T00:00:00Z | - |
| dc.description.abstract | The effects of ecophysiological factors, temperature and solute potential, on both the growth and the regulation of the fumonisin biosynthetic FUM1 gene were studied and compared in one isolate each of the two closely related fumonisin- producing and maize pathogens Fusarium verticillioides and Fusarium proliferatum. The effect of solute potential and temperature was examined on in vitro mycelia growth and on the expression of the FUM1 gene, quantified by species-specific real-time reverse transcriptase-PCR assays. Although both isolates showed similar two-dimensional profiles of growth, for F. verticillioides, optimal growth conditions were maintained at higher temperatures and lower solute potential values. FUM1 gene expression was markedly induced at 20 degrees C in both isolates, under suboptimal conditions for growth; however, their expression patterns differed in relation to solute potential. Whereas FUM1 expression was induced in response to increasing water stress in the isolate of F. verticillioides, the F. proliferatum one showed a stable expression pattern regardless of water potential conditions. These results suggest a differential regulation of fumonisin biosynthesis in these isolates of the two species that might be related to their different host range, and play an ecological role. Additionally, environmental conditions leading to water stress (drought) might result in increased risk of fumonisin contamination of maize caused by F. verticillioides. | en_UK |
| dc.identifier.citation | Marin P, Magan N, Vazquez C, Gonzalez-Jaen MT, Differential effect of environmental conditions on the growth and regulation of the fumonisin biosynthetic gene FUM1 in the maize pathogens and fumonisin producers Fusarium verticillioides and Fusarium proliferatum, Fems Microbiology Ecology, Volume 73, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 303-311. | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0168-6496 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-6941.2010.00894.x | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/5205 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_UK | en_UK |
| dc.publisher | Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | en_UK |
| dc.rights | The definitive version is available at www3.interscience.wiley.com | |
| dc.subject | Fusarium verticillioides Fusarium proliferatum ecophysiology fumonisins FUM1 gene growth deoxynivalenol production pcr assay aspergillus expression moniliforme mycotoxins strains wheat graminearum aflatoxin | en_UK |
| dc.title | Differential effect of environmental conditions on the growth and regulation of the fumonisin biosynthetic gene FUM1 in the maize pathogens and fumonisin producers Fusarium verticillioides and Fusarium proliferatum | en_UK |
| dc.type | Article | en_UK |