Effector repertoire of Phytophthora betacei : in search of possible virulence factors responsible for its host specificity

Phytophthora betacei is an oomycete plant pathogen closely related to Phytophthora infestans. It infects tree tomato (Solanum betaceum) in northern South America, but is, under natural conditions, unable to infect potatoes or tomatoes, the main hosts of its sister species P. infestans. We characteri...

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Autores:
Rojas Estevez, Cindy Paola
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Fecha de publicación:
2021
Institución:
Universidad de los Andes
Repositorio:
Séneca: repositorio Uniandes
Idioma:
eng
OAI Identifier:
oai:repositorio.uniandes.edu.co:1992/51679
Acceso en línea:
http://hdl.handle.net/1992/51679
Palabra clave:
Oomicetes
Phytophthora
Parásitos en las plantas
Plantas parásitas
Patología vegetal
Genómica comparativa
Biología computacional
Relaciones planta-microbio
Biología
Rights
openAccess
License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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Summary:Phytophthora betacei is an oomycete plant pathogen closely related to Phytophthora infestans. It infects tree tomato (Solanum betaceum) in northern South America, but is, under natural conditions, unable to infect potatoes or tomatoes, the main hosts of its sister species P. infestans. We characterized, and compared the effector repertoires of P. betacei and other Phytophthora species. To this end, we used in silico approaches to predict and describe the repertoire of secreted proteins in Phytophthora species and determine unique and core effectors. P. betacei has the largest proteome and secretome of all Phytophthora species evaluated. We identified between 450 and 1933 candidate effector genes in P. ramorum, P. sojae, P. cactorum, P. parasitica, P. palmivora, P. infestans, and P. betacei genomes. The P. betacei predicted secretome contains 5653 proteins, 1126 of which are apoplastic effectors and 807cytoplasmic effectors.