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Front Microbiol

Title:		PpMID1 Plays a Role in the Asexual Development and Virulence of Phytophthora parasitica
Author(s):		Hwu FY; Lai MW; Liou RF;
Address:		"Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, National Taiwan UniversityTaipei, Taiwan"
Journal Title:		Front Microbiol
Year:		2017
Volume:		20170419
Issue:
Page Number:		610 -
DOI:		10.3389/fmicb.2017.00610
ISSN/ISBN:		1664-302X (Print) 1664-302X (Electronic) 1664-302X (Linking)
Abstract:		"Phytophthora parasitica is a notorious oomycete pathogen that causes severe disease in a wide variety of crop species. Infection of plants involves mainly its asexual life stage, including papillate sporangia and biflagellated zoospores, which are the primary dispersal and infection agents of this pathogen. Calcium signaling has been thought as the key regulator for sporangium formation and zoospore differentiation. However, not much is known about the molecular players involved in these processes. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, mating pheromone-induced death 1 (MID1) encodes a component of a putative calcium channel. Here, we identified and characterized the function of PpMID1, an MID1 homolog from P. parasitica. The expression of PpMID1 was high in sporangia. Gene silencing of PpMID1 resulted in the formation of sporangia that lacked papilla and showed a tendency for direct germination. Notably, in response to cold shock to induce zoospore formation, these sporangia showed no sign of cytoplasmic cleavage and thereby failed to form zoospores. Nonetheless, the addition of CaCl(2) or MgCl(2) partially recovered the silenced sporangia phenotype, with the formation of papillate sporangia similar to those of the wild type and the release of zoospores upon cold shock. As well, virulence toward Nicotiana benthamiana was reduced in the PpMID1-silenced transformants. These results indicate a role of PpMID1 in the asexual development and virulence of P. parasitica"
Keywords:		Mid1 Phytophthora asexual development calcium signaling sporangia;
Notes:		"PubMed-not-MEDLINEHwu, Fang-Yu Lai, Ming-Wei Liou, Ruey-Fen eng Switzerland 2017/05/05 Front Microbiol. 2017 Apr 19; 8:610. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.00610. eCollection 2017"