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Viruses Infecting the Plant Pathogenic Fungus Rhizoctonia solani

Viruses • 2019
العودة
معلومات البحث
المؤلفون Assane Hamidou Abdoulaye, Mohamed Frahat Foda, Ioly Kotta-Loizou
الكلمات المفتاحية Rhizoctonia solani; mycovirus; (+)/(−)ssRNA; dsRNA; hyper/hypovirulence; virus–host interactions
المجلة العلمية Viruses
الناشر Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
المجلد 11
العدد 12
الصفحات 1113
publication.type International
رابط البحث Open Link
المواد المرفقة Not Available
الملخص
The cosmopolitan fungus Rhizoctonia solani has a wide host range and is the causal agent of numerous crop diseases, leading to significant economic losses. To date, no cultivars showing complete resistance to R. solani have been identified and it is imperative to develop a strategy to control the spread of the disease. Fungal viruses, or mycoviruses, are widespread in all major groups of fungi and next-generation sequencing (NGS) is currently the most efficient approach for their identification. An increasing number of novel mycoviruses are being reported, including double-stranded (ds) RNA, circular single-stranded (ss) DNA, negative sense (−)ssRNA, and positive sense (+)ssRNA viruses. The majority of mycovirus infections are cryptic with no obvious symptoms on the hosts; however, some mycoviruses may alter fungal host pathogenicity resulting in hypervirulence or hypovirulence and are therefore potential biological control agents that could be used to combat fungal diseases. R. solani harbors a range of dsRNA and ssRNA viruses, either belonging to established families, such as Endornaviridae, Tymoviridae, Partitiviridae, and Narnaviridae, or unclassified, and some of them have been associated with hypervirulence or hypovirulence. Here we discuss in depth the molecular features of known viruses infecting R. solani and their potential as biological control agents.